Senior Product Manager Custody and Regulatory

Since being founded in 2018 Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody collateral management and prime services.

Led by Amar Kuchinad Coppers Global CEO the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Coppers offering is MultiParty Computation (MPC) technology the gold standard in secure custody. Coppers multiaward winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody.

Built on top of this stateoftheart custody ClearLoop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering connecting global exchanges and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPCsecured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures ClearLoop is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital.

In addition to industryleading security certifications Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A rated insurer positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets.

Department environment

With a set of market leading products in custody settlement clearing liquidity access and our position as a leading infrastructure provider in the industry Copper is well placed to become a pillar of future digital and tokenised assets industry. Your purpose at Copper is to be at the centre of various products and services orchestrate internal systems apply your skill and knowledge to establish or maintain our market leadership and deliver on other objectives.

Role Purpose:

The Senior Product Manager will support the operation continuous improvement and support of our Custody services alongside upcoming Regulatory and/or Compliance changes.

You will collaborate with Prime and Platform product functions as well as crossfunctional departments to enable the strategic innovation and development of our platform and services.

Key Responsibilities of the role

• Collaborate crossfunctionally with
  • Commercial finance and operations teams on a shared vision and steer on that vision
  • Legal and compliance teams to understandregulatory developments in digital assets andensure the regulatory compliance of our Custody platform across all relevant jurisdictions
  • Engineering other product leads strategic vendors/partners. to continuously improves the resilience quality and interoperability of our Custody platform
• Assess potential risk associated with our products from development through launch and lifecycle management. Implement strategies to minimize these risks to ensure product safety compliance and customer satisfaction.
• Manage and maintain product and development boards ensuring the
  development process is running according to our policies and procedures.
• Understand Copper products exceptionally well and lead discussions with senior stakeholders throughout the business
• Continually research the industry and the market to ensure that we are building thebest in class products and supporting the business with their challenges.
• Communicate with clients and the organisation effectively. As a hightouch B2B solution provider we rely on direct client communication for a lot of ideas and feedback we receive on our current and future products

Your experience skills and knowledge

• Experience across financial servicesworking in product teams or within technology functions as a senior analyst withan interest in the impact of regulations across the digital assets
• Knowledge of blockchain technology coupled with keen interest in latest developments in the digital asset ecosystem.
• Solid knowledge about product development life cycle and experience involved at various stages including requirement review UI/UX design test case review production support.
• Analyse and define business processes to identify gaps and operational improvements considering opportunities and potential agreement from senior management by clearly communicating the benefits of your recommendations across departments and help to address any uncertainty or concern.
• Drive business decisions through relevant data analysis producing written documentation to support your work report on your findings and to present to stakeholders when necessary
• Experience with relevant tools (JIRA Confluence) structured analysis techniques (Process Flows Sequence Diagrams User Journeys) and obsession with simple efficient andstraightforward processes.
• Comfortable making your own decisions and taking on significant responsibility but not shying away from rolling up your sleeves and doingthe daytoday Product work as and when the hypergrowth environment requires you to do so.

Desirable

• Experience working for a scaleup/a small company being driven andexcited by small teams ability to get things done.
• Understanding/knowledge of the Global Custody / PostTrade Services Operating Models (the perfect candidate is someone that has worked directly or indirectly with custodian banks securities administrators and/or CSDs and is familiar with the role they play in Financial Markets).
• Familiar with regulatory and compliance frameworks (AML/KYC FATF Travel Rule MiCA SEC FINMA or other relevant frameworks)
• Experience of working within Regulatory and Compliance programmes

The benefits offered

• Holidays: 27 days per annum paid holiday in addition to bank holidays
• Years of Service Days: Employees are awarded one additional day of paid time off per year of service (up to three years)
• Vitality Health:
  • Medical Insurance: Copper provides all employees with individual cover. Medical history is disregarded and a 24/7 virtual GP is available 100 excess per person per year)
  • Dental Insurance: Comprehensive dental cover for preventative restorative and emergency treatment
  • Audiology Cover: Employees can claim back up 80 of costs up to 300 for any hearing tests or hearing aids
  • Optical Cover: 500 optical cover (through Vision Express) or 80 reimbursement up to 300 for any other optician
  • Menopause Support: Unlimited support for those experiencing symptoms of the menopause such as video consultations with a dedicated menopause practitioner
  • Vitality services also include an additional 100 for minor diagnostic tests and private prescriptions including home diagnostics
  • Headspace Coppers policy provides all employees with a free Headspace subscription. Headspace provides great resources to manage stress improve sleep meditate and enhance mindfulness
  • Discounts and free benefits the Vitality programme has been designed for preventative care to encourage members to improve their overall health and will reward those for doing so. Employees can access additional benefits such as 50 off running shoes discounted health screenings 50 off at Nuffield Health or Virgin Active gyms and much more
• Home Working Energy Support Scheme: to combat energy prices increasing globally Copper will provide you in addition to your salary with a monthly topup of 60 or 75 (subject to your energy supplier)
• Pension up to 10 matched contribution to our company pension scheme via Smart Pensions
• Cycle to Work
• Life Insurance cover: Four times your base salary
• EAP: access unlimited mental health consultations and contact a 24/7 confidential helpline for emotional support
• Unmind
• Sponsored Learning and Development opportunities
• Regular company events and social activities

In return for everything you can bring to Copper we can offer you an exciting challenging role in a fastgrowing and dynamic business with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.

If you think you have everything were looking for and more then wed love you to apply for the opportunity.

Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are the better our work will be. So bring us your experience perspectives and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.