Digital Assets Lead

Huxley; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Huxley seeks an experienced leader to develop and execute a Virtual Assets and Digital Innovation program within a major financial institution. The role focuses on tokenization, blockchain-enabled services, digital money, and new payment tech, driving pilot initiatives and long-term adoption.

The candidate will explore market opportunities, monitor regulatory developments, and collaborate with regulators, fintechs, and technology partners to advance digital assets and innovative payments

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience across banking, financial services, fintech, payments, blockchain, or emerging technology environments.
• Experience delivering complex technology or innovation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of banking infrastructure, payments, settlement models, and regulatory environments.
• Hands-on exposure to digital assets, tokenization, blockchain technologies, CBDCs, digital wallets, or related ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the organization's roadmap for virtual assets and blockchain-related initiatives.
• Identify opportunities across tokenized assets, tokenized deposits, digital payments, and distributed ledger technologies.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of innovation initiatives, from concept development and feasibility analysis through pilot execution and scaling recommendations.
• Partner with external technology providers, fintech firms, industry participants, and strategic partners to evaluate and implement new solutions.
• Engage with regulatory stakeholders and ensure initiatives align with relevant compliance and governance requirements.
• Coordinate internal approval processes, risk reviews, and governance activities for new use cases and pilot programs.
• Work closely with teams across Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Payments, Treasury, Operations, and Business functions.
• Translate complex blockchain and digital asset concepts into practical use cases that deliver business value.
• Assess impacts on payment flows, settlement processes, wallet infrastructure, liquidity management, reconciliation, and operational controls.
• Build business cases and evaluate opportunities from strategic, financial, operational, and risk perspectives.
• Monitor developments within digital assets, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenization, and emerging payment ecosystems.
• Represent the virtual assets function in senior stakeholder discussions and industry engagements.
• Maintain clear documentation covering assessments, pilot outcomes, governance decisions, and implementation recommendations.
• Support internal awareness and capability building related to digital assets and blockchain technologies.

Skills

Blockchain expertise

Financial services knowledge

Stakeholder leadership

Job description

We are seeking an experienced professional to lead the development and execution of a Virtual Assets and Digital Innovation agenda within a leading financial institution. This role will focus on identifying, evaluating, and delivering opportunities across tokenization, blockchain-enabled financial services, digital money, and emerging payment technologies.

The successful candidate will play a key role in exploring new market opportunities, assessing regulatory developments, leading proof-of-concepts and pilot initiatives, and helping shape the long-term adoption of virtual asset solutions within the organization.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of financial innovation, collaborating with internal stakeholders, technology partners, fintech organizations, and regulators to drive the next generation of digital financial services.

Virtual Assets Lead

We are seeking an experienced professional to lead the development and execution of a Virtual Assets and Digital Innovation agenda within a leading financial institution. This role will focus on identifying, evaluating, and delivering opportunities across tokenization, blockchain-enabled financial services, digital money, and emerging payment technologies.

The successful candidate will play a key role in exploring new market opportunities, assessing regulatory developments, leading proof-of-concepts and pilot initiatives, and helping shape the long-term adoption of virtual asset solutions within the organization.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of financial innovation, collaborating with internal stakeholders, technology partners, fintech organizations, and regulators to drive the next generation of digital financial services.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the organization's roadmap for virtual assets and blockchain-related initiatives.
• Identify opportunities across tokenized assets, tokenized deposits, digital payments, and distributed ledger technologies.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of innovation initiatives, from concept development and feasibility analysis through pilot execution and scaling recommendations.
• Partner with external technology providers, fintech firms, industry participants, and strategic partners to evaluate and implement new solutions.
• Engage with regulatory stakeholders and ensure initiatives align with relevant compliance and governance requirements.
• Coordinate internal approval processes, risk reviews, and governance activities for new use cases and pilot programs.
• Work closely with teams across Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Payments, Treasury, Operations, and Business functions.
• Translate complex blockchain and digital asset concepts into practical use cases that deliver business value.
• Assess impacts on payment flows, settlement processes, wallet infrastructure, liquidity management, reconciliation, and operational controls.
• Build business cases and evaluate opportunities from strategic, financial, operational, and risk perspectives.
• Monitor developments within digital assets, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenization, and emerging payment ecosystems.
• Represent the virtual assets function in senior stakeholder discussions and industry engagements.
• Maintain clear documentation covering assessments, pilot outcomes, governance decisions, and implementation recommendations.
• Support internal awareness and capability building related to digital assets and blockchain technologies.

Requirements

• Approximately 7+ years of experience across banking, financial services, fintech, payments, blockchain, digital assets, or emerging technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex technology or innovation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of banking infrastructure, payments, settlement models, and regulatory environments.
• Hands-on exposure to digital assets, tokenization, blockchain technologies, CBDCs, digital wallets, or related ecosystems.
• Ability to engage with architecture, technology, and engineering teams while effectively communicating with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and project leadership capabilities.
• Experience working with regulated financial institutions is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of smart contracts, distributed ledger technology, tokenized assets, and cross-border payment solutions is advantageous.