Job Description

Crypto Trading Squad Leader / Product Owner | Fidelity Digital Assets℠

Fidelity Digital Assets℠ is committed to creating products and services that facilitate the adoption of digital assets by retail and institutions in the increasingly digital finance world. Starting its research on blockchain technology and digital asset solutions in 2014, Fidelity Investments has amassed the expertise to construct the future of finance. As a Crypto Trading Product Owner / Squad Lead on the Fidelity Digital Assets℠ Product Delivery team, you can directly contribute to this future.

The Role

We are seeking a collaborative, team-driven, trading-savvy Product Owner with excellent interpersonal skills and extensive experience in designing and managing electronic trading products. You will work with various business and technology teams to develop a cutting-edge low-latency trading platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to design and deliver trading platform capabilities and solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Squad Leadership: Ensure alignment on the “what”, “when”, and “how” work is to be performed. Manage a roadmap that serves Fidelity Digital Assets℠ Product and Operations teams. Reconcile cross-squad dependencies and take full ownership of the product backlog.
• Agile Delivery: Collaborate closely with your delivery team in an agile structure to deliver trading solutions efficiently and effectively. Engage squad members to share input, deliver on sprint commitments, continuously improve, innovate, experiment, learn, and celebrate success.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure releases are of high quality and implemented seamlessly by ensuring business readiness.
• Development: Commit to developing others and yourself to integrate the latest thinking and knowledge into the squad’s culture.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Electronic Trading Solutions: Designing and managing a broad range of electronic trading product solutions.
• Data Analysis: Proficient in extracting and analyzing data using SQL and other query languages.
• Market Structure: Experience and interest in trading market structure – crypto, FX, or equities.
• Execution Quality: Passionate about maintaining and managing asset class-appropriate execution quality standards.
• Trading Protocols: Understanding of electronic trading protocols, e.g., FIX.
• Inspirational Leadership: Inspire and empower the squad through a shared mission and roadmap.
• Client Focus: Acting as the voice of the client/partner for high value, high-quality execution.
• Communication: Clearly communicate impediments, progress, and results against objectives and KPIs.
• Collaboration: Coordinate with Technology Engineering Management and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability.
• Decision Making: Make informed trade-off decisions to balance quality, cost, and timelines.
• Continuous Improvement: Improve value delivery from planning through implementation.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or any quantitative/analytical training is a plus.
• Experience: 7+ years of combined experience working with trading platforms.
• Tools: Jira and Jira Align experience preferred.
• Industry Experience: Experience in financial services, trading APIs, trading, and custody is a plus.
• Roadmap Management: Skilled at defining and managing roadmaps that align business, data, and technology objectives.
• Discovery: Crafting current/future state diagrams, process flows, and use cases.
• Planning: Experience planning across teams for dependency alignment and facilitating quarterly planning activities.
• Backlog Ownership: Owns the backlog to ensure epics and stories are clear, concise, and well-defined.
• Quality Execution: Unwavering dedication to quality, ensuring business readiness for seamless implementation.
• Partnerships: Develop positive relationships and champion a collaborative team environment.
• Leadership: Demonstrated expertise in leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority.
• Management: Ability to delegate, coach, and deliver feedback to Business Analysts and/or Associate Product Owners.

The Team

The Fidelity Digital Assets℠ Product Delivery team is central to enhancing and delivering platform capabilities for Fidelity Digital Assets℠ Retail and Institutional clients. Our team members are dynamic, team-oriented, and collaborate with each other, business partners, and their squads. We lead by example, strive for continuous improvement, and deliver creative solutions that solve complex challenges and advance the business.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $81,000-$137,000 per year.

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help individuals invest and plan for their future, assist companies and non-profits in providing benefits to their employees, and supply institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to manage their clients’ money.