Director, Asset Management Risk (Blockchain & Digital Assets)
About The Position
Blockchain and Digital Assets Risk – Asset Management Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position The Role Seeking a highly experienced and visionary Director of Digital Assets Risk to lead risk oversight across the full spectrum of digital asset investment products, tokenized structures, and emerging blockchain‑enabled strategies. In this role, you will define the risk framework, governance model, and control environment that supports the rapid evolution of digital asset strategies across portfolios, funds, and investment platforms. You will provide senior‑level risk expertise across investment, product, trading, operations, legal/compliance, and technology groups—ensuring digital asset innovation is supported by robust risk measurement, due diligence, and oversight. You will help the firm thoughtfully scale its digital asset capabilities while maintaining a resilient, future‑ready risk posture. The Team Asset Management Risk provides direction to management and business units in proactively identifying and monitoring risks to protect the interests of the firm. To deliver this goal, Asset Management Risk is responsible for identifying, analyzing, aggregating, and reporting on significant risk events and helping management develop and improve their controls and processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Asset Management risk, investment oversight, portfolio risk, or product risk, with several years at the director or senior leadership level.
- 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 (e.g., delegated, native, validator operations)
- 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 (staking, liquidity pools, lending protocols) 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 (custody, key management, settlement flows) into operational risk assessments.
- Understanding of evolving digital asset regulatory frameworks, including implications for: tokenized funds, stablecoins and yield products, staking services, and digital asset custody
- Ability to guide teams through regulatory uncertainties and interpret regulatory updates into clear risk guidance.
- Skilled at influencing senior leaders across investment management, research, trading, product strategy, operations, legal, compliance, and technology groups.
- Exceptional communication skills—capable of distilling complex digital asset risk topics into clear, decision‑ready insights for committees and executives.
- Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and comfortable driving clarity in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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