Who we are
- Shape a brighter financial future with us.
- Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
About the Role
- We’re hiring a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of our stablecoin and crypto platform products.
- In this role, you will own the systems that power issuance, custody, movement, and settlement of regulated, asset-backed digital currencies. You’ll be responsible for defining and executing SoFi's stablecoin strategy across both blockchain and traditional financial rails, with a strong focus on accuracy, resilience, and regulatory alignment.
- This is a senior individual contributor role for a product leader who thrives at the intersection of financial infrastructure, distributed systems, and regulatory requirements. You will work deeply with engineering to shape architecture and long-term technical investments, while partnering closely with compliance, legal, risk, and security to ensure our stablecoin capabilities meet the highest standards of safety, transparency, and control.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for stablecoin issuance and lifecycle management, including minting, burning, redemption, and supply governance.
- Define and deliver on-chain and off-chain settlement systems that enable reliable, high-throughput movement of digital dollars across blockchain and traditional financial rails.
- Partner closely with engineering to drive core architectural decisions and guide long-term infrastructure investments.
- Engage with risk, compliance, and security teams to align platform capabilities with regulatory requirements (e.g., KYC/AML, travel rule).
- Collaborate with internal crypto product teams to ensure platform solutions unlock new product opportunities.
- Design funds-flow controls, transaction limits, and circuit breakers to support safe operation under normal and stressed conditions.
- Define success metrics and rigorously measure performance, efficiency, and system health.
- Lead complex build-vs-buy evaluations, including vendor assessments for custody and blockchain infrastructure.
- Stay current with emerging crypto technologies, protocols, custody models, and regulatory changes that may impact platform strategy.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of complex financial or infrastructure products operating at scale.
- Proven track record launching, or operating stablecoins or asset-backed digital currencies, including hands-on involvement in issuance, redemption, or on-chain value transfer.
- Strong technical fluency across distributed systems, APIs, and blockchain-based transaction flows, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and design discussions with engineering.
- Experience defining and managing mint/burn controls, funds-flow rules, transaction limits, and operational safeguards for digital money products.
- Experience partnering with engineering to navigate architecture decisions and technical trade-offs.
- Demonstrated ability to balance long-term platform investments with near-term delivery needs.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with engineering, security, compliance, legal, and analytics.
- Strong judgment balancing regulatory rigor, system reliability, and product velocity in ambiguous and high-stakes environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify technical complexity for diverse stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant experience around launching/operating a Stablecoin, 3rd party integrations with custodians, liquidity providers, trade aggregators, knowledge of both retail and institutional trading, knowledge of secured lending.
- Experience with crypto infrastructure products such as custody, wallets, or blockchain nodes.
- Familiarity with crypto-specific regulatory frameworks (KYC/AML, custody rules, travel rule).
- Background working in fintech, payments infrastructure, or digital asset companies.
- Passionate about leveraging crypto and DeFi technologies to modernize and expand the capabilities of traditional finance.
