Job Summary

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Standard Chartered is seeking a product manager who is 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 “go-to” contact for education, thought leadership, and Digital Assets related product knowledge.

Strategy

• You will support the commercialization and development of innovative blockchain and digital asset solutions that have strategic fit and value to the Bank’s clients

Business

• You will identify opportunities through conversations with colleagues, 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 be a team player responsible for supporting the product work for one or more of our key strategic initiatives by driving tactics, and delivery timelines. You will drive the end-to-end product development from opportunity assessment, ideation, validation, and delivery to ongoing optimization

Processes

• Use modern productivity tools such as ADO, Teams, Slack, Trello, Mural, Jira, Confluence
• 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   

People & Talent

• 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.

Key stakeholders

• Businesses across CIB – specifically Transaction Banking Cash, Financial Markets Financing Securities Services, Digital Assets Centre of Excellence
• Compliance – Product and CIB Platform and Partnerships, Financial Crime and Surveillance Operations
• Legal - Product and CIB Platform and Partnerships
• Technology – Primarily Distributed Ledger Technology Hive, but other product technology as well
• Vendor and Third Party Partners

Skills and Experience

• Strong blockchain/web3 product management experience while being familiar in related
• Experience working in financial services and/or enterprise fintech in a product development role ideally dealing with emerging technologies.
• ADO, Teams, Slack, Trello, Mural, Jira, Confluence
• Process Management    
• Business Writing & Communication
• Presentation and PowerPoint skills 

Qualifications

• EDUCATION
  • University graduate preferred
• TRAINING     
  • Understand technology trends in Digital Assets and provide insight & analysis to the implications to Digital product and channel partner
  • Familiar with modern productivity tools, ADO, Teams, Slack, Trello, Mural, Jira, Confluence
• CERTIFICATIONS     
  • Relevant technology or crypto/blockchain certifications

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• 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.