Standard Chartered
As the Head of Digital Assets, you will manage and ensure competitive positioning of the Group’s Digital Assets strategy for Europe and Americas. Your role as a key strategic advisor and trusted partner to our leadership teams will embed Digital Assets (DA) adoption and competence. Based in New York, you will take ownership of executing global and local DA initiatives and regulatory and industry engagement on DA. You will also play a key role in supporting client coverage in DA related discussions.
- Strategic Client Engagement: Identify market opportunities and prioritise initiatives with the highest potential commercial return. Cultivate high-level relationships, moving beyond transactional interactions to become a consistent value-added partner. Engage with clients and industry leaders on key industry issues.
- Value Added Advisory: Confident in advising country leadership teams, policy makers and regulators as a DA subject matter expert for the region.
- Business Growth Initiatives: Work across business lines and functions to coordinate the execution and delivery of Digital Asset capabilities. Drive growth by assessing risk and appropriate levels of return in line with market leading best practice. Increase SCB's proposition as the best provider for Digital Assets though throught leadership and broad engagement across the US and Europe.
- Stakeholder Relationships: Anticipate stakeholder needs and deliver tailored solutions. Collaborate with Technology and Operations functions to implement appropriate frameworks and operational infrastructure to deliver Digital Asset initiatives in the region.
- Risk Engagement: Champion the development of tools and processes for the group such as Coin Assessment and Higher Risk Framework and engage in constructive dialogue to support key risk and compliance stakeholders.
- Relationship Building Skills: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong client relationships at the most senior levels.
- Commercial Initiative: Established experience executing business plans and initiatives within high growth companies and/or Financial Services.
- Extensive Industry Expertise: Proven background in Digital Assets, Crypto and Web3. Fintech would also be a considered advantage.
- Strong Regulatory Knowledge: Proven track record of successful regulatory engagement and knowledge of the crypto and DA regulatory landscape.
- Certifications: Hold relevant Crypto/ Blockchain certifications. Legal, Compliance and Finance certifications will be well regarded.
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
Expected annual base pay range for the role is USD350,000 to USD500,000. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations.
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