Senior Technical Product Owner: Digital Assets & Blockchain

Apex Systems; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESPP

401K

HSA

EAP (8 free counseling sessions)

Discount program

Job summary

Everforth Apex in New York, NY, seeks a SVP - Technical Product Owner to lead the roadmap for digital asset infrastructure and tokenization, combining deep technical expertise with product leadership to shape blockchain-enabled financial market solutions.

You will drive settlement optimisation, interoperability, and cross-border connectivity while collaborating with engineering, risk, legal, and operations to deliver production-ready features.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, blockchain platforms, and digital asset solution design.
• Strong experience in technical product management and roadmap ownership.
• Experience with tokenization, blockchain settlement, and institutional digital asset workflows.
• Knowledge of zero-knowledge proofs, Layer 2 scaling, and confidentiality solutions.
• Experience delivering solutions in banking or highly regulated financial services environments.
• Familiarity with FIX integration, CBPR+, and market connectivity standards.
• Experience leading R&D, innovation initiatives, and cross-functional product delivery.
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering or LLM-enabled development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy by owning and evolving the roadmap for digital asset infrastructure and tokenization capabilities.
• Drive innovation across blockchain scalability, confidentiality, interoperability, and settlement optimisation.
• Build institutional-grade solutions supporting tokenized assets, digital cash, and regulated transaction flows.
• Advance settlement capabilities for DvP, PvP, and next-generation settlement models.
• Partner with engineering, risk, legal, compliance, operations, and business teams to productionise solutions.
• Enhance client connectivity with market-standard integrations like FIX and CBPR+.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear product requirements and priorities.
• Contribute to standards and interoperability frameworks; explore AI-assisted engineering.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Stakeholder management

Innovation leadership

Organizational skills

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent

Tools

Ethereum

Solidity

Smart contracts

Layer 2

FIX integration

CBPR+

Job description

Everforth Apex in New York, NY, seeks a SVP - Technical Product Owner to lead the roadmap for digital asset infrastructure and tokenization, combining deep technical expertise with product leadership to shape blockchain-enabled financial market solutions.

You will drive settlement optimisation, interoperability, and cross-border connectivity while collaborating with engineering, risk, legal, and operations to deliver production-ready features.