Digital Assets Strategy VP

Barclays Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in New York is seeking a Digital Assets Strategy VP to shape the future of digital assets across wholesale and consumer businesses. You will challenge established thinking, translate strategic decisions into execution, and collaborate with senior leaders to deliver measurable business value.

This high-visibility role requires strong analytical capabilities, stakeholder management, and the ability to steward multi-year initiatives across geographies.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior stakeholders to solve complex business problems and inform key decisions.
• Shape enterprise-wide strategy across business units, balancing short- and long-term priorities.
• Structure ambiguous problems and deliver analytical insight, including financial modelling and market analysis.
• Monitor market trends and competitor activity to identify risks and opportunities.
• Communicate clearly and influence stakeholders through structured, compelling messaging.
• Contribute to team development and coaching junior colleagues where appropriate.
• Join Barclays as a Digital Assets Strategy VP, where you will help shape the future of money, assets, and global financial markets. You will work with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to challenge established thinking, build consensus, and translate strategic decisions into execution.

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role

Develop and challenge Group and business unit strategies, delivering measurable impact through high‑priority strategic projects with exposure to senior management across Barclays.

Accountabilities

Partner with senior stakeholders to solve complex business problems and inform key decisions.

Shape enterprise‑wide strategy across business units, balancing short‑and long‑term priorities.

Structure ambiguous problems and deliver analytical insight, including financial modelling and market analysis.

Monitor market trends and competitor activity to identify risks and opportunities.

Communicate clearly and influence stakeholders through structured, compelling messaging.

Contribute to team development and continuous improvement, including coaching junior colleagues where appropriate.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..

If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others..

OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.

Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.

Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.

Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.

Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.

Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.

Join Barclays as a Digital Assets Strategy VP, where you will help shape the future of money, assets, and global financial markets. The Digital Assets Strategy team is responsible for shaping Barclays' enterprise‑wide approach to digital assets and coordinating priorities across businesses, technology, and control functions. As part of the Digital Assets Strategy team, you will help advance a global digital asset strategy across Barclays' wholesale and consumer businesses, turning market insights and commercial opportunities into strategic recommendations backed by quantifiable business cases. You will work with senior leaders and cross‑functional teams to challenge established thinking, build consensus, and translate strategic decisions into execution. This is an opportunity to influence what Barclays builds, funds and brings to clients across businesses and geographies.

Requirements

To be successful as a Digital Assets Strategy VP, you should have: