Crypto Technical Project Manager

Role: Crypto Technical Project Manager

Location: Southlake, TX ; Austin, TX

Duration: Contract

Job description:

Responsibilities:

Program Execution & CrossTeam Orchestration

• Own end-to-end execution of the Crypto Custody, Blockchain, and Tokenization roadmap.
• Orchestrate delivery across engineering, platform, security, SRE, risk, legal, compliance, and operations teams.
• Drive cross-functional dependency management with clarity, urgency, and accountability.
• Convert strategic priorities into sequenced, executable delivery plans.

AICentric Development Life Cycle (Primary Accountability)

• Lead adoption of an AI-centric development lifecycle across the Crypto program.
• Ensure teams leverage AI for planning, decomposition, design, documentation, reviews, dependency tracking, and risk surfacing.
• Establish GenAI as the default delivery accelerator across the program.
• Partner with engineering leaders to reduce manual effort, accelerate feedback cycles, and improve execution predictability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to use AI to simplify, accelerate, and de-risk delivery.

Technical Fluency & Execution Leadership

• Bring sufficient technical fluency across crypto custody, blockchain integrations, tokenization, security, DR, and operational readiness.
• Challenge plans with the right technical questions and ensure delivery reflects true implementation complexity.
• Reduce coordination burden on engineering leaders by managing cross-team execution complexity.

Risk, Readiness & Governance Management

• Proactively identify and manage delivery, technical, security, regulatory, and sequencing risks.
• Ensure architecture, security, risk, and readiness reviews happen early and with intent.
• Drive clarity on go-live criteria, cutover and rollback planning, and operational readiness checkpoints.
• Align with SRE and Custody leads to meet institutional-grade reliability and readiness standards.

Operating Cadence & Executive Communication

• Establish and run a disciplined program operating cadence.
• Deliver executive-ready updates focused on progress, outcomes, risks, mitigations, and decisions required.
• Use AI-assisted reporting to improve signal quality while reducing overhead.
• Ensure leadership has a clear, accurate, and decision-oriented view of the program at all times.

Qualifications:

Core Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical program or project management within complex platform and enterprise technology environments.
• Proven track record of leading execution across high-risk, regulated, or security-sensitive platforms and initiatives.
• Strong ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments while maintaining rigorous delivery discipline.
• Demonstrated credibility and confidence in working closely with senior engineers, architects, and executive stakeholders.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex topics clearly and effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within AI-assisted or AI-led delivery models.
• Prior exposure to crypto custody, blockchain, or broader financial services platforms.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with security, risk, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Strong systems-thinking capability, with the ability to connect technology, process, risk, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.