Product Manager, Off-chain data strategy and acquisition

CipherTrace, a Mastercard company, is a rapidly growing leader in cryptocurrency intelligence and compliance. Our team has introduced novel solutions to challenges including sanctions compliance for DeFi and the Crypto Travel Rule. Our mission is to grow the blockchain economy by making crypto safe for users and trusted by governments. CipherTrace operates on a global scale to assist banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, law enforcement agencies, regulators, VASPs, and businesses in preventing fraud, human trafficking, money laundering, and other illicit activity where cryptocurrency is involved.
The ideal candidate should be a passionate, self-motivated, team player with experience working in a quickly evolving environment and who has a willingness to work and learn in a collaborative organization.
The Product Manager for CipherTrace's off-chain data strategy and acquisition will have overall ownership of CipherTrace's off-chain data strategy and roadmap, driving off-chain data collection prioritization, information architecture, and third-party data provider assessment and acquisition. They will quantify data impacts and initiative tradeoffs, play a key role in data structure and organization, work with first and third-party content feeds and metadata, and assist in optimizing in-house data collection efforts. They will also propose, review, and assist in negotiating agreements with third-party data providers, following Mastercard processes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal stakeholders to fully understand business strategy and identify off-chain data requirements in support of new and existing market offerings
• Develop and prioritize data sourcing strategy to address data requirements
• Maintain detailed understanding of existing data assets, become a subject matter expert on internal data assets
• Continuously evaluate productization features and project list, prioritize and plan roadmaps for internal data assets
• Drive and Influence cross-functional teams to execute on data asset improvement projects
• Maintain compliance with global data privacy regulations
• Build and expand marketplace knowledge to identify and build a pipeline of appropriate external sources of data that address business needs, accuracy and compliance requirements and cost effectiveness targets
• Acquire required data via execution of data acquisition process, including vendor diligence, data evaluation, negotiation and contracting
• Monitor ongoing quality and performance of data
• Proactively manage complexities of changing relationships stemming from competitive or financial concerns to ensure long term access to critical data assets
• Manage multiple files and associated contracts, seeking to maximize value, diversify supplier and customer risk and eliminate unnecessary duplication
• Identify new data from new and existing suppliers and customers, and socialize, educate, and inform verticals and product management of potential value
• Manage spend on existing and new sources of data per budget
• Prepare monthly reports demonstrating achievement of objectives, highlighting risk and outlining revised plans

Requirements and Skills

• At least 2+ years of product management related work experience in the following:
• Prioritization of, ingestion, extraction, and analysis of structured and unstructured datasets of any size (Big Data is a plus) from a variety of sources
• Research and management of partnerships with business data suppliers in support of sales, marketing, and product development strategiesThe harvest and use of information via public websites
• You have demonstrated the ability to use data to drive decisions and back up assumptions and recommendations
• You have demonstrated success building and executing product roadmaps aligned with business requirements and technology capabilities in global businesses
• A strong understanding of the secondary data landscape and familiarity with how data is collected via different channelsFamiliarity with privacy and data localization and protection requirements 
• The ability to quickly develop and apply business rules against a sample dataset to estimate quality and potential impact on the business is critical
• Hands-on experience working with data integrations, SDKs, APIs, in the context of Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and other cloud-native technologies is a plus

Perks & BenefitsWe offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salaries, bonuses, medical, dental, and vision - which cover domestic partners as well - plus life and disability coverage, 20 vacation days, and a 401K matching plan.