Senior Product Manager, Fortary

About the role

This role sits at the heart of Fortary's institutional expansion within the Ava Labs ecosystem. You will architect the long-term vision for trading, lending, and liquidity products designed for sophisticated financial institutions. The position requires you to act as a business strategist who translates complex market dynamics into scalable, measurable digital asset solutions. You will own the complete product lifecycle from discovery through commercialization in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Collaboration will be cross-functional, requiring deep alignment with engineering, design, business development, and executive leadership teams. The role demands a rare blend of strategic foresight and operational rigor to define best-in-class offerings in a emerging market. You will be responsible for ensuring product investments directly support sustainable growth and regulatory adherence. Success will be measured by your ability to drive adoption and create commercial value for institutional clients worldwide.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Define and lead the long-term product vision, portfolio strategy, and investment priorities for Fortary's institutional trading, lending, and liquidity platform to ensure strict alignment with overarching company objectives and growth strategy, utilizing a build, buy, partner approach to capability expansion.
• Partner directly with executive leadership to shape overarching product strategy, prioritize critical investments, and drive strategic initiatives that accelerate Fortary's institutional business objectives and market position.
• Execute complex cross-functional initiatives in lockstep with engineering, business development, marketing, and design teams to deliver measurable customer outcomes and concrete business value.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses to uncover institutional client needs, intricate market structure nuances, and competitive dynamics to identify compelling new market opportunities and refine product strategy accordingly.
• Establish and nurture trusted relationships with key institutional clients and strategic partners to validate product direction, strengthen market adoption, and uncover adjacent growth opportunities.
• Assume ownership of product commercialization in partnership with executive leadership and business development, including crafting go-to-market strategy, defining product positioning, addressing pricing considerations, and ensuring successful product launches.
• Analyze and benchmark institutional competitors specifically within trading, lending, and liquidity to distinctly position Fortary's offerings and provide clear differentiation to clients.
• Develop, scale, and maintain core platform capabilities across Fortary, guaranteeing a seamless, secure, and high-quality user experience for all institutional interactions.
• Drive rigorous prioritization and investment decisions across a spectrum of product initiatives, carefully balancing customer value, technical complexity, regulatory requirements, and projected commercial impact.
• Spearhead the development and scaling of secure, reliable, and high-performance institutional platform capabilities specifically across trading, lending, liquidity, and related essential services.
• Exhibit adaptability and ownership to execute effectively within a fast-paced, evolving environment where priorities shift and rapid iteration is essential.
• Leverage deep expertise in institutional market structure to navigate workflow complexities and ensure product solutions solve real-world operational challenges.
• Synthesize intricate market dynamics and regulatory landscapes into coherent product requirements and strategic narratives for internal and external stakeholders.
• Champion data-driven decision making by establishing metrics and benchmarks to assess product performance and guide future investment choices.

Requirements

• Possess 10+ years of cumulative product management experience specifically within fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, or financial services sectors, demonstrating a consistent track record of delivering complex products.
• Hold prior business architect experience focused on building a product or platform path designed to support trading, lending, and liquidity operations within both traditional finance and digital asset environments.
• Bring direct experience in building trading, lending, and liquidity products targeted at institutional clients such as asset managers, hedge funds, banks, market makers, or fintech platforms.
• Demonstrate familiarity with institutional financial workflows, including but not limited to custody solutions, client onboarding procedures, compliance frameworks, regulatory reporting obligations, and trading and lending operational processes.
• Exhibit deep knowledge of trading systems and associated workflows, including execution mechanisms, liquidity access strategies, order management systems (OMS), and enterprise trading platforms.
• Show a proven ability to drive products through the full lifecycle from initial conception and discovery phases through to successful market launch and ongoing optimization.
• Have a history of successfully managing complex, cross-functional initiatives that require coordination across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Maintain strong written and verbal communication skills necessary to influence senior stakeholders and articulate sophisticated product strategies.

Practical notes

Hours: Full-time (40 hours per week).

Employment Type: Full-time.

Visa Sponsorship: Not available for this role at this time.

Application Deadline: None specified. Apply early to ensure full consideration.