DA Ecosystem Lead

Standard Chartered Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support through Unmind

Continuous learning & development

Job summary

SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, the venture building and investment arm of Standard Chartered, is accelerating its Digital Assets strategy. You will drive ecosystem connectivity, strategic execution, and commercial scale across the portfolio in partnership with CIB and internal stakeholders.

Headquartered in Singapore, the role involves working across Asia and US markets, coordinating with multiple teams to unlock opportunities in custody, tokenisation, and related workflows while delivering

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Digital Assets, tokenisation, institutional crypto markets, or fintech ecosystems.
• Experience in strategy, partnerships, venture building, product commercialisation, or institutional markets.
• Ability to operate across matrixed organisations and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong executive communication and analytical skills.
• Experience working across Asia and US markets preferred.

Responsibilities

• Represent and articulate SC Ventures’ Digital Assets ecosystem, ventures, and capabilities to priority stakeholders and clients.
• Support execution of growth priorities across the Digital Assets portfolio, delivering commercial growth ecosystem-led opportunities across international activities.
• Identify and coordinate cross-venture opportunities spanning custody, trading, tokenisation, payments, lending, and related workflows.
• Partner with SCB and internal teams to align Digital Assets opportunities with client needs and strategic priorities.
• Support development of structured partnerships for capital, distribution, and ecosystem scale.
• Contribute to onboarding, operating model, and client journey improvements across ventures.
• Provide market insights on client demand, competitor activity, and emerging trends in Digital Assets.
• Prepare strategic materials, leadership updates, and business cases to support decision-making.

Skills

Strategic Analysis

Strategic Communications

Sustainability Reporting

Job description

• SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, the venture building and investment arm of Standard Chartered, builds and invests in breakthrough ventures in and beyond banking. The platform brings together corporates, investors, and entrepreneurs to co-create and invest in ventures that reimagine the future of financial services.
• Today, SC Ventures has more than 30 ventures in the pipeline and holds stakes in 20+ portfolio companies, globally.
• We believe banking plays a critical role in society. Our model reconnects banking with real-world needs by building and scaling institution-grade businesses. Our edge lies in combining venture agility with strength of a global bank – access to markets, clients and capital – while focusing on high-conviction ecosystems, including Digital Banking, Trade & Supply Chains, Digital Assets. Frontier technologies, like AI and blockchain, play crucial roles in building and driving our portfolio ecosystems.
• Headquartered in Singapore, SC Ventures operates globally across UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Kenya.
• Help accelerate SC Ventures’ Digital Assets strategy by driving ecosystem connectivity, strategic execution, and commercial scale across the portfolio in partnership with CIB and relevant internal stakeholders.

• SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, the venture building and investment arm of Standard Chartered, builds and invests in breakthrough ventures in and beyond banking. The platform brings together corporates, investors, and entrepreneurs to co-create and invest in ventures that reimagine the future of financial services.
• Today, SC Ventures has more than 30 ventures in the pipeline and holds stakes in 20+ portfolio companies, globally.
• We believe banking plays a critical role in society. Our model reconnects banking with real-world needs by building and scaling institution-grade businesses. Our edge lies in combining venture agility with strength of a global bank – access to markets, clients and capital – while focusing on high-conviction ecosystems, including Digital Banking, Trade & Supply Chains, Digital Assets. Frontier technologies, like AI and blockchain, play crucial roles in building and driving our portfolio ecosystems.
• Headquartered in Singapore, SC Ventures operates globally across UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Kenya.
• Help accelerate SC Ventures’ Digital Assets strategy by driving ecosystem connectivity, strategic execution, and commercial scale across the portfolio in partnership with CIB and relevant internal stakeholders.

Job Summary

• SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, the venture building and investment arm of Standard Chartered, builds and invests in breakthrough ventures in and beyond banking. The platform brings together corporates, investors, and entrepreneurs to co-create and invest in ventures that reimagine the future of financial services.
• Today, SC Ventures has more than 30 ventures in the pipeline and holds stakes in 20+ portfolio companies, globally.
• We believe banking plays a critical role in society. Our model reconnects banking with real-world needs by building and scaling institution-grade businesses. Our edge lies in combining venture agility with strength of a global bank – access to markets, clients and capital – while focusing on high-conviction ecosystems, including Digital Banking, Trade & Supply Chains, Digital Assets. Frontier technologies, like AI and blockchain, play crucial roles in building and driving our portfolio ecosystems.
• Headquartered in Singapore, SC Ventures operates globally across UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Kenya.

Strategy

• Help accelerate SC Ventures’ Digital Assets strategy by driving ecosystem connectivity, strategic execution, and commercial scale across the portfolio in partnership with CIB and relevant internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Represent and articulate SC Ventures’ Digital Assets ecosystem, ventures, and capabilities to priority stakeholders and clients.
• Support execution of growth priorities across the Digital Assets portfolio, delivering commercial growth ecosystem-led opportunities across our international digital assets activities.
• Identify and coordinate cross-venture opportunities spanning custody, trading, tokenisation, payments, lending, and related workflows.
• Partner with SCB and internal teams to align Digital Assets opportunities with client needs and strategic priorities.
• Support development of structured partnerships for capital, distribution, and ecosystem scale.
• Contribute to onboarding, operating model, and client journey improvements across ventures.
• Provide market insights on client demand, competitor activity, and emerging trends in Digital Assets.
• Prepare strategic materials, leadership updates, and business cases to support decision-making.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the business and SC Ventures;
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills And Experience

• Strategic Analysis
• Strategic Communications
• Sustainability Reporting

Our Ideal Candidate

• Strong knowledge of Digital Assets, tokenisation, institutional crypto markets, or fintech ecosystems.
• Experience in strategy, partnerships, venture building, product commercialisation, or institutional markets.
• Ability to operate across matrixed organisations and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong executive communication and analytical skills.
• Experience working across Asia and US markets preferred.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.