At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry’s leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
About the Role: Business Operations Lead, Prime
We are seeking an experienced and highly analytical and hands-on Trading Business Operations Lead to lead the operational and non-trading functions for Anchorage Digital Prime business.
Operational and Trade Lifecycle Management
- Complex Trade Vetting: Act as the orchestrator for non-standard, complex, or high-value trades (e.g., structured derivative products, non-vanilla financing arrangements) across all three desks.
- Process Design and Implementation: Collaborate with Front Office and Middle/Back Office to design, document, and implement robust, scalable, and efficient operational workflows.
- Issue Resolution: Be the senior escalation point for trade breaks, settlement failures, reconciliation issues, and other operational delays, driving swift resolution.
Risk, Compliance, and Governance
- Risk Partnership: Support the Head of Global Markets in maintaining a close relationship with the Risk team, ensuring that all operational workflows are built with risk mitigation as a core requirement.
- Compliance Alignment: Ensure all trading activities adhere to internal policies, regulatory requirements, and jurisdictional rules.
- Counterparty Management: Manage relationships and necessary documentation (e.g., ISDA, CSA, GMRA, MSLA) with prime brokers and custodians.
Business Strategy and Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Scaling: Partner with the Head of Technology to plan and execute infrastructure upgrades and capacity planning to support desk growth and evolving complexity.
- Vendor Management: Evaluate, onboard, and manage external technology and service providers critical to the trading and operations function.
Technical Skills:
- Applied Expertise: Leverage knowledge of Global Markets, including Spot, Prime Financing, and Derivatives, to provide strategic direction and operational guidance.
- Risk Framework Support: Assist the Head of Global Markets in staying on top of divisional risk, implementing the monitoring systems and controls required to maintain a strong partnership with the Risk team.
- Infrastructure Architect: Architect and launch new, high-impact business frameworks, integrating market activities with Product and Engineering teams to deliver scalable infrastructure-as-a-service.
- Technical Product Depth: Develop a deep working knowledge of the technical architecture of our products to support both current revenue and future pipeline development.
- Strategic Writing: Demonstrate strong writing and presentation skills to document execution roadmaps and business plans for executive leadership.
Complexity and Impact of Work
- Life-cycle Path Ownership: Serve as the path owner for strategy execution, determining the methods necessary to move the business forward against internal deadlines and market shifts.
- Risk and Compliance Alignment: Support the Head in proactively identifying bottlenecks and operational risks, ensuring the division remains compliant with global regulatory requirements.
- NPC Leadership: Lead the internal New Product Committee process, conducting thorough due diligence on the operational, compliance, and legal impact of proposed new products.
- 24/7 Operational Management: Navigate the unique challenges of a global, 24/7 market, resolving senior escalations for trade breaks, settlement failures, or reconciliation issues.
- Selling Ahead Support: Support the commercial team by ensuring the infrastructure is capable of delivering on future-state products while maintaining excellence in current-state services.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Cross-Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate across Sales, Legal, Risk, and Compliance to define strategy, prioritization, and resolve roadblocks.
- Integration Mastery: Cultivate deep knowledge of core operations, customer experience, and compliance to ensure new Global Markets services are seamlessly integrated.
- Strategic Prioritization: Direct the prioritization and development of key product features and automation from a strategy and business perspective.
- Knowledge Sharing: Play an active role in promoting and growing the Global Markets division within the broader strategic priorities and Product and Engineering goals of the firm.
Communication and Influence:
- Strategic Documentation: Independently document and execute strategic proposals, business plans, and execution roadmaps.
- Institutional Client Discussions: Independently lead client-facing discussions and oversee business line deals, establishing feedback loops on services and products.
- Cross-Functional Consensus: Cross direct team and functional boundaries to gain consensus, identify solutions, and present to senior stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Mentorship and Best Practices: Mentor and guide team members on internal best practices and team strategies to promote discipline against strategic goals.
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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