Director, Technical Product Manager - Digital Assets

BNY Mellon

$150K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in product management within financial services or market infrastructure.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience with digital asset custody or related market infrastructure.
  • Technical fluency with the ability to collaborate with engineers.
  • Deep understanding of custody operating models, wallet types, and blockchain mechanics.
  • Experience with key management and operational risk topics for custody services.
  • Proven record of delivering secure, auditable software in regulated environments.
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to engage cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Drive delivery for key Digital Asset Custody capabilities by translating outcomes into backlog.
  • Write detailed product requirements and collaborate with engineering for feature delivery.
  • Coordinate with Compliance, Technology, and Operations to refine custody requirements.
  • Partner with engineers to enhance custody service integrations with trading platforms.
  • Capture control requirements and support audit evidence collection for custody security.
  • Manage end-to-end feature delivery across custody workflows including UAT and go-live readiness.
  • Conduct build-vs-buy evaluations, assessing security, regulatory needs, and vendor options.

Benefits

  • Access to flexible global resources for personal growth.
  • Generous paid leaves, including volunteer time.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • 401(k) plan participation with company sponsorship.
  • Strong culture of excellence and pay-for-performance philosophy.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Product Development Manager to join our Digital Assets team. This role is located in New York, NY

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:
  • Drive delivery for key Digital Asset Custody capabilities (wallet services, key management, and operating workflows) by translating outcomes into clear requirements and a prioritized backlog.
  • Write detailed product requirements, define acceptance criteria, and partner with engineering to estimate, sequence, and deliver custody features such as deposits/withdrawals, transfers, whitelisting, approvals, entitlements, and reporting.
  • Work day-to-day with Compliance, Technology, Operations, and Risk to refine requirements, document control needs, and ensure custody releases meet client commitments and regulatory expectations.
  • Partner with engineers and architects to evolve custody services and integrations (APIs/events) to trading, settlement, and accounting platforms, with attention to resiliency, auditability, and operational controls.
  • Contribute to custody security and control design by capturing control requirements in stories, partnering on threat/risk reviews, and supporting evidence collection for audits (e.g., MPC/HSM usage, access governance, segregation of duties).
  • Own end-to-end feature delivery across custody workflows including UAT support, runbooks, and go-live readiness with operations.
  • Support build-vs-buy evaluations by gathering requirements, comparing vendor capabilities, and documenting tradeoffs across security, regulatory expectations, resilience, cost, and time to market.

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:
  • 12+ years of experience in product management or technical product management, ideally within financial services, or market infrastructure.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience with digital asset custody, wallet infrastructure, or adjacent market infrastructure supporting settlement and safekeeping.
  • Hands-on technical fluency: ability to work with engineers on APIs/integrations, read logs and metrics, and use data to validate outcomes and troubleshooting issues.
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Digital asset custody operating models, safeguarding expectations, and control frameworks
    • Wallet types and architectures (hot/warm/cold), transaction lifecycle, and blockchain network mechanics (fees, finality, reorgs)
    • Key management and cryptography concepts, including MPC and HSMs, key ceremonies, backup/recovery, and secure signing
    • Operational risk topics for custody: approvals/entitlements, travel rule considerations, reconciliation, auditability, and incident response
  • Experience supporting multiple blockchain networks and asset types, with a pragmatic approach to adding new networks safely.
  • Experience delivering secure, resilient, and auditable software in regulated environments, including strong SDLC practices, change management, and operational readiness.
  • Proven experience delivering platform products end-to-end, translating complex technical concepts into clear roadmaps, requirements, and prioritized backlogs.
  • Execution focused with experience working with multi-disciplinary teams comprising product managers, designers, and engineers.
  • Strong communication skills with ability to gather requirements across cross-functional partners.


Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee's eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an "at will" position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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