Job Summary

This is a Digital Assets Product Management role for Prime Services, Markets, CIB.
The jobholder is responsible for driving the scale roll out of the digital assets offering across Prime with an interlock into the broader Markets division.  The jobholder will construct and own the strategic roadmap associated with Digital Assets including responding to market and regulatory changes.

The jobholder should collaborate with CIB Digital Assets group, Sales, IT, Compliance, Risk, Technology and Operations teams to develop and enhance solutions that meet client needs, drive revenue and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

In summary, the jobholder:
•    Dynamically manages the suite of digital assets products related to Prime Services.
•    Assesses Prime Services current operational support model and help lead the design and implementation of the operating model for supporting Digital Assets at scale.
•    Collaborates with Product Heads across FM and FSS on shared Digital Assets solutions 
•    Ensures risk framework in support of Digital Assets is satisfactory,
•    Facilitates External and internal discussions
•    Provides thought leadership in the Digital Assets space
•    Supports the Global Head of Prime Product with ad-hoc initiatives for Prime and related businesses
•    Provides insightful analysis of industry developments, market changes and competitor offerings to identify threats and opportunities, assesses the impact on clients, technology and offer appropriate and innovative product solutions
•    Participates in regulatory panels, committees, and working groups to ensure the SCB perspective is heard and SCB is seen as an influential party in the global industry.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Define, Drive & Execute the Prime Digital Assets product strategy, ensuring alignment with SCB CIB broader business objectives.
•    Develop and manage the Digital Assets product roadmap, identifying opportunities to improve the product suite enhance customer experience and drive profitability 
•    Help to define operational services and related technology to support the Digital Assets Prime business

Business
•    Manage relationships with functions such as Risk, Credit, Compliance, Legal, Finance as they impact the evolution of the Digital Assets product.
•    Collaborates with Technology to implement a scalable, automated, and commercially viable operating model for the business, capable of adaptation to satisfy changing business and regulatory requirements,

Processes
•    Drive standards of performance and output across all Prime Digital Assets products.
•    Oversee all processes & systems including clearing networks and risk management tools ensuring that they meet performance, security and regulatory standards
•    Ensure the smooth operation of digital asset functions and post-trades processes.
•    Reviews Digital Assets Prime products to ensure profitability requirements and expectations continue to be met.
•    Drives consistent standards of performance and output across all Prime Services locations.
•    Manages senior-level contact with regulators and infrastructures. Communicates developments to broader Markets teams where applicable.

People & Talent 
•    Lead through example, exhibiting the appropriate culture and values. Exhibit appropriate tone and expectations and work in collaboration with risk and control partners

Risk Management
•    Work closely with Legal, Compliance, and risk teams to maintain up-to-date knowledge of regulatory changes and ensure Digital Asset product offerings align with evolving standards
•    Collaborates with Prime IBR and Client Solutions in identifying and managing day-to-day margin / traded risks associated with Digital Assets. 
•    Implement and monitor controls to mitigate operational, financial, and non financial, including regulatory, risks related to Digital Assets
•    Also, maintains an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual and team plays in managing them

Governance 
•    Work closely with local heads of Compliance, Ops, Legal, Risk, Credit, Technology and other relevant parties in the course of establishing a detailed Digital Assets business plan. 
•    Maintains awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role. 
•    Delivers ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge fellow executives effectively; willingness to work with regulators in an open and cooperative manner

Regulatory & Business Conduct 
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Qualifications

The jobholder will have 
•    A minimum of 15 years experience in product management or similar role with a focus on Financial Markets, derivatives, and digital assets.
•    A strong knowledge of financial markets, particularly digital assets.
•    Experience with risk management infrastructure
•    Understanding of regulatory requirements such as Dodd-Frank, Emir and MIFID II
•    Strong knowledge of operations and margining methodologies
•    Experience with risk systems and post-trade lifecycle tools
•    Ability to develop product business cases, conduct market analysis and present strategic recommendations to senior management 

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.