Senior Blockchain Product Manager

Location: New York, NY

Hybrid (candidates close to a hub working East Coast hours)

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 14 months (extension possible; conversion to permanent possible)
• Pay Rate: $75.00–$85.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Monday–Friday, core business hours; overtime as needed
• Travel Requirements: Not required
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

The Senior Blockchain Product Manager will lead the strategy, design, and multi-year delivery of tokenized deposit capabilities for a leading financial institution. This role will stand at the centre of a significant enterprise program intended to build competitive digital money capabilities and position the organization to participate effectively as the industry evolves. The successful candidate will act as the organization's lead subject matter expert for tokenized deposits and a key leader in the broader digital assets agenda. They will translate business, client, regulatory, operational, treasury, risk, legal, and technology considerations into a coherent product strategy, executable roadmap, and scalable operating capability. The role mandate is to own the end-to-end product agenda for tokenized deposits, from strategic definition and business case through requirements, design, implementation, launch, adoption, and ongoing evolution. The role will create alignment across the organization, drive decisions through complex dependencies, and ensure the program delivers secure, resilient, compliant, commercially relevant, and operationally sustainable capabilities.

Product Strategy and Roadmap

• Define the enterprise vision, value proposition, client outcomes, and multi-year roadmap for tokenized deposits and related digital money capabilities.
• Translate client needs, market, regulatory, and infrastructure developments into product priorities, business cases, funding proposals, and executive investment decisions.
• Set delivery sequencing, milestones, dependencies, and success measures from discovery and experimentation through implementation and commercialization, linking outcomes to client and enterprise value.

End-to-End Requirements and Design

• Define and prioritize business, functional, non-functional, operational, control, data, reporting, and technology requirements, maintaining traceability through design, delivery, testing, and readiness.
• Lead lifecycle design across issuance, redemption, transfer, settlement, reconciliation, liquidity, client servicing, exceptions, financial reporting, and operational support.
• Ensure integration with deposit platforms, payment rails, treasury processes, digital wallets, distributed ledgers, and enterprise systems.

Enterprise Program Leadership

• Lead the multi-year product program across workstreams, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders, aligning Operations, Treasury, Technology, Architecture, Legal, Risk, Compliance, AML, Finance, Payments, Deposit Product, and Capital Markets.
• Establish governance, decision rights, escalation paths, delivery cadence, and accountability; resolve cross-functional priorities and decisions.
• Partner with program and delivery leaders on the integrated plan, scope, and outcomes; manage dependencies, strategic risks, and delivery constraints, escalating decisions requiring senior leadership attention.

Risk, Control and Operational Readiness

• Embed legal, regulatory, financial crime, privacy, operational, technology, model, third-party risk, and resiliency requirements into product design from inception.
• Define liquidity, balance-sheet, funding, accounting, reconciliation, and reporting requirements with Treasury and Finance; establish scalable service models, procedures, controls, exception management, and support with Operations.
• Drive implementation readiness through testing, control validation, operational acceptance, training, communications, and transition planning.

Technology and Ecosystem Enablement

• Define target-state capabilities, integrations, platforms, data flows, and delivery options with Technology and Architecture, ensuring interoperability, scalability, resilience, security, and enterprise standards.
• Assess build, buy, partner, and consortium options with Procurement, Technology, Risk, Legal, and business stakeholders.
• Lead product engagement with market infrastructures, technology providers, industry utilities, networks, and other tokenized-deposit partners.

Subject Matter Leadership and Industry Engagement

• Serve as the organization's senior product expert on tokenized deposits, digital money, blockchain-enabled banking infrastructure, and related market developments.
• Build enterprise understanding of opportunities, risks, and operating requirements; translate industry insights into practical implications, recommendations, and leadership decisions.
• Represent the organization in industry forums, working groups, consortiums, and partner discussions, coordinating with accountable internal stakeholders.

• Experience delivering digital asset, blockchain, payment, or market-infrastructure capabilities in a regulated financial institution.
• Knowledge of bank balance-sheet mechanics, settlement accounts, liquidity management, accounting, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting.
• Experience working with regulators, payment-system operators, industry utilities, technology vendors, standards bodies, or consortium-led initiatives.
• Familiarity with product operating models, agile delivery, enterprise architecture, control-by-design, and operational-readiness practices.

• DISQUALIFIERS – is there any information/experience on a candidate's resume that would disqualify them from consideration for this position?
• N\A

• 8 years of overall experience in a relevant field
• Background in large financial institutions within payments, core deposits, or ledgers; FINTECH payments, digital assets, crypto, or stablecoin experience strongly preferred

• Relevant university degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree or relevant professional certification is an asset

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

• Interview process: 2 rounds, virtual, camera on
• Training period: 4 weeks to a few months, depending on experience and background

This client is a leading financial services and banking institution operating across North America, with a significant presence in major financial hubs including New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and North Carolina. The organization employs tens of thousands of professionals spanning technology, product management, digital assets, payments, treasury, compliance, risk, and capital markets functions. The client is actively investing in next-generation digital money infrastructure, including tokenized deposit capabilities and blockchain-enabled banking, and ranks among the largest financial institutions in North America by assets and customer reach.

GTT is an NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. GTT is a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, an Alaska-based company and one of the largest Alaska Native-owned corporations. An Inc. 5000 honoree and one of SIA's Best Staffing Firms to Work For, GTT connects professionals with Fortune 500 organizations across IT, engineering, construction, utilities, life sciences, financial services, and healthcare throughout the U.S. and Canada. We're committed to diverse, inclusive workplaces and to placing people in roles where they can do their best work.

Job Number: 26-19217