A leading financial institution is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to build a new product area focused on digital assets. This is a contract position based in Roy, Utah, with a minimum duration of 6+ months. You will join a small, focused team exploring and developing the next generation of financial products involving digital assets, including stablecoins, cryptocurrency, tokenization, blockchain-enabled payments, and other emerging financial technologies.
This role requires a hands-on Product Manager comfortable working in an emerging space where the roadmap is still being developed. The ideal candidate has experience taking new products from 0 to 1—from initial concept and business case through development, launch, and market adoption—and can combine product strategy with execution.
Responsibilities
- Own the development of new digital asset products and capabilities from concept through launch.
- Identify and evaluate opportunities involving digital assets, stablecoins, tokenization, blockchain-enabled payments, and related emerging financial technologies.
- Take new product ideas from 0 to 1, including opportunity identification, market validation, business case development, product definition, implementation, and go-to-market.
- Develop product vision, strategy, roadmaps, requirements, and success metrics.
- Research customer and member needs, market trends, competitors, emerging technologies, and regulatory developments to identify new opportunities.
- Build compelling business cases and recommendations for new products and investments.
- Translate strategic opportunities and customer needs into practical product requirements and executable plans.
- Partner closely with technology, operations, risk, legal, compliance, marketing, and other stakeholders throughout product development.
- Evaluate potential technology platforms, vendors, fintech partners, and other external ecosystem participants.
- Ensure products are designed with scalability, security, regulatory compliance, operational readiness, customer experience, and long-term sustainability in mind.
- Develop go-to-market strategies and support successful product launches and adoption.
- Establish and monitor KPIs and other measures of product performance.
- Communicate product strategy, opportunities, risks, recommendations, and progress effectively to senior leadership.
- Serve as a subject matter resource on digital asset trends, products, competitors, and emerging opportunities.
- Operate effectively in an evolving environment where priorities, technologies, regulations, and market opportunities may change quickly.
Qualifications
- Required
- Significant product management experience, preferably within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience successfully taking a new product or business capability from concept to launch ("0 to 1").
- Strong understanding of product strategy, market analysis, business case development, product roadmaps, go-to-market strategy, and product lifecycle management.
- Strong knowledge of, experience with, or demonstrated passion for digital assets and blockchain-enabled financial services.
- Familiarity with areas such as cryptocurrency, stablecoins, tokenization, digital wallets/custody, blockchain infrastructure, or emerging payment technologies.
- Experience working across business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, legal, and other cross-functional teams.
- Ability to evaluate an emerging market, identify opportunities, and translate those opportunities into actionable product strategies.
- Strong business and financial acumen; experience developing financial models, business cases, or P&L-based product decisions is highly desirable.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and taking ownership without an established playbook.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Preferred
- Product management experience within banking, credit unions, payments, fintech, or digital assets.
- Direct experience developing products involving stablecoins, tokenized assets/deposits, cryptocurrency, blockchain-based payments, digital custody, or related technologies.
- Understanding of financial-services risk and regulatory considerations, including areas such as KYC/