CoinDesk

Senior Technical Project Manager (NYC)

CoinDesk$190K — $220K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in project coordination, business analysis, or COO functions in financial services or fintech.
  • Able to navigate ambiguity and drive results with little supervision.
  • Strong business understanding of finance, operations, or trading workflows.
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Pragmatic and resourceful problem-solver in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficient with project management tools like Jira or MS Project.
  • Intellectually curious about technology and platform systems.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate project delivery across workstreams, ensuring milestones are met.
  • Engage with stakeholders to refine business requirements and propose solutions.
  • Prepare and maintain project documentation for senior leadership.
  • Facilitate working sessions and meetings to ensure team alignment.
  • Support business analysis by mapping processes and translating needs into specifications.
  • Track dependencies and competing priorities within the COO Office.
  • Contribute to developing project management frameworks and governance practices.
  • Act as a liaison between business and technology teams.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence the scaling of infrastructure and regulatory compliance initiatives.
  • Exceptional visibility working closely with senior leaders.
  • Career development in a fast-moving fintech environment.
  • Chance to work in a regulated digital assets exchange.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
Full Job Description
Reports to:
Director - PMO, Change & Delivery

Position Overview

Bullish is redefining the capital markets infrastructure by bridging traditional equity systems with blockchain-based tokenization. To drive this vision forward, we are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to bring the core business platform & services of a blue-chip, financial institution into Bullish's advanced technical ecosystem. You will own the end-to-end delivery of complex, high-stakes engineering projects and large-scale data migrations into our modern architecture.

This is a highly unique and impactful opportunity. The work you do here will directly impact the future state of our combined business, and position Bullish as an enduring leader in the next chapter of capital markets infrastructure. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

Technical Program Execution:
  • Design the roadmap and execution plan for the platform build out. Work closely with geo-distributed, cross-functional teams to transform architectural concepts into actionable, scheduled engineering backlogs.
  • Establish clear migration roadmaps, sequencing plans, and cutover strategies to migrate core business services from legacy environments without disrupting active financial operations.
  • Manage technical project scopes, delivery schedules, and resource allocations using modern Agile, Scrum, and Kanban frameworks.


Architecture Alignment & Data Strategy:
  • Drive complex data migration initiatives transferring high-volume PII, sensitive financial records, and historical transaction datasets from multiple legacy systems into Bullish's secure, scalable infrastructure while ensuring zero loss of data integrity and adhering to local regulations.
  • Partner closely with Staff Engineers, Systems Architects, and Data Engineers to review data schemas, API contracts, ETL pipeline architectures, and cloud storage designs.
  • Work with Security teams to ensure all data migration workflows adhere to strict encryption, auditing, and access control requirements.
  • Identify technical debt, legacy dependencies, and architectural risks early, driving alignment on technical trade-offs and mitigation strategies.


Stakeholder Management & Communication
  • Act as the primary technical bridge between executive leadership, engineering, product, design, legal, compliance, and risk teams across both businesses.
  • Translate intricate regulatory requirements and technical risks into clear executive summaries and operational dashboards for senior leadership.
  • Maintain transparent project health metrics, dependencies trackers, and risk matrices.


Process Optimization & Governance
  • Work with Engineering Leads to drive continuous improvement across sprint planning, dependency mapping, and release management processes across multiple engineering tracks.
  • Define and track key quantitative delivery metrics (e.g., velocity, migration accuracy rates, system latency, burndown metrics).
  • Organize post-mortems and retrospectives to capture key insights and optimize repeatable integration frameworks for future business expansion.


Experience & Qualifications:
  • Experience:6+ years of direct experience as a Technical Program/Project Manager leading software engineering, platform modernizations, or complex infrastructure integrations.
  • Domain Expertise:Proven experience delivering technical projects within regulated financial platforms & services (FinTech, capital markets, banking, or crypto/digital assets).
  • Data Migration Experience:Demonstrated hands-on leadership of large-scale data migrations involving regulated datasets across disparate systems; PII, financial transaction records, etc.
  • Technical Background:Knowledge in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), microservices architecture, distributed databases, APIs, and data security frameworks.
  • Methodologies:Agile development methodologies and enterprise tools (Jira, Confluence, Linear).
  • Education:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent technical experience.


Preferred:
  • Prior experience navigating M&A integrations, technical consolidation or migration, or system deprecation efforts.
  • Industry certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Cloud Practitioner.
  • Familiarity with financial compliance frameworks (ITIL, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, AML/KYC systems, PCI-DSS).


Bullish US LLC & CoinDesk Inc. are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $190,000 - $220,000 + discretionary annual target bonus + performance incentives/benefits. Offered salary will be reflective of job-related knowledge, skills, and commensurate experience.

About CoinDesk

CoinDesk is a media company that covers news and analysis on the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries. The company was founded in 2013 by Shakil Khan. CoinDesk's website provides news, analysis, and data on cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and related topics. The company also hosts conferences and events related to the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries. CoinDesk's clients include investors, traders, and other professionals in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries.
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