Senior Director, Technical Product Manager - Digital Assets

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 136,500 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Product Manager for their Digital Assets team based in New York, NY. This role involves delivering key Digital Asset Custody capabilities and driving product development from requirements to execution.

The ideal candidate will have over 15 years of experience in product management and 4 years in digital asset custody, with strong technical fluency. Join a collaborative environment ensuring compliance and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in product management or technical product management.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with digital asset custody.
• Ability to work with engineers on APIs/integrations and troubleshoot issues.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery for key Digital Asset Custody capabilities.
• Write detailed product requirements and partner with engineering.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Technology, Operations, and Risk.

Skills

Product management

Digital asset custody

Technical fluency

Operational risk management

Strong communication skills

Job description

Senior Director, Technical Product Manager - Digital Assets

Job Description

We’reseeking a future team member for the role ofProductDevelopmentManagerto join ourDigitalAssets team.This roleis located inNew York, NY.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

Drive delivery for key Digital Asset Custody capabilities (wallet services, key management, and operating workflows) by translating outcomes into clear requirements and a prioritized backlog.

Write detailed product requirements, define acceptance criteria, and partner with engineering to estimate, sequence, and deliver custody features such as deposits/withdrawals, transfers, whitelisting, approvals, entitlements, and reporting.

Work day-to-day with Compliance, Technology, Operations, and Risk to refine requirements, document control needs, and ensure custody releases meet client commitments and regulatory expectations.

• Partner with engineers and architects to evolve custody services and integrations (APIs/events) to trading, settlement, and accounting platforms, with attention to resiliency, auditability, and operational controls.
• Contribute to custody security and control design by capturing control requirements in stories, partnering on threat/risk reviews, and supporting evidence collection for audits (e.g., MPC/HSM usage, access governance, segregation of duties).
• Own end-to-end feature delivery across custody workflows including UAT support, runbooks, and go-live readiness with operations.

Support build-vs-buy evaluations by gathering requirements, comparing vendor capabilities, and documenting tradeoffs across security, regulatory expectations, resilience, cost, and time to market.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

15+ years of experience in product management or technical product management, ideally within financial services, or market infrastructure.

4+ years of hands-on experience with digital asset custody, wallet infrastructure, or adjacent market infrastructure supporting settlement and safekeeping.

Hands-on technical fluency: ability to work with engineers on APIs/integrations, read logs and metrics, and use data to validate outcomes and troubleshooting issues.

Strong understanding of:

Digital asset custody operating models, safeguarding expectations, and control frameworks

Wallet types and architectures (hot/warm/cold), transaction lifecycle, and blockchain network mechanics (fees, finality, reorgs)

Key management and cryptography concepts, including MPC and HSMs, key ceremonies, backup/recovery, and secure signing

Operational risk topics for custody: approvals/entitlements, travel rule considerations, reconciliation, auditability, and incident response

Experience supporting multiple blockchain networks and asset types, with a pragmatic approach to adding new networks safely.

Experience delivering secure, resilient, and auditable software in regulated environments, including strong SDLC practices, change management, and operational readiness.

Proven experience delivering platform products end-to-end, translating complex technical concepts into clear roadmaps, requirements, and prioritized backlogs.

• Execution focused with experience working with multi-disciplinary teams comprising product managers, designers, and engineers.
• Strong communication skills with ability to gather requirements across cross-functional partners.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $136,500 and $300,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

• Locations 240 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, 10286, US BNY Mellon Center, Boston, MA, 02108, US