Director – Project Manager Digital Asset Transformation, London

Overview

As Director of Digital Asset Transformation, you shape and lead strategic digital asset initiatives within a regulated banking setting. You collaborate with senior stakeholders across the Digital Asset Platform and broader organization to assess opportunities, translate regulatory and market developments into actionable plans, and drive measurable business outcomes. You’ll define operating models and governance, ensuring scalable delivery across regions. This role offers the chance to influence how digital assets reshape markets and infrastructure within a major financial institution.

Pay / Benefits

• Private healthcare for you and family
• Competitive pension plan
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible benefits and wellbeing support
• Employee assistance program
• Volunteer and charitable giving programs

Responsibilities

• Lead priority digital asset initiatives from assessment to launch
• Evaluate opportunities across tokenisation, digital securities, stablecoins, digital collateral, custody, settlement, and market infrastructure
• Develop investment cases and senior management materials
• Translate market, regulatory and technology developments into actionable plans
• Define client value, commercial rationale, and delivery requirements with business leaders
• Build alignment across business, product, technology, operations and corporate functions
• Lead regulatory, governance and control processes with robust documentation
• Oversee milestones, risks, issues, and key decisions to ensure delivery
• Shape scalable operating models, processes, controls, and implementation readiness
• Direct cross-functional workstreams ensuring commercial viability and regional alignment

Key requirements

• Deep digital asset knowledge and strategic transformation experience in regulated financial services
• Experience delivering initiatives across digital assets, tokenisation, digital securities, distributed ledger technology, or market infrastructure
• Strong commercial acumen, ability to develop business cases and link strategy to outcomes
• Understanding of governance, risk, controls and regulatory requirements in banking
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs across business, product, technology, operations, legal, compliance and risk
• Experience interpreting regulatory developments into business impacts and executable plans
• Senior stakeholder management and influencing skills with ability to align diverse functions
• Experience developing operating models, roadmaps, governance proposals and senior materials
• Strategic thinking with ability to navigate evolving or ambiguous environments
• Clear communication and delivery leadership across multiple workstreams

• Stakeholder management
• Influencing and alignment
• Strategic thinking
• Distributed ledger technology
• Digital asset systems and use cases
• Tokenisation and digital securities

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