Principal Product Manager, Canton Network Ecosystem

Job Description Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance. At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network – the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real‑time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney, we are on a mission to transform finance – and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network. If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto‑capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on‑chain, join us. Job Requirements Required: 7+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent in ecosystem coordination, partner management, or community‑facing roles Demonstrated ability to facilitate governance processes, working groups, or standards‑body activities across multiple independent organizations. Strong written and verbal communication skills – you will be the voice of Digital Asset in community forums, meetings, and documentation. Ability to understand distributed‑systems architecture at a conceptual level and translate between engineering teams and non‑technical stakeholders. Comfort operating in a fast‑moving environment where you must manage ambiguity, balance competing stakeholder needs, and make prioritization tradeoffs with limited information. Preferred: Experience in open‑source ecosystem management, developer relations, or standards‑body coordination. Familiarity with blockchain or distributed ledger technology. Technical background (engineering degree, prior development experience, or similar); coding skills are not required, but you should be comfortable using AI tools to read and interpret code when needed. Experience coordinating across product and engineering teams in a matrixed organization. Opportunity The Principal Product Manager for the Canton Network Ecosystem is the primary point of contact between Digital Asset’s product and engineering organizations and the Canton Network ecosystem. You will own Digital Asset’s contributions to community operations, governance facilitation, and cross‑team coordination – ensuring that the needs of the ecosystem are understood, documented, and routed to the right teams, and that Digital Asset’s plans and contributions are visible, coherent, and well‑understood by the community. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Canton Network Ecosystem. You will work as a peer alongside product managers responsible for Splice, Wallets, SDKs, dApps, and the Canton protocol. Responsibilities Ecosystem Intelligence and Cross‑Team Coordination Identify emerging needs and opportunities across the ecosystem, characterize and document them, and route them to the appropriate product and engineering teams within Digital Asset. Maintain a working understanding of Digital Asset’s product roadmaps sufficient to recognize when a community proposal is already covered by or could fit with planned work. Help form special interest groups around technical topics drawing community interest, and facilitate the development of technical strategy, design, and coordinated development work across participants. Influence and coordinate across Digital Asset’s product roadmaps to ensure they remain visible and coherent to the community. Canton Foundation Contributions Serve as a contributing member of the Operations subcommittee of the Canton Foundation's Technology & Operations committee. Facilitate operational votes by Super Validator node operators and document operational guidelines based on vote outcomes. Coordinate Digital Asset’s pipeline of proposals to the Canton Foundation, and help vet, document, and outline key issues in grant proposals from both DA and the broader community. Coordinate and document work and payment splits on joint grant proposals between Digital Asset and ecosystem partners. Operational Coordination Coordinate network upgrade rollouts and release communications across the Super Validator and Validator community. Take feedback from operators on improvements to network operations and governance processes. Community Operations and Engagement Host weekly Super Validator operator meetings, including preparing and validating agendas in advance. Administer shared communications systems (Slack channels, mailing lists, forums) in coordination with Canton Foundation staff and Super Validator representatives. Coordinate how Digital Asset staff answers questions and contributes to problem‑solving across community channels. Announce network upgrades, releases, and important operational changes to the validator community. Identify documentation gaps from community feedback and improve those documents directly. Job Benefits We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well‑being of our team members. Health and insurance benefits vary by region to ensure local relevance and compliance, and may include medical, dental, and vision coverage. Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire. Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact View email address on click.appcast.io. As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family‑friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements. Pay Transparency: The estimated salary range for this role, based in our New York City office, is $180,000 to $220,000. The range may vary if based outside the New York tri‑state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). Base salaries are determined during our interview process, during which we assess the candidate’s experience, skills, and capabilities against internal peers and the scope and responsibilities of the position. #J-18808-Ljbffr Digital Asset