Digital Payments and Tokenized Assets Leader

National Bank of Canada; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Flexible schedule

Professional development

Job summary

National Bank of Canada is seeking a Digital Payments and Tokenized Assets Leader to define how digital money, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and distributed ledger technologies can transform payment flows, settlement models, and client experiences.

In this role you will shape strategy, develop a capabilities roadmap, and build partnerships across the financial ecosystem while promoting responsible innovation and flexible work arrangements, including a hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with significant experience in strategy, technology, or financial services.
• Experience developing, launching, or scaling products, services, or infrastructure related to payments, digital assets, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, tokenization, blockchain, or distributed ledger technologies.
• Strong understanding of regulatory, risk, compliance, financial crime, and prudential considerations applicable to digital assets, tokenized money, payment systems, and emerging financial market infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Bank’s strategy for digital payments and tokenized assets payments to support the evolution of payment and settlement models.
• Develop and evolve the roadmap of capabilities required to deliver digital payment solutions, including connectivity, liquidity management, interoperability, and integration with existing payment rails.
• Establish governance, risk management, compliance, and control frameworks adapted to digital assets and evolving regulatory environments.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders to accelerate the safe and scalable adoption of innovative payment solutions.
• Identify, evaluate, and bring to market high-value use cases in digital payments and tokenized assets.
• Mobilize multidisciplinary teams around a common vision that promotes responsible innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Payments strategy

Tokenized assets

Regulatory risk

Stakeholder management

Agile leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Blockchain platforms

Job description

As a Digital Payments and Tokenized Assets Leader at National Bank, you will play a key strategic role in defining how digital money, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and distributed ledger technologies can transform payment flows, settlement models, and client experiences. Drawing on your experience in payments strategy, digital product development, financial market infrastructure, and technology ecosystem management, you will help position the Bank at the forefront of responsible innovation in tokenized payments and digital assets.

Your Role

• Define and lead the Bank’s strategy for digital payments and tokenized assets payments to support the evolution of payment and settlement models.
• Develop and evolve the roadmap of capabilities required to deliver digital payment solutions, including connectivity, liquidity management, interoperability, and integration with existing payment rails.
• Establish governance, risk management, compliance, and control frameworks adapted to digital assets and evolving regulatory environments.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders to accelerate the safe and scalable adoption of innovative payment solutions.
• Identify, evaluate, and bring to market high-value use cases in digital payments and tokenized assets.
• Mobilize multidisciplinary teams around a common vision that promotes responsible innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Your Team

Within the Payments team is made up of specialists who work in an agile, proactive, and collaborative manner to seize opportunities, remain at the forefront of market trends, and continuously improve the way we work.

Within this sector, you will contribute to strategic initiatives that are shaping the future of financial services. You will collaborate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to accelerate innovation and create value for our clients.

We strive to offer you maximum flexibility to support your quality of life. This includes a hybrid work environment and a flexible, adaptable schedule.

The Bank values continuous development and internal mobility. Our personalized training programs, based on learning through action, allow you to master your role and develop new areas of expertise. Tools such as the Data Academy, language training, the Harvard Learning Center, and coaching and mentoring support are available to you at all times.

Prerequisites

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field combined with significant experience in strategy, technology, or financial services.
• Proven experience developing, launching, or scaling products, services, or infrastructure related to payments, digital assets, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, tokenization, blockchain, or distributed ledger technologies.
• Strong understanding of regulatory, Solid understanding of regulatory, risk, compliance, financial crime, and prudential considerations applicable to digital assets, tokenized money, payment systems, and emerging financial market infrastructures.
• Experience building strategic partnerships and managing complex stakeholder ecosystems.
• In-depth knowledge of payment technology platforms, digital asset infrastructure, security, resilience, interoperability, data flows, and integration between traditional banking systems and blockchain-based networks.
  

As a Digital Payments and Tokenized Assets Leader at National Bank, you will play a key strategic role in defining how digital money, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and distributed ledger technologies can transform payment flows, settlement models, and client experiences. Drawing on your experience in payments strategy, digital product development, financial market infrastructure, and technology ecosystem management, you will help position the Bank at the forefront of responsible innovation in tokenized payments and digital assets.

Your Role

• Define and lead the Bank’s strategy for digital payments and tokenized assets payments to support the evolution of payment and settlement models.
• Develop and evolve the roadmap of capabilities required to deliver digital payment solutions, including connectivity, liquidity management, interoperability, and integration with existing payment rails.
• Establish governance, risk management, compliance, and control frameworks adapted to digital assets and evolving regulatory environments.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders to accelerate the safe and scalable adoption of innovative payment solutions.
• Identify, evaluate, and bring to market high-value use cases in digital payments and tokenized assets.
• Mobilize multidisciplinary teams around a common vision that promotes responsible innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Your Team

Within the Payments team is made up of specialists who work in an agile, proactive, and collaborative manner to seize opportunities, remain at the forefront of market trends, and continuously improve the way we work.

Within this sector, you will contribute to strategic initiatives that are shaping the future of financial services. You will collaborate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to accelerate innovation and create value for our clients.

We strive to offer you maximum flexibility to support your quality of life. This includes a hybrid work environment and a flexible, adaptable schedule.

The Bank values continuous development and internal mobility. Our personalized training programs, based on learning through action, allow you to master your role and develop new areas of expertise. Tools such as the Data Academy, language training, the Harvard Learning Center, and coaching and mentoring support are available to you at all times.

Prerequisites

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field combined with significant experience in strategy, technology, or financial services.
• Proven experience developing, launching, or scaling products, services, or infrastructure related to payments, digital assets, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, tokenization, blockchain, or distributed ledger technologies.
• Strong understanding of regulatory, Solid understanding of regulatory, risk, compliance, financial crime, and prudential considerations applicable to digital assets, tokenized money, payment systems, and emerging financial market infrastructures.
• Experience building strategic partnerships and managing complex stakeholder ecosystems.
• In-depth knowledge of payment technology platforms, digital asset infrastructure, security, resilience, interoperability, data flows, and integration between traditional banking systems and blockchain-based networks.
  

Languages: French, English
Reason to require this language: you will need to work closely with our colleagues outside Quebec.
Required skills: Business Alignment, Critical Thinking, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Decision Making, Emotional Intelligence, Innovation Management, Managerial Courage, Mobilization, Partner Development, Resiliency, Risk Management, Strategic Vision, Strategy Execution, Stress Management

Your benefits

In addition to competitive compensation, upon hiring you’ll be eligible for a wide range of flexible benefits to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family such as:

• Health and wellness program, including many options
• Flexible group insurance
• Generous pension plan
• Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Employee and family assistance program
• Preferential banking services
• Involvement in community initiatives
• Telemedicine service
• Virtual sleep clinic

We have an offer that keeps up with trends as well as your needs and those of your family.

Our dynamic work environments and cutting-edge collaboration tools foster a positive employee experience. We value employees’ ideas. Whether through our surveys or programs, regular feedback and ongoing communication are encouraged.

Making a bold move in a people-first environment

We’re a bank on a human scale that stands out for its courage, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. Our mission is to have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our core values of partnership, agility, and empowerment inspire us, and inclusion is central to our commitments. We aim, wherever possible, to provide a barrier-free and accessible environment to all employees.

We strive to provide accessibility measures throughout the recruitment process within the limits of our available resources. If you require accommodations, feel free to let us know during our initial conversations. We welcome all candidates! What can you bring to our team?