DLT Product Director

JOB SUMMARY

• This role could be based in Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.
• A senior-level product manager and leader who’s experienced in turning ideas into seamless and intuitive product experiences. You are well-versed in planning, designing, scaling, and commercialising products and know how to test, validate, and optimize through the product life cycle. Products need to be designed with a client focus and with strong business acumen to prioritize and deliver against competing asks. You will influence and inspire indirect teams to deliver positive outcomes with executional excellence. If you are a creative problem solver, love tackling complex challenges and building things from 0 to 1 and beyond, this role is for you.
• The role includes product management, governance, and product commercialization activities to support the Digital Assets goals of the business and build readiness for scale. The person will also be a “go-to” contact for education, thought leadership, and Digital Assets related product knowledge.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• You will support the commercialization and development of innovative blockchain and digital asset solutions that have strategic fit and value to the Bank’s clients

Business

• You will identify opportunities through client conversations, demand from other business lines and your understanding of market trends to determine what will be the most impactful products and features we should be building. You will do so by instilling customer-centric discovery and design methods, implementing strategic experimentation and garnering stakeholder buy-in
• You will be responsible for leading the product work for one or more of our key strategic initiatives by driving strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines. You will drive the end-to-end product development from opportunity assessment, ideation, validation, and delivery to ongoing optimization.

Processes

• Use modern productivity tools such as ADO, Teams, Slack, Trello, Mural, Jira, 
• Confluence
• You will influence the tech stack, data model, APIs, platform, and system architecture, while determining when best to build, buy or borrow new technologies and 3rd party integrations

People & Talent

• You will influence, inspire and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (e.g. technology, compliance, operations, marketing, legal, etc.) and other business stakeholders to establish a shared vision for Digital Assets products.

Risk Management

• You are resourceful and results oriented. You find a way to get things done without sacrificing quality and integrity. 

Governance

• You will ensure all governance requirements are understood and met during the product development lifecycle, including but not limited to on-boarding 3rd parties, co-ordinating Consolidated Risk Assessments, managing prioritization for tech teams and ensuring adequate testing is completed.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

• Businesses across CIB – specifically TB Cash, FM FSS, Digital Assets CoE
• Compliance – Product and CIB Platform and Partnerships, Financial Crime and Surveillance Operations
• Legal – Product and CIB Platform and Partnerships
• Technology – Primarily DLT Technology Hive, but other product technology as well
• Vendor and Third Party Partners

Our Ideal candidate

• Strong blockchain/web3 product management experience while being familiar in related business areas such as custody, trading, payments
• 10 years of experience working in financial services and/or enterprise fintech in a product development role ideally dealing with emerging technologies.
• Track record of building and bringing Digital Asset solutions to market that deliver measurable impact for the customer and the business
• Capable of dissecting and understanding complex problems, simplifying them into clear hypotheses and developing executable solutions
• Understand technology trends in Digital and provide insight & analysis to the implications to Digital product and channel partner
• Highly organized, analytical, data-obsessed and process driven
• Highly effective communicator who can work with multi-jurisdictional, cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams
• Certifications – Relevant technology or crypto/blockchain certifications

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong blockchain/web3 product management experience while being familiar in related
• Experience working in financial services and/or enterprise fintech in a product development role ideally dealing with emerging technologies.
• ADO, Teams, Slack, Trello, Mural, Jira, Confluence
• Process Management    
• Business Writing & Communication
• Presentation and PowerPoint skills  

About Standard Chartered

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies – everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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