About the role

  • Director of Digital Assets Risk overseeing risk management for digital asset investment products. Defining frameworks and providing expertise across investment, trading, and compliance groups.

Responsibilities

  • Lead risk oversight across the full spectrum of digital asset investment products, tokenized structures, and emerging blockchain‑enabled strategies
  • Define the risk framework, governance model, and control environment for digital asset strategies
  • Provide senior-level risk expertise across investment, product, trading, operations, legal/compliance, and technology groups
  • Ensure digital asset innovation is supported by robust risk measurement, due diligence, and oversight
  • Help the firm thoughtfully scale its digital asset capabilities while maintaining a resilient, future‑ready risk posture

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Asset Management risk, investment oversight, portfolio risk, or product risk
  • Deep understanding of how digital assets introduce new considerations into market risk, liquidity risk, valuation risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk
  • Ability to design and implement risk programs for new product types, evolving market structures, and innovative investment solutions
  • Knowledge of tokenized treasury products and digital cash equivalents
  • Experience with digital wrappers for traditional funds
  • Experience evaluating risks in tokenization
  • Ability to assess tokenization mechanics and map them to operational, liquidity, and regulatory risk
  • Expertise analyzing staking models
  • Understanding of locking periods, slashing risk, validator uptime, liquidity mismatches, and smart contract dependencies
  • Strong understanding of blockchain architecture, smart-contract design, tokenization standards, and interoperability protocols
  • Familiarity with DeFi primitives and their integration into institutional frameworks
  • Strong knowledge of centralized exchanges, counterparty evaluations, and venue due diligence
  • Understanding of decentralized market structure, routing, settlement, and on-chain execution considerations
  • Strong grounding in risk assessment frameworks, scenario analysis, controls testing, resiliency evaluations, and incident response for digital assets
  • Proven capability in conducting third-party risk assessments of custodians, on-chain data providers, trading venues, and staking-as-a-service partners
  • Ability to convert complex blockchain mechanics into operational risk assessments
  • Understanding of evolving digital asset regulatory frameworks

Benefits

  • comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
  • market-leading retirement
  • generous paid time off and parental leave
  • charitable giving employee match program
  • educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career

Job title

Director, Asset Management Risk – Blockchain, Digital Assets

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$110,000 - $222,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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