The opportunity

A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027.

This is one of the two most important hires the organisation will make, alongside the Project Manager. We are hiring a Product Owner to own the product in its entirety: the platform itself, the commercial proposition wrapped around it, the offerings made to each participant type, the fee schedule, the rulebook, the participant documentation, and the operating model that governs how participants interact with the platform. The role sets the what; the Project Manager delivers the when.

The post-holder must be a deep domain expert in central securities depository, custody, and post-trade infrastructure: fluent in settlement, registry, asset servicing, corporate actions,...