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 only 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.
The Global Analytics team applies quantitative and technological expertise to empower the firm with advanced models, tools, and other analytical resources. We are seeking a Model Validation and Research Quant within our Economic & Regulatory Analysis pillar. This pillar of the Global Analytics team oversees the Model Risk Management program at Anchorage Digital Bank and provides expert guidance for issues related to capital planning, risk management, and regulatory matters. Given this broad mandate, this role requires dexterity due to the variety of analytics projects we undertake to support different functions.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, R, etc.
- Experience in SQL programming and working with large data sets.
- Skills in statistics or quantitative modeling (stochastic and econometric), research, and data analysis.
- Experience in risk management methods (e.g., VaR, expected shortfall, stress testing, backtesting, scenario analysis).
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Drive model validation work independently, including leading from end-to-end with little oversight and coordinating activities of other team members.
- Assist with implementing and maintaining sound model governance, which includes model controls, inventory, reporting, and policies and procedures.
- Perform quantitative analytics and research to support business operations, financial forecasts, capital planning, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
- Assist in development and maintenance of statistical models relevant for market risk, credit risk, and stress testing purposes, including margin, pricing, and VaR applications.
- Participate in all aspects of the model life cycle, including design, implementation, testing, production, validation, and performance monitoring.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Have a deep knowledge of the strategy of Anchorage Digital and its various business lines.
- Familiarity with U.S. banking regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations, and understand their impact on the organization.
Communication and Influence:
- Demonstrate capability in writing, editing, or reviewing technical documents suitable for various contexts as relevant (e.g., regulatory or banking, internal or external stakeholders).
- Produce clear reports and presentations describing quantitative analytics projects and their results, interpreting them for senior management.
- Provide formal or on-the-job training to other staff on technical topics.
- Contributes to cross-functional projects, collaborates with their team and adjacent teams to solve problems, and assists or teaches other team members.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- Masters or Ph.D. degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, applied mathematics, economics, quantitative finance, and operations research.
- Direct work experience in compliance modeling and systems, risk measurement and management, and regulatory capital requirements.
- Hands-on experience in the entire model development lifecycle including research, implementation, ongoing monitoring, and production maintenance.
- Experience in writing, editing, or reviewing technical documents suitable for regulatory or banking context.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- You’ve kept up to date with the proliferation of blockchain and crypto innovations.
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. 🙂
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 300 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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