VP, Digital Assets Platform for Wealth Management

711 MS Smith Barney, LLC; Town/Village of Harrison (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management seeks a Vice President to define, execute, and scale digital assets platforms. You will partner with Technology, Risk, Legal/Compliance, and Operations to translate strategy into institutional-grade capabilities within a highly regulated environment.

The role emphasizes product leadership, roadmapping, and governance across corporate clients and advisors, with a strong emphasis on risk-aware innovation and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of relevant experience in product strategy, product execution, business strategy, platform strategy, consulting, fintech, or related roles within financial services.
• Strong traditional finance foundation across wealth management, broker-dealer platforms, advisory, custody, asset management, banking, or regulated financial services platforms.
• Applied digital asset experience through product, strategy, consulting, operating model, infrastructure, regulatory, or platform initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to execute complex cross-functional initiatives in regulated or highly controlled environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-ready memos, product narratives, structured analysis, and decision materials.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to break ambiguity into clear issues, options, trade-offs, and execution paths.
• High attention to detail, strong organizational discipline, and ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Product strategy and roadmap support: support the Digital Assets Product Lead in developing and refining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for digital asset capabilities within Wealth Management.
• Digital assets product and market analysis: develop decision-ready analysis across digital asset topics, including crypto access, tokenization, stablecoins, custody and settlement models, market structure, wallets, and ecosystem participation.
• Product development and execution: own discrete workstreams from discovery through launch readiness, including scope definition, requirements, stakeholder alignment, dependency tracking, testing support, issue resolution, post-launch optimization.
• Metrics, governance, and stakeholder materials: define and track success metrics, including adoption, utilization, revenue or AUM contribution, client and advisor impact.

Skills

Product strategy

Product execution

Business strategy

Platform strategy

Consulting

Fintech

Regulated financial services

Executive communication

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management seeks a Vice President to define, execute, and scale digital assets platforms. You will partner with Technology, Risk, Legal/Compliance, and Operations to translate strategy into institutional-grade capabilities within a highly regulated environment.

The role emphasizes product leadership, roadmapping, and governance across corporate clients and advisors, with a strong emphasis on risk-aware innovation and cross-functional collaboration.