Principal, TradFi Settlement & Digital Assets

galaxydigitalservices; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Galaxy Digital Inc. is seeking a TradFi/Settlement Principal Lead to bridge traditional financial infrastructure with digital asset ecosystems.

This client-facing role requires deep expertise in settlement, custody, post-trade flows, and tokenization, with a track record shipping complex financial infrastructure. You will partner with DIS leads to shape product vision for custom builds, translate complex requirements into actionable specs, and guide engineering through delivery while aligning

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on TradFi experience with settlement systems, post-trade flows, and the full institutional trade lifecycle.
• Equally deep hands-on experience with digital asset or blockchain infrastructure, including tokenization and on-chain settlement.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Lead who has shipped complex, regulated financial infrastructure.
• Comfort operating as a specialist rather than a generalist and ability to challenge ideas.

Responsibilities

• Partner with DIS leads on the product vision and strategy for custom build engagements, owning prioritization and direction as the work moves from concept to delivery
• Serve as the team's specialist on settlement, clearing, and post-trade flows across both TradFi and digital assets - bring deep knowledge of the institutional trade lifecycle and on-chain translation
• Translate institutional and regulatory requirements into clear, buildable specs and acceptance criteria for engineering
• Run discovery and requirements sessions directly with client stakeholders, from engineers to senior operations and technology leaders
• Challenge ideas and assumptions - both client and team - to ensure requirements reflect how TradFi infrastructure operates today and what needs to change for digital assets
• Partner with the Architect and engineering leads to ensure product decisions hold up technically
• Serve as the voice of the client internally and the voice of the roadmap externally, keeping delivery and client expectations aligned
• Embrace and champion thoughtful adoption of AI tools to improve team performance and output quality

Skills

TradFi experience

Digital asset experience

Product Owner

Client-facing

Job description

Who We Are:

Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, growing the economy that runs on code. Galaxy delivers the onchain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization. Galaxy also develops and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Anchored by its Helios campus in Texas, Galaxy is building a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity, positioning it among the largest and fastest-growing data center developers in North America.

The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Additional information about Galaxy's businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com .

What We Value:

• We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.
• Seek Excellence.
• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
• Build Dream Teams.

Who You Are:

The TradFi/Settlement Principal Lead is the specialist voice on how traditional financial infrastructure actually works, and what it takes to rebuild it for digital assets. This is a deep-domain role, not a generalist PM function: you need hands-on experience on both sides - settlement, custody, and post-trade flows inside a TradFi institution, and the equivalent flows inside a digital asset or blockchain environment (tokenization, on-chain settlement, digital custody). You understand the full institutional trade lifecycle end to end, and how it maps - and doesn't map - onto digital asset rails.

You will partner directly with DIS leads on the vision and strategy for our custom build engagements, co-own product direction for those builds, and translate complex institutional requirements into specs that engineering can execute against without guesswork. You are comfortable challenging assumptions - client-side and internal - and pushing back when a requirement doesn't hold up against how the lifecycle actually operates, on either side of the TradFi/digital asset divide.

This is a client-facing role. You will run discovery directly with Tier-1 institutional stakeholders, from operations and engineering teams to senior executives, and you will be the person in the room who can tell the difference between a real settlement constraint and an assumed one - in both the TradFi world and the digital asset world.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with DIS leads on the product vision and strategy for custom build engagements, owning prioritization and direction as the work moves from concept to delivery
• Serve as the team's specialist on settlement, clearing, and post-trade flows across both TradFi and digital assets - bring deep, current knowledge of the institutional trade lifecycle (custody, settlement cycles, corporate actions, reconciliation) and how it translates on-chain, into every requirement
• Translate institutional and regulatory requirements into clear, buildable specs and acceptance criteria that engineering can execute against with minimal rework
• Run discovery and requirements sessions directly with client stakeholders, from engineers to senior operations and technology leaders, and define success in their terms
• Challenge ideas and assumptions - both the client's and the team's - pressure-testing every requirement against how TradFi infrastructure actually behaves today and where it needs to change for digital assets
• Partner closely with the Architect and engineering leads to make sure product decisions hold up technically, and stay in the details when it matters
• Serve as the voice of the client internally and the voice of the roadmap externally, keeping delivery and client expectations aligned as requirements evolve
• Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI tools to improve team performance, decision-making, and output quality

What We're Looking For:

• Deep, hands-on TradFi experience with settlement systems, post-trade flows, and the full institutional trade lifecycle - custody, clearing, settlement, reconciliation
• Equally deep, hands-on experience with digital asset or blockchain infrastructure - tokenization, on-chain settlement, digital custody. This role requires genuine fluency in both worlds; a TradFi background alone, or a digital-assets background alone, is not sufficient
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Lead who has shipped complex, regulated financial infrastructure, not just consumer or generic B2B products
• Comfort operating as a specialist rather than a generalist - re