Hiring: Head of Enterprise Digital Assets & Tokenization Company: S&P Global Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:17:00 Target Skills & Keywords : Blockchain, Capital Markets, DeFi, Rails, Smart Contracts About the job Experience: •10+ years of experience in capital markets, asset management, financial data and infrastructure, or digital assets, including senior roles with enterprise-wide or firm-building scope. Required Skills: •The Head of Enterprise Digital Assets & Tokenization leads S&P Global's central Digital Assets & Tokenization team, reporting to S&P DJI's Head of Business Acceleration & Special Projects, who oversees the team on behalf of S&P Global's Head of DeFi (Chief Product & Operations Officer, S&P DJI). •Enterprise Strategy, Prioritization & Capital Allocation •Own the enterprise digital assets and tokenization strategy day-to-day, translating it into a prioritized, funded and sequenced portfolio of initiatives across divisions. •Run a single intake for divisional requests and enterprise-originated opportunities; apply and continuously sharpen the "Start Now" screening criteria and stage gates covering division readiness, resourcing, partner commitment and regulatory sensitivity. •Co-own and sponsor business cases that secure investment at both enterprise and divisional level; make explicit recommendations on what to start, what to hold and what to stop. •Maintain a defensible, evidence-based view of market direction – tokenization economics, onchain market structure, and the AI × blockchain intersection – and use it to keep the firm's portfolio ahead of, not behind, client demand. •Drive priority initiatives to in-production status with paying customers, augmenting divisional teams that lack capacity, depth or delivery muscle. •Appoint and hold a single accountable owner for each enterprise or divisional opportunity; empower them to execute and remove the obstacles they cannot clear themselves. Qualifications: •Demonstrated hands-on experience in digital assets: tokenized products, digital asset funds or indices, onchain infrastructure, or the operational and control build-out required to bring them to market. Operator experience is valued well above observer experience. •Demonstrated success in standing up new businesses, products or functions from zero to production, including vendor, counterparty and partner selection, launch, and the operating processes that sustain them. •An established external network across onchain-native firms and traditional financial institutions, and the credibility to open and hold senior relationships from a standing start. •Commercial judgment: experience building business cases, structuring partnerships and commercial terms, and making disciplined calls on where to invest and where to walk away. •Demonstrated success aligning competing priorities and stakeholder interests across independent business units, and delivering through influence rather than direct authority. •Executive-level communication: able to brief senior leadership and external principals with equal clarity, and to challenge as well as partner. •Comfort operating within regulatory, legal and compliance constraints, and partnering with control functions to move quickly without creating exposure. •Sufficient technical fluency in blockchain architecture, smart contracts and onchain data to engage engineering teams and partners substantively; a hands-on engineering background is not required. •Exposure to board, investment committee or council-level governance. •(This section is only applicable to US candidates) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!