Chief Product Officer - Digital Assets - eFinancialCareers - #2118684

We are a Global digital assets investment business seeking to appoint a new Chief Product Officer.

Role Overview

The Chief Product Officer (CPO) owns the product strategy and long-term product offering vision. This role is accountable for turning that vision into measurable commercial outcomes, including clear P&L impact, by ensuring the company ships the right products for the right clients and markets.

The CPO connects business strategy to product discovery and delivery across divisions, ensuring a coherent, institutional-grade client experience and a scalable product operating model.

What Success Looks Like (12–18 months)

1. A clear, shared product vision and multi-year product strategy that is understood by ExCo and embedded in divisional plans.
2. A portfolio and prioritization model that ties capacity allocation to commercial strategy, financial impact, and risk/regulatory constraints.
3. Improved speed and quality of decision-making across Product and Engineering through an effective operating cadence (OKRs, KPIs, board targets, discovery-to-delivery flow).
4. Institutional-grade product standards across security, controls, and regulatory readiness.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Vision, Strategy, and Portfolio Ownership (Commercial & P&L Impact): Define and continuously refine the long-term product offering vision and strategy. Own the narrative of why the firm should build and launch specific products, for which clients, and with what expected commercial outcomes. Ensure the roadmap and investment choices explicitly reflect commercial strategy and P&L impact.
2. Strategic Prioritization & Capacity Arbitration: Serve as the executive owner of strategic prioritization. Make final calls on trade-offs across the firm when allocating product and engineering capacity. Balance the high-frequency performance needs of Capital Markets with the foundational platform and infrastructure requirements of the broader group, in partnership with Engineering leadership.
3. One-Firm Product Experience & Cross-Divisional Coherence: Ensure cross-divisional logic, compatibility, and a unified client lifecycle across all business units. Drive end-to-end thinking so clients experience the organization as one institution rather than a set of separate desks and platforms.
4. Partnership with Engineering Leadership: Partner closely with Engineering leadership to execute the product strategy. The CPO sets product direction and outcomes, ensures strong discovery, and enables delivery at scale, while Engineering leadership owns technical architecture and implementation choices.
5. Product Operating Model & Organizational Design: Design and implement the overarching framework that connects business strategy (OKRs, KPIs, board targets) to continuous product discovery and delivery. Establish the governance, rituals, and decision forums needed for a scaled product organization, focusing on organizational design rather than day-to-day agile management.
6. Risk, Regulation, and Institutional-Grade Controls by Design: Ensure regulatory frameworks, risk controls, and institutional-grade security are integrated into the product lifecycle from the start. Drive a "controls-aware" product culture where compliance and risk are enabling constraints, not late-stage blockers.
7. Leadership & Talent: Lead and develop the senior product leadership community (e.g., divisional VPs/Heads of Product). Coach leaders on strategy, commercial thinking, and cross-functional influence. Build a high-performance product culture and shape the approach to attracting and retaining top product talent.
8. External Stakeholders & Market Strategy: Represent the firm’s product strategy with key external stakeholders, including strategic partners, regulators (as appropriate), and the Board. Stay close to market structure evolution and competitive dynamics to inform product bets.

Core Competencies

1. Commercial product leadership: Proven ability to link product strategy to revenue, margins, client adoption, and measurable P&L outcomes.
2. Strategic prioritization under constraints: Strong judgment to make firm-wide trade-offs across competing needs, with clarity and decisiveness.
3. Executive communication: Ability to clearly articulate product direction, investment rationale, and progress to ExCo and the Board.
4. Cross-functional leadership: Ability to align Product, Engineering, and business leadership without overstepping into technical solution ownership.
5. Operating model design: Experience designing systems that connect strategy to execution (OKRs, metrics, governance, discovery-to-delivery).
6. Risk/regulatory fluency: Comfort embedding regulatory, risk, and security constraints into product strategy and lifecycle decisions.

Key Experiences & Background

1. Multi-division product governance: Led a portfolio across multiple business lines or platforms, with meaningful integration and shared standards.
2. Institutional financial markets exposure: Experience with institutional trading, market structure, OTC flows, derivatives, and related workflows.
3. Digital assets and modern market infrastructure: Strong understanding of digital asset markets and broader DeFi primitives (e.g., on-chain asset management, AMMs, liquidity pools) and the requirements for institutional-grade custody and node/infrastructure operations.
4. Data-driven decision-making: Strong track record using metrics and experimentation to validate hypotheses and guide investment decisions.
5. AI/ML productization: Experience turning AI/ML capabilities into production products (e.g., decision support, optimization, intelligent automation) in a way that is safe, governed, and commercially impactful.
6. Scaling organizations through change: Experience building and scaling teams and operating models in a high-growth company transitioning into a mature, global institutional provider.

Why Join Us as Chief Product Officer