Director, Digital Asset Custody & Strategy

Charles Schwab; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation and volunteering time; 4

Sabbatical after 5 years

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Schwab is building digital-asset custody capabilities to safeguard assets across their lifecycle. The Director will define strategy, translate needs into clear requirements, and lead cross-functional teams spanning technology, operations, legal, and risk to deliver secure client outcomes.

The role emphasizes collaboration, regulatory awareness, and continuous delivery of custody services in a complex financial-technology environment, with on-site work in Alpharetta, GA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, platform product management, custody, brokerage, banking, payments, or financial-services tech.
• Experience owning complex digital-asset custody or cryptography platform capabilities across strategy, requirements, delivery, launch, monitoring, and controls.
• Knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain concepts, including wallets, addresses, private keys, transaction signing, networks, tokens, and smart contracts.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and key management, including private-key protection, HSMs, access controls, segregation of duties, and secure key recovery.
• Experience translating technology, operational, risk, and regulatory needs into product roadmaps, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving technology, operations, legal, compliance, risk, cybersecurity, finance, and third-party providers.
• Demonstrated problem solving, stakeholder management, written communication, sound judgment, and attention to detail in an evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Translate client, business, technology, operational, regulatory, and risk needs into clear product requirements and delivery priorities.
• Guide decisions on wallet infrastructure, transaction authorization, blockchain connectivity, asset servicing, reconciliation, controls, and operational resiliency.
• Collaborate across product, technology, operations, legal, compliance, risk, finance, and external providers to deliver secure, reliable client outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Written communication

Cross-functional leadership

Adaptability

Job description

Schwab is building digital-asset custody capabilities to safeguard assets across their lifecycle. The Director will define strategy, translate needs into clear requirements, and lead cross-functional teams spanning technology, operations, legal, and risk to deliver secure client outcomes.

The role emphasizes collaboration, regulatory awareness, and continuous delivery of custody services in a complex financial-technology environment, with on-site work in Alpharetta, GA.