Director, Asset Management Risk – Blockchain, Digital Assets

Role Overview

• 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