Product Lead, Protocol Ecosystems

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives. Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Protecting your privacy rights is important to Anchorage Digital, and we work to maintain the trust and confidence of our clients when handling personal or financial information. Please see our privacy policy notices here.We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Introduction

Anchorage Digital is seeking a visionary Product Lead to join our Protocols organization. This role is crucial in defining the strategic direction for how Anchorage Digital engages with leading blockchain ecosystems, ensuring institutional-grade custody, staking, governance, and DeFi capabilities are delivered. If you thrive at the intersection of product vision, leadership, and deep protocol fluency, we invite you to help shape the future of institutional digital asset participation.

Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Roadmapping: Drive end-to-end product strategy for protocol ecosystem engagement, balancing near-term commitments with long-term platform investments. Develop and maintain a strategic lens on the blockchain landscape to identify key ecosystems, consensus mechanisms, and on-chain primitives for investment, and sequence their integration.
• Go-to-Market Leadership: Drive comprehensive go-to-market strategies alongside sales and partnerships, defining success metrics and iterating based on data and market feedback.
• Technical Acumen: Demonstrate the ability to understand system architecture deeply enough to set sound technical direction with engineering leadership.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Drive cross-functional initiatives spanning engineering, design, sales, compliance, and external partners, resolving ambiguity and maintaining momentum across multiple workstreams.
• Strategic Influence: Contribute strategic insights that shape company-level priorities and influence leadership decisions beyond your immediate team.
• Organizational Understanding: Develop and leverage a deep understanding of Anchorage Digital's business model, regulatory landscape, and competitive positioning to inform ecosystem strategy.
• Stakeholder Management: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across departments to ensure alignment on priorities, surfacing trade-offs early, and driving shared accountability.
• Process Improvement: Navigate and improve organizational processes to increase the Protocols team's efficiency, predictability, and quality of output.
• Communication & Representation: Represent the Protocols organization to senior leadership, the board, and external partners, articulating strategy, progress, and trade-offs with clarity and conviction.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Enable cross-functional collaboration through consistent, transparent communication and thoughtful influence on decision-making at every level. Serve as a knowledge partner to leadership on blockchain ecosystem trends, helping the company stay ahead of market shifts.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years leading or managing other product managers.
• Meaningful experience in blockchain, DeFi, or protocol-adjacent companies, with a deep understanding of ecosystem dynamics beyond just the technology.
• Proven track record of defining and executing multi-quarter product strategies that required navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Background in engineering or a demonstrated ability to delve into technical architecture when required.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of distilling complex ecosystem trade-offs into clear narratives for leadership, partners, and the team.
• Strong empathy and adaptability to complement diverse working styles, embodying a culture of curiosity, creativity, and shared understanding.
• Deep commitment to optimizing the end-user experience and leveraging it to create business value.
• A combination of creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hard-working, trustworthy, eager-to-learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious qualities.

Nice to Have

• Experience shipping products that required direct collaboration with protocol foundations or core development teams.
• Built or contributed to ecosystem evaluation frameworks, partnership models, or integration playbooks at a previous company.
• Experience writing smart contracts or dApps.
• Experience managing P&L accountability or revenue targets tied to product decisions.

Benefits

• Not explicitly stated, but Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, fostering a supportive and connected environment.

About Company

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions. As the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., along with Anchorage Digital Singapore and Porto by Anchorage Digital, empowers institutions to participate in digital assets through comprehensive services including custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and leading security infrastructure. Funded by prominent institutions like Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with a Series D valuation over $3 billion, Anchorage Digital was founded in 2017 and has offices in San Francisco, New York, Porto, Singapore, and Sioux Falls. Join the Anchorage Village, a diverse team of over 600 members, united in building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

How to Apply

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply through the provided application link. Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. Confidentiality of personal information is maintained, and AI tools may be used in the hiring process to assist the recruitment team, with final hiring decisions made by humans.