What are the responsibilities and job description for the Digital Assets and Crypto, Product Owner position at PeakLnk Technologies, Inc.?
Role: Digital Assets and Crypto, Product Owner
Location: Westlake, TX ; Austin, TX ; Southlake, TX
Duration: Long term Contract
Responsibilities:
Digital Assets Product Ownership
- Own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for digital asset posting, books and records, and lifecycle servicing.
- Define business workflows for trade capture, posting, reconciliation, reporting, and exception management.
- Bring a strong understanding of the trade lifecycle, with relevant experience in custody and settlement operations.
Business Workflow & Books-and-Records Expertise
- Act as the business owner for how digital assets flow through books and records.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure crypto activity is accurately posted, reconciled daily, and audit-ready.
- Ensure product design aligns with regulatory, accounting, and tax reporting requirements.
- Embed appropriate controls into workflows in partnership with Legal, Compliance, and Risk.
AI-First Product Practice (Core Expectation)
- Use autonomous agents as a core tool for discovery, specification, validation, and communication.
- Apply AI-assisted tooling to:
- Break epics into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
- Draft PRDs, business rules, and workflow diagrams
- Summarize stakeholder input, meeting notes, and regulatory materials
- Prepare executive-ready summaries and decision memos
- Partner closely with TPM and engineering to support a multi-step, AI-centric development lifecycle (AI-DLC) with agent-assisted delivery.
- Continuously identify ways AI can simplify, accelerate, and de-risk product and operational workflows.
Stakeholder Orchestration & Delivery
- Serve as the primary business product lead across teams, including coordination with multiple Scrum teams where required.
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint reviews, roadmap reviews, and stakeholder demos.
- Align roadmap priorities with delivery sequencing, dependencies, and risk management.
- Own business go-live readiness, including runbooks, UAT, and post-launch health.
- Provide concise, decision-oriented updates to senior leadership.
Qualifications:
Core Qualification
- 6 years of experience in product ownership or product management within financial services, custody, banking, or capital markets.
- Strong understanding of books and records, including posting and reconciliation workflows.
- Demonstrated fluency in using agentic AI tools to support discovery, content development, analysis, and stakeholder synthesis.
- Ability to translate complex technical and regulatory concepts into clear, actionable business requirements.
- Experience operating in regulated environments, with close partnership across Risk, Compliance, and Legal functions.
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience across the digital assets ecosystem, including crypto custody, blockchain platforms, stablecoins, and related market infrastructure.
- Sound understanding of on-chain concepts such as wallets, key management, transaction fees, confirmations, staking, and bridging.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted delivery models and their application across product, engineering, or operational workflows.
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to influence outcomes effectively across teams and stakeholders without direct authority.