Job Summary

Director, Product Manager, Digital Assets for Financing & Securities Services with responsibility for:
•    Support and developing business cases for digital assets and related strategic initiatives including partnerships (externally and internally)
•    Assist in product definition and development of existing and new product concepts
•    Support and manage product governance and approval processes for digital assets in Asia and other global locations from time to time
•    Perform other duties across FSS product and sales for digital assets as assigned from time to time

Developing business cases for digital assets and related strategic initiatives including partnerships (externally and internally)
•    Market Analysis: Conduct comprehensive market research for the Asia market (and globally as required) to identify opportunities for new digital asset services and partnerships, including competitive analysis and customer interviews. 
•    Financial Modelling: Help develop financial models to forecast the potential revenue, costs, and profitability of new initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives. 
•    Stakeholder Buy-In: Present business cases to management and other internal stakeholders and potential partners, effectively communicating the strategic value, benefits, and risks associated with the initiatives

Product definition and development of existing and new product concepts
•    Client Interactions: Collaborate with clients and internal cross-functional teams to gather and analyse requirements for new digital asset products or enhancements to existing products in Asia and other locations from time to time, ensuring they meet customer and market needs.
•    Product Ideation: Lead the product definition and provide SME input to validate concepts, gather feedback, and iterate on continuous improvements in the product. 
•    Documentation: Assist in managing comprehensive product documentation, including specifications, user guides, and training materials, to support product development and client interactions

Support and manage product governance and approval processes for digital assets
•    Governance Framework: Follow and improve the governance framework to ensures all digital asset products comply with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and internal policies. 
•    Approval Processes: Coordinate and manage the approval processes for new products and updates, including preparing necessary documentation and presenting to local, regional and global governance committees. 
•    Risk Management: Identify and proactively mitigate risks associated with digital asset products, working closely with compliance, legal, and risk management teams

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelors in business and or technology
• 10+ experience in banking and Financial Services
• 4 years hands-on experience  in Digital assets
• Strong Stakeholder and client management skills
• Strong Communication and presentation skills
• Business level Mandarin / Cantonese language skills to engage with clients in China and Hong Kong. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support management in identifying strategic changes and opportunities which contribute to the development of the strategy for the FSS business

Business
•    Possess a strategic mindset to manage the digital asset product road map aligning it with overall business goals and market trends. Strong skills are required managing product governance, guiding cross functional teams and comprehensively communicating complex concepts to stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

Processes
•    Proactively solicit feedback from Clients, Sales and Business Development, Business Account Management, and Operations teams to assess performance of the digital assets Product and work to enhance the product features and offering for Asia and other locations from time to time on an ongoing basis.

Risk Management
•    Identify, raise and manage product governance and development related risks in line with the group risk management standards and policies including the enterprise risk management framework (ERMF). 

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.
 
Key stakeholders

•    Head, Digital Assets, FSS
•    Head, Commercialisation, FSS
•    Global Head, FSS Product
•    Global Head, FSS Sales
•    Global Head, FSS
•    Technology, Operations and Risk
•    Coverage and GAM

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Crypto Assets and Stablecoins   
• Blockchain and DLT   
• Digital Assets Custody   
• Product 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.

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