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Director, Asset Management Risk (Blockchain & Digital Assets)

Fidelity

Fidelity

Jersey City, NJ, USA · Merrimack, NH, USA · Westlake, TX, USA · smithfield, ri, usa
USD 110k-222k / year
Posted on Feb 27, 2026
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Job Description:

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 Expertise & Skills You Bring

Asset Management & Risk Leadership

  • 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.

Digital Asset Domain Expertise

  • 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.

DeFi & Protocol‑Level Knowledge

  • 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.

Market Structure & Trading Venues Knowledge

  • Strong knowledge of centralized exchanges, counterparty evaluations, and venue due diligence.
  • Understanding of decentralized market structure, routing, settlement, and on‑chain execution considerations.

Risk & Control Expertise for Digital Asset Products

  • 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.

Regulatory & Compliance Insight

  • 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.

Cross‑Functional Leadership & Communication

  • 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.

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.

The base salary range for this position is $110,000-$222,000 per year.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles. Please consult with your recruiter for the specific expectations for this position.

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Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

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Join us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2026. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

Giving back to our communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,500 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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