Chief Product Officer, Digital Assets

You will primarily be responsible for:

• Defining, delivering and owning the product vision and strategy for tokenisation across issuance, custody, settlement, lifecycle management and secondary trading infrastructure, fully aligned with Euronext’s digital assets strategy.
• Leading structured discovery with clients and prospects (including issuers, banks, broker-dealers, custodians, asset managers and Web3 participants) to identify needs and translate them into a prioritised product roadmap.
• Taking products from concept through design, specification, build and launch, bringing clarity and structure as the product matures.
• Writing and owning product specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria for IT, Legal and Compliance teams.
• Collaborating closely with Legal, Compliance and Risk to ensure products are designed in accordance with MiCA, DLT Pilot Regime, CSDR and relevant national regulations from inception.
• Defining token economics, lifecycle event handling (such as corporate actions, redemptions and settlement), and interoperability across distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks and traditional infrastructure.
• Building and leading the product team as the business scales, including hiring, mentoring and establishing effective working practices.
• Defining and tracking key success metrics such as adoption, volumes, time-to-market and client satisfaction, and reporting progress to senior management and the board.
• Acting as a key member of the management team, interfacing with the CEO, CTO and Euronext ExCo.

Your profile:

• Demonstrated experience in taking products from concept to launch, including design, specification, build, go-to-market, measurement and iteration.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, creating structure and guiding others.
• Strong strategic mindset with the ability to shape and deliver the direction of the digital assets unit.
• Deep expertise in digital assets and tokenisation of securities (equities and/or fixed income), with understanding of technical and commercial aspects of issuance, custody, settlement and lifecycle management.
• Experience at a crypto-native or digital asset exchange, custodian or tokenisation platform, or comparable experience in stablecoin issuance, DLT infrastructure or Web3 platforms with institutional or regulated clients.
• Experience in regulated financial businesses such as brokerage, exchange, CSD or custodian bank, with proven ability to work alongside Compliance, Legal, Risk and Operations.
• At least ten years of product or strategy experience, including previous leadership of a product function or team.
• Credibility to operate at Chief Product Officer level, setting vision, influencing top management and representing the business externally.
• Fluency in English; an additional European language is a plus.
• Working knowledge of token standards and DLT architecture (e.g. ERC20, ERC3643, permissioned ledgers, Canton, Hyperledger) to collaborate with engineering teams.
• Familiarity with custody, transfer agency, clearing and settlement, and corporate actions processing in traditional capital markets.