Managing Director, Global Markets Strategy and Execution
Anchorage Digital
Operations
United States
With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot.
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.