Product Manager, Digital Assets

We are looking for a candidate with deep-seated experience in product design and development to join our team and help us build the future of financial services on blockchain technology. This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge products and services that will transform financial markets. DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) is an ambitious project: large-scale, complex and uses a range of blockchain architecture patterns, with numerous stakeholders (internal and external) and use cases.  The work is focused on the tokenisation of financial instruments, i.e. as digital assets. 

In this role, you will be responsible for defining and implementing product development for a suite of new infrastructure solutions and capabilities, as well as contributing to the development of LSEG’s brand and ecosystem in Digital Assets. We seek candidates with an interest in the financial markets with experience of working on large projects.  You will work closely with cross-functional teams across Capital Markets, Post-Trade, and Data & Analytics, as well as relevant functions, including Sales and Account Management, Strategy, and Technology to develop and innovative and market-leading products for our clients.

This is a chance to work on an innovative, intellectually challenging project backed by the influential reach of London Stock Exchange Group.

Role Responsibilities

• Support the blockchain product & operational design for tokenisation centric strategic products across the LSEG DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) programme.
• Be responsible for the product backlogs and steering prioritisation aligned to business needs, including prioritising user stories, features, and other work items.
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback. Translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Work with the development team to ensure that the delivered solutions meet the needs of the business, deliver and test new features and bug fixes.
• Resolve blockers and ensure that the product development process is running smoothly.
• Own product & customer documentation and align to standards, policies & best practices.
• Work closely with business, engineering, ops, central functions as well as customer & external stakeholders to ensure functional, commercial, product and operational design goals are met.
• Develop knowledge of blockchain & web3, capital markets and digital assets trends relevant to the components and capabilities they are responsible for.

Candidate Profile

• Experience as a Technical Business Analyst/Product Owner or a similar role.
• Extensive professional experience in product design & development
• Basic knowledge in distributed ledger technology (DLT), web3 and blockchain technology from product design, adoption as well as network and token design perspectives
• Delivery focused: Ability to work with cross functional teams to deliver high quality products that deliver tangible value to users on time and on budget
• Data driven: Ability to use data to inform product decisions, prioritise features and measure success
• Awareness: Commercial awareness and knowledge of financial services, financial markets and market structure, as well as the unique challenges faced by regulated players in the financial sector is desirable
• Communication: Excellent communicator who can interact with product teams, architecture, engineering teams, QA testers and UX designers
• Vision and creativity: Ability to foresee roadblocks, conceive intelligent solutions and contribute innovative ideas, as well as manage change and ambiguity effectively and confidently in consultation with the relevant stakeholders.
• Innovation: An interest in new technology and the ability to conceptualise and work with early-stage ideas
• Leadership: Ability to lead ownership of deliverables and work with stakeholders across the business to progress and achieve the relevant goals to ensure development, deployment & delivery is successful

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise shaping product & operational design, business requirements capture, technical requirements creation as well as established product methodology
• Strong experience leading product design as well as agile delivery & execution, and understanding of the product development life cycle and agile processes
• Experience with Jira and other project management tools
• Experience with requirements gathering and analysis techniques
• Experience with technical writing and documentation
• Experience working with blockchain/DLT/web3 technologies (e.g. Ethereum, Cosmos, Besu, Hyperledger etc)
• Experience working in financial services is desirable

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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