Director, Digital Currencies, Cash Product Management

Job Summary

Product Development and Delivery

• Actively drive, design and develop end to end product lifecycle across ideation, specification, build and launch. Manage disparate stakeholders to a common goal and enforce the necessary steps in moving delivery and the conditions for aligned activity on time.
• Ensure product features, requirements are clearly defined and articulated to engineering and testing teams. Actively participate in delivery execution and management of issues and risks
• Cross functional leadership
• Collaborate and work closely with cross functional teams such as engineering, testing, design as well as functions such as risk, legal, compliance to ensure common understanding of product features
• Manage the timing and flow of technology requirements across different disciplines, skills, organizational silos for delivery of a holistic integrated set of solutions to clients
• Act as central co-ordination point to unblock cross functional issues, obtain alignment and work closely with partners to deliver on product roadmap

Product Strategy

• Define and articulate product vision aligned with business goals. Translate strategic priorities into clear product roadmaps
• Identify market opportunities, customer needs and long-term product direction

Customer and Market Insights

• Develop deep understanding of client journey’s, workflows and leverage on data, user feedback and insights to share product decisions
• Keep up to date on market developments, competitor analysis and customer discovery

Governance And Compliance

• Ensure digital currency solutions comply with regulatory, security, and operational risk requirements.
• Collaborate with compliance and risk teams to address emerging regulatory challenges related to digital currencies
• Provide written submissions to the various risk committees, IT risk, CISO, Data privacy, cloud engineering, architecture, legal, digital Asset risk, compliance and CFCC related requirements and forums.
• Represent digital currency products across bank wide risk management forums
• Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s 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.
• Willingness to ‘speak up’ in the event of any realized or perceived breach of group conduct rules or laws by colleagues
• Willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.

Processes

• Work with internal and external stakeholder to drive positive change towards the delivery of a sustainable digital currency solutions with the objectives of delivering competitive edge and a sustainable client experience. This will include operating instructions, manuals and the related process approvals for the execution of such processes in the Bank.

Evangelism And Thought Leadership

• Act as a digital currency’s evangelist within the bank, promoting awareness and understanding of stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and their potential impact on the financial ecosystem.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging trends in digital currencies, blockchain, and payments, and their implications for the bank.
• Represent the bank in internal and external forums to showcase the bank’s digital currency initiatives.

Key Requirements for the role

• Knowledge of CCIB Client Coverage, Transaction Banking and Financial Markets products – to enable assessment of cross-business issues.
• Relevant business experience in operations, business analysis or project management.
• Strong analytical skills, detail-focused with the ability to interpret large volume of information.
• Problem solving skills with ability to influence across all levels of business.
• Ability to independently drive initiatives with minimum hands-on supervision.
• Digital Currencies; Stabelcoins, Digital tokens, Blockchain

About Standard Chartered

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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer

• 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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.