Product Manager/Owner, Crypto as a Service

Who we are

Cross River is a highly profitable fast-growing financial technology company that helps clients to deliver financial solutions that empower consumers anytime, everywhere. We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services.

We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, KKR, Ribbit Capital; our partners include companies such as Affirm, Stripe, Coinbase, and many others. We have over 600 employees, originated over $55B in loans, and supported 480K small businesses through the recent paycheck protection program. We have been recognized for the third year in a row by CB Insights as one of the 250 best global FinTech.

We are now committed to build products for companies who want to bring crypto to the next 1B people: we are uniquely positioned to succeed because of our technology, experience, and strong relationships with market participants and regulators.

Cross River offers amongst the best benefits in the industry: Family Medical Plans with minimal outlay to the employee, generous time off, matching 401K, pre-IPO equity, flexible and hybrid work culture, a shuttle from Manhattan to the office, and many more perks and amenities

What we’re looking for

We are currently looking for a Product Owners to lead various initiatives and scale this team. You will be at the forefront of field development in delivering our crypto products, working closely with our capital markets team on business-driven development.

You will coordinate a cross-functional team of Engineers, Designers and Product Marketers to bring the product to life. You will join an exciting, newly formed, crypto team that deeply cares about growing with people who question assumptions, have strong judgement, execute fast, take ownership, act responsibly, help the team advance and improve its standards.

You can learn more about our culture and the interview process here.

You will:

• Build our first Crypto as a Service offering by integrating vendors’ best-in-class custody, trading, staking APIs and wrapping them into b2b2c APIs connected to our core banking layer
• Work on one of the products with the highest impact on the company’s bottom line
• Collect and prioritize requirements by partnering with our sales force, running studies, interviewing customers
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability

Responsibilities

• Develop products and features for our new crypto lending offering
• Work closely with our Product and Capital Markets teams to define feature specifications
• Write BRDs and PRDs to align the organization, prioritize, and define engineering requirements
• Define and build products for internal and external business customers
• Set directions and goals for the team regarding project impact, product quality, and product efficiency
• Produce product documentation, tutorials, blogposts, to help our partners minimize their time to market
• Facilitate new team members onboarding and provide mentorship

Minimum qualifications

• Demonstrated success in building a product
• Experience leading major initiatives successfully

Bonus

• Experience building a margin / lending product
• Experience building business products in fintech or crypto
• Experience leading the development of back and front end products
• Experience building and managing a team