Digital Assets and Crypto, Product Owner

Role: Digital Assets and Crypto, Product Owner

Location: Westlake, TX ; Austin, TX ; Southlake, TX

Duration: Long term Contract

Responsibilities:

Digital Assets Product Ownership

• Own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for digital asset posting, books and records, and lifecycle servicing.
• Define business workflows for trade capture, posting, reconciliation, reporting, and exception management.
• Bring a strong understanding of the trade lifecycle, with relevant experience in custody and settlement operations.

Business Workflow & Books-and-Records Expertise

• Act as the business owner for how digital assets flow through books and records.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure crypto activity is accurately posted, reconciled daily, and audit-ready.
• Ensure product design aligns with regulatory, accounting, and tax reporting requirements.
• Embed appropriate controls into workflows in partnership with Legal, Compliance, and Risk.

AI-First Product Practice (Core Expectation)

• Use autonomous agents as a core tool for discovery, specification, validation, and communication.
• Apply AI-assisted tooling to:
• Break epics into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
• Draft PRDs, business rules, and workflow diagrams
• Summarize stakeholder input, meeting notes, and regulatory materials
• Prepare executive-ready summaries and decision memos
• Partner closely with TPM and engineering to support a multi-step, AI-centric development lifecycle (AI-DLC) with agent-assisted delivery.
• Continuously identify ways AI can simplify, accelerate, and de-risk product and operational workflows.

Stakeholder Orchestration & Delivery

• Serve as the primary business product lead across teams, including coordination with multiple Scrum teams where required.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint reviews, roadmap reviews, and stakeholder demos.
• Align roadmap priorities with delivery sequencing, dependencies, and risk management.
• Own business go-live readiness, including runbooks, UAT, and post-launch health.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented updates to senior leadership.

Qualifications:

Core Qualification

• 6+ years of experience in product ownership or product management within financial services, custody, banking, or capital markets.
• Strong understanding of books and records, including posting and reconciliation workflows.
• Demonstrated fluency in using agentic AI tools to support discovery, content development, analysis, and stakeholder synthesis.
• Ability to translate complex technical and regulatory concepts into clear, actionable business requirements.
• Experience operating in regulated environments, with close partnership across Risk, Compliance, and Legal functions.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across the digital assets ecosystem, including crypto custody, blockchain platforms, stablecoins, and related market infrastructure.
• Sound understanding of on-chain concepts such as wallets, key management, transaction fees, confirmations, staking, and bridging.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted delivery models and their application across product, engineering, or operational workflows.
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to influence outcomes effectively across teams and stakeholders without direct authority.