Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Digital Asset is a company focused on transforming financial markets through innovative technologies. The Principal Product Manager for the Canton Network Ecosystem will act as the primary liaison between Digital Asset's product and engineering teams and the Canton Network ecosystem, ensuring effective communication and coordination of community operations and governance.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 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.
- Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact recruiting@digitalasset.com.
- 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.
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