Director, Asset Management Risk, Blockchain & Digital Assets

Director, Asset Management Risk, Blockchain & Digital Assets at Fidelity Investments

Fidelity Investments is 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 pivotal 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. Your contribution will help the firm thoughtfully scale its digital asset capabilities while maintaining a resilient, future-ready risk posture.

The Expertise & Skills You Bring

This role demands a blend of deep asset management risk leadership and specialized digital asset domain expertise.

Asset Management & Risk Leadership

• Over 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.
• A profound understanding of how digital assets introduce new considerations into market risk, liquidity risk, valuation risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk.
• Demonstrated 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.
• Ability to evaluate risks in tokenization and assess tokenization mechanics, mapping them to operational, liquidity, and regulatory risk.
• Expertise analyzing staking models (e.g., delegated, native, validator operations), understanding 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

The Asset Management Risk team 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; eligible candidates may also receive bonus or other variable compensation.

Fidelity offers a comprehensive benefits package including health care coverage, emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match, and educational assistance. Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. Please consult with your recruiter for the specific expectations for this position.

Key skills/competency

• Digital Asset Risk
• Blockchain Technology
• Asset Management
• Risk Frameworks
• DeFi Protocols
• Regulatory Compliance
• Investment Oversight
• Operational Risk
• Liquidity Risk
• Cross-functional Leadership