Squad Leader, Blockchain & Trading

Soteriare; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Squad Leader for Blockchain & Trading, offering a unique opportunity to lead innovative projects in digital assets. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and deliver cutting-edge crypto custody solutions and trading platforms. You will guide a talented team, ensuring alignment on objectives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high-quality execution. If you're passionate about blockchain technology and eager to make a significant impact in the financial sector, this position is perfect for you. Join a dynamic team dedicated to shaping the future of finance and delivering exceptional value to clients.

Benefits

Comprehensive Health Care Coverage

Emotional Well-being Support

Market-leading Retirement

Generous Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Charitable Giving Employee Match Program

Educational Assistance

Tuition Reimbursement

Learning Resources

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management with a focus on trading and blockchain.
• Experience with trading models, algorithms, and portfolio management.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of blockchain and trading platforms, ensuring high-quality execution.
• Manage product backlog and align team efforts with business objectives.

Skills

Product Management

Blockchain Technology

Trading Platforms

Agile Methodologies

Interpersonal Skills

Leadership

Roadmap Management

Backlog Ownership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Job description

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Job Description:

Squad Leader – Blockchain & Trading | Fidelity Digital Assets℠

Fidelity Digital Assets ℠ (FDA) is dedicated to building products and services that help institutions adopt digital assets and innovate within the increasingly digital world of finance. Fidelity Investments began researching blockchain technology and digital assets solutions in 2014, where years of research and development have provided us with the deep expertise necessary to build the future of finance. As a Blockchain & Trading Squad Leader (Product Owner) on the FDA Product Delivery team you would have the opportunity to directly contribute towards this future.

The Role

We’re looking for a team-focused Product Owner with phenomenal interpersonal skills that will work collaboratively across business and technology teams. This role has the unique opportunity to design and deliver crypto custody, digital asset wallets, and blockchain solutions.

The Product Owner for this team will ensure alignment on 'what' and 'when' work is to be performed through continuous planning and management of a roadmap that serves the FDA Product and Operations teams. You partner to reconcile cross-squad dependencies while taking ownership of the product backlog that enables effective delivery. You work closely with your delivery team, in an agile structure, to deliver trading solutions that drive efficiency and effectiveness against defined product objectives and the squad mission. You engage squad members for their input, deliver on sprint commitments, continuously improve, innovate, experiment, learn and celebrate success. You ensure releases are of the highest quality and are implemented seamlessly by ensuring business readiness. You are committed to developing others and yourself to ensure the latest thinking and knowledge is integrated into the culture of the squad.

This role requires a dedicated, committed, and passionate leader who is able to:

• Design and lead delivery of a platform involving blockchains, trading, and portfolio management.
• Inspire and empower the squad through a shared mission and roadmap that aligns the work they do and the value they deliver to the partners they support.
• Guide the team by serving as the voice of the client/partner towards high value, high quality execution.
• Clearly communicate impediments, progress, and results against established objectives.
• Establish KPI’s to measure progress agreed upon business, technology, and people results.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Technology Engineering Management and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability that cultivates a growth mindset.
• Make informed decisions to balance quality, cost, and timeline constraints.
• Improve value delivery and delivery excellence from planning through implementation.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA a plus.
• 7+ years of combined product management experience working with trading, blockchain technologies, financial services, technology, and/or leading Agile teams.
• Experience with trading platforms, trading models & algorithms, and/or portfolio management required.
• Cryptocurrency, blockchain, and/or decentralized finance (DeFi) interest, knowledge and/or experience required.
• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred.
• Roadmap Management - skilled at defining and managing roadmaps that align business, data, and technology objectives by using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand, sequence and prioritize needs.
• Discovery - crafting current/future state diagrams, process flows, use cases that position prioritized areas for delivery success.
• Planning – experience planning across teams for dependency alignment and facilitating quarterly planning activities that effectively break down work towards sprint goals.
• Backlog Ownership – owns the backlog to ensure epics and stories are clear and concise with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria. Ensure backlog readiness for upcoming sprints.
• Quality Execution – attention to detail with unwavering dedication to quality that is not limited to sign off. Ensure business readiness that ultimately delivers a seamless implementation.
• Partnerships - develop positive relationships and champion a collaborative team environment.
• Leadership – demonstrated expertise of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams.
• Management – able to delegate, coach and deliver feedback to Business Analysts and/or Associate Product Owners that may report directly to you. Prioritize management responsibilities and support that cultivates associate growth and career development.

The Team

The FDA Product Delivery team is central to enhancing and delivering platform capabilities that serve FDA Institutional clients and platform consumers to offer Digital Asset products to their customers. Members of our team are highly dynamic, team-oriented and partner with each other, business partners and their squads. We lead by example, seek to continuously improve, deliver creative solutions that solve complex challenges and/or advance the business, and seek to increase the value we provide through our product delivery practice.

The base salary range for this position is $85,000-$179,000 per year.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.