Program Manager

CoinDesk; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

CoinDesk in New York City is seeking a Program Manager to lead the Change & Delivery team. This role will drive cross-functional programs across technology, operations, and product, ensuring alignment on priorities and removing blockers.

You will partner with senior leaders to define scope, manage dependencies, and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced, regulated digital asset environment, with onsite work at NYC four days per week.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in program or project management, with a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience managing large-scale technology and operational integrations in a post‑M&A context.
• Proven hands-on delivery and problem solving, able to lead from the front.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program delivery for complex, multi-workstream initiatives across technology, operations, compliance, and product teams.
• Establish and maintain program governance frameworks, including status reporting, RAID management, steering committees, and milestone tracking.
• Partner with senior stakeholders and leadership to define scope, prioritise deliverables, and ensure strategic alignment across initiatives.
• Drive dependency management and risk mitigation across programs, escalating issues to protect delivery.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product, legal, compliance, and operations to deliver integrated outcomes.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, resource allocation models, and delivery roadmaps.
• Introduce and embed best practices for program management within Change & Delivery; raise delivery discipline.
• Provide clear reporting on program status, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Delivery leadership

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Reports To

Director - PMO, Change & Delivery

Position Overview

We are looking for a Program Manager to join our NYC-based Change & Delivery team. This role will lead complex, cross-functional programs across the business, providing structure and governance to strategic initiatives that span technology, operations, and product. You will work closely with senior stakeholders across multiple teams to drive delivery from inception through execution, ensuring alignment on priorities, managing dependencies, and removing blockers. Your contribution will directly impact how Bullish scales its regulated digital asset exchange platform, and you will play a central role in shaping how the organisation delivers change. This is a highly visible position suited to someone who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments and wants to make a tangible impact at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets.

This position will be required to work onsite at our NYC office a minimum of 4 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program delivery for complex, multi-workstream initiatives across technology, operations, compliance, and product teams
• Establish and maintain program governance frameworks, including status reporting, RAID management, steering committees, and milestone tracking
• Partner with senior stakeholders and leadership to define scope, prioritise deliverables, and ensure strategic alignment across competing initiatives
• Drive dependency management and risk mitigation across programs, proactively identifying and escalating issues before they impact delivery
• Strategic and hands‑on — able to set direction and influence at a senior level while being close enough to execution to unblock workstreams and drive delivery directly.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product, legal, compliance, and operations teams to deliver integrated outcomes
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, resource allocation models, and delivery roadmaps
• Introduce and embed best practices for program and project management within the Change & Delivery function, raising the bar for delivery discipline across the organisation
• Provide clear, concise, and accurate reporting to senior leadership on program status, risks, and outcomes

Experience & Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in program or project management, with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Experience managing large-scale technology and operational integrations in a post-M&A context, including workstream coordination, system consolidation, and cross‑entity alignment.
• Proven hands‑on approach to delivery and problem solving — you lead from the front, not from behind a slide deck, experienced with tools such as Confluence, JIRA
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to articulate complex topics clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to operate at both high-level strategy and granular execution
• Experience providing structure and governance in ambiguous, fast-moving, or non-structured working environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

• Background in cryptocurrency, digital assets, securities, or tokenisation
• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment
• Familiarity with exchange platforms, trading infrastructure, or fintech ecosystems
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification (not required but valued)

Benefits

Bullish US LLC & CoinDesk Inc. are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $200,000 - $250,000 + discretionary annual target bonus + performance incentives/benefits. Offered salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and commensurate experience.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

In an effort to attract, retain, develop and promote the most qualified individuals, CoinDesk is committed to treating all applicants and employees in a nondiscriminatory manner with respect to the terms and conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status/service, physical or mental disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law. This mandate governs all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, promotion, training, education, social and recreation programs, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits.

ACCOMMODATION

CoinDesk is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application process, please send an e-mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request.