Director Stock Tokenization Product
Skills
About the Role
You will own the full product lifecycle for bringing public equities onchain. You will define technical product requirements and lead hands-on integration work with exchanges, ATS platforms, clearinghouses, and transfer agents. You will architect settlement and after-hours trading models, design corporate actions automation and cap-table-backed token issuance, and build DeFi and liquidity integrations while ensuring regulatory compliance. You will represent product in meetings with exchange operators, regulators, market infrastructure partners, and executive stakeholders, and coordinate across engineering, legal, operations, and business teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of product management experience with at least 4 years in capital markets technology or trading platforms
- Deep technical fluency in exchange connectivity and settlement including FIX, order routing, market data, and NBBO mechanics
- Thorough understanding of traditional settlement processes (T+1, T+0, DTC, NSCC) and mapping to atomic DvP
- Hands-on experience integrating with or working at stock exchanges, ATS operators, clearinghouses, transfer agents, or central securities depositories
- Strong command of SEC and FINRA regulatory frameworks including Reg NMS and Reg ATS and broker-dealer operations
- Ability to translate complex technical and regulatory requirements into product specifications and engineering-ready acceptance criteria
- Exceptional stakeholder management and experience engaging with exchange executives, regulators, and C-level leadership
- Based in or willing to relocate to the New York metro area
Responsibilities
- Own the technical product roadmap for stock tokenization and market infrastructure integration
- Lead technical integration workstreams with exchange and infrastructure partners
- Define API specifications, data requirements, order routing protocols, and settlement connectivity
- Specify Reg NMS compliance and post-trade reconciliation workflows
- Architect atomic delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement path from legacy rails to onchain
- Design smart-contract-based after-hours AMM pricing and 24/7 trading models
- Evolve DS Protocol token standards to support corporate actions and rebasing
- Define onboarding workflows for issuers and transfer-agent-driven issuance
- Design corporate actions automation for splits, dividends, proxy voting, and reorganizations
- Maintain cap-table-as-source-of-truth token ownership model and off-chain bridge mechanisms
- Architect multi-venue distribution and market maker connectivity models
- Define liquidity management frameworks and permissioned liquidity pool controls
- Design investor access models across jurisdictions with issuer-level access controls
- Integrate tokenized equities with DeFi primitives while preserving compliance and permissioning
- Translate regulatory frameworks into engineering-ready product specifications
Benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Equity grant opportunities
- Remote work flexibility
- Employer-paid medical dental and vision insurance for employee and family
- 401(k) retirement plan