Hiring: VP, Forward Deployed Lead Company: Galaxy Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:44:19 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Blockchain, LLM, R, Rails About the job Experience: •6+ years across forward-deployed/solutions engineering, technical PM, and client-facing delivery; shape of ownership matters more than years Qualifications: •Own product and technical direction: translate institutional needs — custody, settlement, tokenization, trading, and regulatory context — into a buildable roadmap; set the technical bar, make hard design calls, and stay in the code when it matters •Drive commercial and account growth: run your account like a business, identify expansion opportunities, advise senior client stakeholders (CTO, COO, Head of Digital Assets), and convert delivered trust into the next engagement •Lead client and executive relationships: run discovery from engineers to the C-suite, define success in their terms (adoption, risk, cost, time-to-value), and navigate complex regulated organizations to alignment •Rotate into R&D and Innovation: lead 0-to-1 product creation on frontier blockchain and AI, and codify learnings into reusable components and playbooks that feed back into client delivery •Serve as the voice of the customer back into Galaxy’s product organization, translating delivered insights into what the firm builds next •Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes. •Leverage AI tools (e.g., generative AI, automation platforms, data copilots) to improve productivity, decision-making, and output quality in your day-to-day work. •Real technical depth — you’ve shipped production software and can lead engineers credibly •Commercial instinct — you’ve turned delivered work into expanded scope or revenue •Executive presence — fluent from a whiteboard to a C-suite briefing Compensation: •$215,000 - $285,000 / year •Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus 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!