Associate Director - Digital Operations

Clear Street•New York, NY

2d•$175,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem by replacing legacy infrastructure with a cloud-native clearing and custody system. Founded in 2018, Clear Street has built a fully integrated platform supporting billions in daily trading volume. The company combines skilled product and engineering talent with finance professionals to create a best-in-class client experience. The Digital Assets Operations team is a foundational part of this mission, bringing deep crypto operations experience from market-leading institutions. The team's leadership has extensive experience in prime brokerage, payments, exchange operations, and product development at the institutional level. This role offers the opportunity to join a group of top-tier digital assets professionals focused on building a market-leading product for both retail and institutional clients.

Requirements

At least five (5) years in financial services operations with a control-oriented background
Hands-on experience building and running a crypto operations function, ideally at a prime broker, custodian, or exchange
A genuine point of view on how institutional crypto operations should work, the conviction to push for it, and a track record of using AI, automation, and data to get there
Comfort operating close to risk in a fast-moving environment, with the judgment to know when to escalate and when to act
Clear, direct communication with clients, counterparties, cross-functional teams, and senior leadership

Responsibilities

Partner with Product and Engineering on the roadmap, serving as the operational voice in product development ensuring new features, workflows, and capabilities are designed with operational efficiency, scalability, and risk controls in mind from the start, not retrofitted after the fact.
Own all counterparty settlement execution across market makers, liquidity providers, exchanges, and custodians, handling incoming requests within pre-agreed timeframes and serving as the primary point of contact across a diverse counterparty portfolio spanning both fiat and crypto rails. Track and report against assigned operational KPIs.
Ensure trade, transfer, and inventory reconciliation across internal subsystems and external counterparties including banks and custodians, covering both on-chain crypto settlement and fiat payment flows across global payment rails. Identify breaks, resolve them in partnership with relevant teams, and continuously improve reconciliation completeness and robustness.
Monitor daily inventory needs across settlement, lending, and borrowing activity, including wallet rebalancing and liquidity threshold management across custodied assets, coordinating directly with Treasury Management.
Build and lead a high-performing operations team structured and staffed to operate effectively in a 24/7 market.
Partner closely with the Trading Desk, Product, and Customer Support teams to understand client expectations and ensure the Operations team consistently delivers with a client-first mindset.
Partner with Compliance and Risk to design pragmatic, effective controls suited to a fast-moving and evolving regulatory landscape. Develop trade operations processes built for regulatory compliance.
Build out a comprehensive control framework including policies, procedures, desk manuals, and daily control monitoring.
Liaise with Finance to ensure accurate trade and settlement data is delivered on time and consistently.