Squad Leader – Blockchain & Trading | Fidelity Digital Assets®

Squad Leader – Blockchain & Trading | Fidelity Digital Assets®

Fidelity Digital Assets® is dedicated to building products and services that help institutions adopt digital assets and innovate within the increasingly digital world of finance.  Fidelity Investments began researching blockchain technology and digital assets solutions in 2014, where years of research and development have provided us with the deep expertise necessary to build the future of finance.  As a Blockchain & Trading Squad Leader (Product Owner) on the Fidelity Digital Assets® Product Delivery team you would have the opportunity to directly contribute towards this future. 

The Role
We’re looking for a team-focused Product Owner with phenomenal interpersonal skills that will work collaboratively across business and technology teams.  This role has the unique opportunity to design and deliver crypto custody, digital asset wallets, and blockchain solutions.  

The Product Owner for this team will ensure alignment on “what” and “when” work is to be performed through continuous planning and management of a roadmap that serves the Fidelity Digital Assets® Product and Operations teams.  You partner to reconcile cross-squad dependencies while taking ownership of the product backlog that enables effective delivery.  You work closely with your delivery team, in an agile structure, to deliver trading solutions that drive efficiency and effectiveness against defined product objectives and the squad mission.  You engage squad members for their input, deliver on sprint commitments, continuously improve, innovate, experiment, learn and celebrate success. You ensure releases are of the highest quality and are implemented seamlessly by ensuring business readiness. You are committed to developing others and yourself to ensure the latest thinking and knowledge is integrated into the culture of the squad.

This role requires a dedicated, committed, and passionate leader who is able to:

• Design and lead delivery of a platforms involving blockchains, trading, and portfolio management
• Inspire and empower the squad through a shared mission and roadmap that aligns the work they do and the value they deliver to the partners they support
• Guide the team by serving as the voice of the client/partner towards high value, high quality execution
• Clearly communicate impediments, progress, and results against established objectives.
• Establishes KPI’s to measure progress agreed upon business, technology, and people results
• Collaborate and coordinate with Technology Engineering Management and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability that cultivates a growth mindset
• Make informed decisions to balance quality, cost, and timeline constraints
• Improve value delivery and delivery excellence from planning through implementation

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA a plus
• 7+ years of combined product management experience working with trading, blockchain technologies, financial services, technology, and/or leading agile teams
• Experience with trading platforms, trading models & algorithms, and/or portfolio management required
• Cryptocurrency, blockchain, and/or decentralized finance (DeFi) interest, knowledge and/or experience required
• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred
• Roadmap Management - skilled at defining and managing roadmaps that align business, data, and technology objectives by using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand, sequence and prioritize needs
• Discovery - crafting current/future state diagrams, process flows, use cases that position prioritized areas for delivery success
• Planning – experience planning across teams for dependency alignment and facilitating quarterly planning activities that effectively break down work towards sprint goals
• Backlog Ownership – owns the backlog to ensure epics and stories are clear and concise with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria. Ensure backlog readiness for upcoming sprints
• Quality Execution – attention to detail with unwavering dedication to quality that is not limited to sign off. Ensure business readiness that ultimately delivers a seamless implementation
• Partnerships - develop positive relationships and champion a collaborative team environment
• Leadership – demonstrated expertise of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams
• Management – able to delegate, coach and deliver feedback to Business Analysts and/or Associate Product Owners that may report directly to you. Prioritize management responsibilities and support that cultivates associate growth and career development.

Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position

The Team

This Squad Leader role sits within the Product Delivery team that is central to enhancing and delivering platform capabilities that power our Digital Asset product offerings and business needs. Members of our team are highly dynamic, team-oriented and partner with each other, business partners and their squads. We lead by example, seek to continuously improve, deliver creative solutions that solve complex challenges and/or advance the business while always seeking to increase the value we provide through our product delivery practice.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.   

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home.  These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career.  Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.