Principal Product Manager, Crypto
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role
Were hiring a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy execution and evolution of our stablecoin and crypto platform products.
In this role you will own the systems that power issuance custody movement and settlement of regulated asset-backed digital currencies. Youll be responsible for defining and executing SoFis stablecoin strategy across both blockchain and traditional financial rails with a strong focus on accuracy resilience and regulatory alignment.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a product leader who thrives at the intersection of financial infrastructure distributed systems and regulatory requirements. You will work deeply with engineering to shape architecture and long-term technical investments while partnering closely with compliance legal risk and security to ensure our stablecoin capabilities meet the highest standards of safety transparency and control.
Stablecoin product experience is required.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision roadmap and execution for stablecoin issuance and lifecycle management including minting burning redemption and supply governance.
- Define and deliver on-chain and off-chain settlement systems that enable reliable high-throughput movement of digital dollars across blockchain and traditional financial rails.
- Partner closely with engineering to drive core architectural decisions and guide long-term infrastructure investments.
- Engage with risk compliance and security teams to align platform capabilities with regulatory requirements (e.g. KYC/AML travel rule).
- Collaborate with internal crypto product teams to ensure platform solutions unlock new product opportunities.
- Design funds-flow controls transaction limits and circuit breakers to support safe operation under normal and stressed conditions.
- Define success metrics and rigorously measure performance efficiency and system health.
- Lead complex build-vs-buy evaluations including vendor assessments for custody and blockchain infrastructure.
- Stay current with emerging crypto technologies protocols custody models and regulatory changes that may impact platform strategy.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10 years of product management experience with significant ownership of complex financial or infrastructure products operating at scale.
- Proven track record launching or operating stablecoins or asset-backed digital currencies including hands-on involvement in issuance redemption or on-chain value transfer.
- Strong technical fluency across distributed systems APIs and blockchain-based transaction flows with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and design discussions with engineering.
- Experience defining and managing mint/burn controls funds-flow rules transaction limits and operational safeguards for digital money products.
- Experience partnering with engineering to navigate architecture decisions and technical trade-offs.
- Demonstrated ability to balance long-term platform investments with near-term delivery needs.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills particularly with engineering security compliance legal and analytics.
- Strong judgment balancing regulatory rigor system reliability and product velocity in ambiguous and high-stakes environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify technical complexity for diverse stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant experience around launching/operating a Stablecoin 3rd party integrations with custodians liquidity providers trade aggregators knowledge of both retail and institutional trading knowledge of secured lending.
- Experience with crypto infrastructure products such as custody wallets or blockchain nodes.
- Familiarity with crypto-specific regulatory frameworks (KYC/AML custody rules travel rule).
- Background working in fintech payments infrastructure or digital asset companies.
- Passionate about leveraging crypto and DeFi technologies to modernize and expand the capabilities of traditional finance.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
About Company
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