Lead Product Manager, Tokenization

About the role

This role focuses on leading the product vision and multi-year strategy for Bullish's tokenization platform, covering the entire asset lifecycle from issuance to secondary trading and settlement. The Lead Product Manager will be responsible for critical platform decisions, including token architecture, compliance-aware transfer restrictions, and the settlement model, ensuring compatibility across various blockchain networks. Success in this position means delivering a robust, institutionally trusted platform that bridges traditional financial rails with on-chain capabilities.

A key aspect of the work involves defining operator interfaces and APIs for essential asset operations like issuance, burning, and revaluation, alongside configurable multi-organizational approval workflows. The role also requires driving the smart-contract automation of corporate actions such, as dividends and stock splits, with a strong emphasis on auditability and controls. This ensures the platform meets the stringent requirements of institutions and issuers.

The Lead Product Manager will also develop a broker enablement layer, including APIs and SDKs, to facilitate integration for brokers, neobanks, and wealth platforms. This involves treating integrating developers as primary customers and designing approaches that allow tokenized assets to be composable within DeFi without compromising compliance. The role demands aligning various internal and external stakeholders, representing the vision to executives and regulators, and defining success metrics for platform adoption and reliability.

The anticipated base salary for this position ranges from $245,000 to $285,000, in addition to a discretionary annual target bonus and performance incentives.

Skills that matter here

• Blockchain: This role requires a deep understanding of blockchain technology to design and implement a tokenization platform that operates across multiple chains, including permissioned and privacy-enabled networks.
• DeFi: The product manager must understand DeFi principles to ensure tokenized assets are composable within decentralized finance while maintaining compliance and accounting for corporate actions.
• Smart Contract: Expertise in smart contracts is essential for automating corporate actions, defining token standards, and managing on-chain state and reconciliation processes.
• Tokenization: This position is centered on tokenization, requiring command of token standards and the ability to define the full asset lifecycle on a tokenization platform.

Who this role suits

• You have a strong background in financial services product management, specifically with blockchain or digital asset products.
• You are adept at defining product strategy in ambiguous environments, taking a concept from a blank page to a launched product.
• You possess the ability to communicate complex technical and regulatory information clearly to diverse stakeholders, including C-suite executives and regulators.
• You are skilled at leading cross-functional teams through influence and building consensus around a shared product vision.

From the employer

• Support the end-to-end product vision and multi-year strategy for the Bullish tokenization platform, spanning the full asset lifecycle (issuance, secondary trading, settlement) and the core operations that run it.
• Make the foundational platform decisions everything else depends on: token architecture, compliance-aware transfer restrictions, the settlement model (including the path from traditional T+1/T+0 rails to atomic, on-chain delivery versus payment), and the conversion path between traditional registry holdings and native on-chain tokens, designed to operate across multiple chains, including permissioned and privacy-enabled networks.
• Define operator interfaces and APIs for essential asset operations (issuance, burning, pausing, revaluation) and configurable multi-organizational approval workflows across issuers, transfer agents, and the exchange, and own the reconciliation between the registry book of record and on-chain state, including automated exception handling across lifecycle events.
• Drive smart-contract automation of corporate actions (dividends, stock splits, proxy voting, revaluation, clawback and recall) to a standard that institutions and issuers will trust, with auditability, reporting, and controls designed in from the start.
• Develop use cases, requirements, and prototypes alongside Engineering, moving fluidly from strategy to working product.
• Build the broker enablement layer (APIs, SDKs, documentation, sandbox parity) and distribution model so that brokers, neobanks, and wealth platforms can run on Bullish rails, treating integrating developers and partners as first-class customers, and architect approaches that make tokenized assets composable within DeFi without compromising compliance, accounting for how splits and dividends rebase positions used as collateral.
• Set the roadmap and secure buy-in: align Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and external partners behind a single vision, and represent that vision credibly to C-suite executives, regulators, issuers, and industry and standards working groups.
• Define the success metrics for the platform (adoption, time to integrate, settlement throughput, reliability) and own the commercial case behind roadmap calls, including build versus buy and platform economics.
• Shape the external narrative with Marketing, from product positioning through launch.
• Lead the competitive and regulatory analysis that informs Bullish's positioning, and raise the bar across the product team by setting the standards, patterns, and playbooks others adopt.

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• 8+ years in product management within financial services, with 4+ years owning blockchain, tokenization, or digital asset products, and a demonstrated track record of shipping institutional-grade financial infrastructure end to end.
• Recognized command of token standards (including compliance-aware standards such as ERC-3643 and the DS Protocol, with embedded transfer restrictions), smart contract patterns, settlement mechanics, and the market structure that connects traditional securities infrastructure (registry, transfer agents, clearing and settlement through DTC and NSCC, order routing, and NBBO and Reg NMS mechanics) to on-chain rails.
• A track record of defining a product space in ambiguity, not just executing a roadmap, and of carrying a strategy from a blank page to a launched product.
• Exceptional ability to convey complex technical and regulatory concepts to C-suite stakeholders, regulators, and partners, and to lead cross-functionally through influence rather than authority.

• The anticipated base salary for this position is $245,000 - $285,000 + discretionary annual target bonus + performance incentives/benefits.
• Offered salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and commensurate experience.
• Bullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.