The Role Responsibilities

The Role

• A senior-level product manager and leader who\xe2\x80\x99s 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 \xe2\x80\x9cgo-to\xe2\x80\x9d contact for education, thought leadership, and Digital Assets related product knowledge.

Other things about you

• You enjoy tackling complex problems hands on and are eager to find solutions that don\xe2\x80\x99t exist yet
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and can \xe2\x80\x9cfigure things out\xe2\x80\x9d.
• You are resourceful and results oriented. You find a way to get things done without sacrificing quality and integrity.
• You have a strong growth mindset and operate with an open mind. You constantly think about how things can improve.
• You are a radical collaborator and put the success of the team before your own. You err on the side of inclusion and transparent communication.

Principal Responsibilities

• You will support the commercialization and development of innovative blockchain and digital asset solutions that have strategic fit and value to the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s clients
• 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
• 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 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.
• You will influence the tech stack, data model, APIs, platform, and system architecture, while determine when best to build, buy or borrow new technologies and 3rd party integrations

Strategy

• Awareness of business goals and strategy in terms of delivering DLT and API solutions.

Business

• Awareness of general industry standards and practices for DLT and API. Staying on top of market trends and evolution of the Digital Assets ecosystem.

Processes

• Ability to quickly learn and become aware of the processes within the Bank to assure successful and risk-free solution delivery

People and Talent

• Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders in order to develop and commercialize products in the DLT space

Risk Management

• Responsible for monitoring and assuring that design solutions or implementations are risk-free. In scenarios, where risk cannot be avoided, be responsible to identify and highlight it to the appropriate stakeholders

Governance

• Responsibilities relating to the direction, planning, structure, frameworks (e.g. processes and policies) and oversight. For example, Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group\xe2\x80\x99s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas; Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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.
• Lead the product management team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• DCDA management
• Financial Markets Digital Assets teams including Financing and Security Services
• Transaction Banking
• CCIB Technology
• CCIB compliance

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in the Open Banking team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); [List all responsibilities associated with the role]

Our Ideal Candidate

• Strong blockchain/web3 product management experience while being familiar in related business areas such as custody, trading, payments
• 10 plus 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

Role Specific Competencies

• Product Management
• Business Development
• Project Management
• Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology
• Product Design and Development
• Product Development Life Cycle

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• 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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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