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
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