Head of Digital Asset Operating Platform – Blockchain-Enabled Operations
$185,000–$400,000 year
On-siteChicago, Illinois, United States or Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Architect the end-to-end operating platform for digital asset investments, defining multi-year roadmaps that integrate fund administration, transfer agency, and on-chain accounting with institutional-grade controls. Lead multidisciplinary teams across operations, technology, and compliance to build core ledger, data, and oracle frameworks that reconcile off-chain records with smart-contract data. Establish governance structures, risk policies, and decision-making frameworks for tokenized funds, private credit, and ETFs while ensuring audit readiness with SEC and CFTC standards. Represent the firm in industry working groups to shape standards for on-chain fund services and establish strategic partnerships with custodians and infrastructure providers. Operate within a matrixed organization to align senior stakeholders across traditional and blockchain-native functions.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in asset management, fund administration, or financial-operations roles
- at least 5 years in digital-asset, cryptocurrency, or blockchain-based finance
- Proven record of designing and implementing large-scale operating platforms supporting both traditional and digital assets
- Direct experience building and scaling teams and organizations, including defining structure, roles, processes, and performance governance
- Demonstrated success working across large, matrixed organizations with multiple senior stakeholders in a consensus-driven culture, achieving alignment and results
- Deep expertise in fund accounting, valuation, investor servicing, and transfer agency for traditional investment products
- Proven track record building infrastructure for cryptocurrency investment operations, including wallet management, custody, settlement, and on-chain reconciliation
- Strong understanding of blockchain architecture, smart-contract design, tokenization standards, and interoperability protocols
- Familiarity with DeFi primitives (staking, liquidity pools, lending protocols) and their integration into institutional frameworks
- Expertise in designing data architecture, reconciliation, and control frameworks
- Proven ability to translate strategic vision into executable programs through structured governance, roadmap execution, and stakeholder management
- Visionary yet pragmatic leader who combines strategic insight with operational execution
- Exceptional communicator capable of aligning diverse senior stakeholders around a common mission
- Deep curiosity about how blockchain transforms investment operations and a disciplined approach to risk and compliance
- Strong sense of ownership and commitment to building institutional infrastructure for the next generation of finance
- 100% onsite presence
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