Protocol Product Manager

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

The Protocols team Product Manager is responsible for driving the day-to-day management of one of our blockchain teams. We partner with the leading protocols and their direct investors to build whatever on-chain interaction they require that may include custody, staking, and governance support. This role requires a combination of technical understanding, business acumen, and leadership skills to build new asset support, manage our backlog of features and maintenance improvements, and think strategically about scaling the way we work. 

Technical Skills:

• Independently define the requirements and roadmap, collaborating closely with an agile scrum team on blockchain integrations.
• Proactively research protocol integrations with emerging blockchains, developing on-chain solutions that drive value for protocol foundations and institutional investors.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Lead your blockchain team in day-to-day operations and drive cross-team initiatives, ensuring alignment with project goals and ownership of your team and their focus area.
• Work closely with sales, design, and engineering - set the pace, drive projects forward and unblock the team. Write high quality PRDs that are clearly written and easy to understand.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Understand the requirements that span across departments including compliance, legal, and operations to ensure we’re building the right product or service and escalating the potential impact to the appropriate stakeholders and and your managers when appropriate.

 

Communication and Influence:

• Educate your scrum team on needs from external protocols teams.
• Communicate the roadmap clearly and persuasively across stakeholders.
• Adapt communication both internally and externally in an effective manner. Explain and convince others the need to adapt or change processes, policies, structures, and methods to deliver their goals.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• You have 3-5 years of relevant product management experience. Experience with blockchain and web3 companies not required.
• You have experience in driving and managing complex projects across multiple teams, demonstrating exceptional leadership and problem-solving skills.
• You have a background in engineering, equipping you with the acumen to effectively collaborate with technical teams to solve problems.
• Your empathy and adaptability not only complement others’ working styles but also embody our culture of curiosity, creativity, and shared understanding
• You are autonomous, with the ability to make informed decisions that align with our strategic goals.
• You are deeply invested in optimizing the end-user experience and leveraging it to create business value.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You have written your own smart contract or dApp.
• You have a background in the world of finance.
• You've seen and were emotionally moved by the musical Hamilton : )

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. 

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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