Vice President, Digital Assets: Tokenization

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Introduction

Goldman Sachs is seeking a highly motivated and entrepreneurial Vice President to join its Digital Assets team in London. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead, innovate, and drive significant commercial impact in the execution of the firm's global Digital Assets strategy, operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge blockchain technology.

The Digital Assets team, part of Global Banking and Markets – Public division, holds a firmwide and cross-divisional mandate. The core focus is to define and execute Goldman Sachs’ Digital Assets strategy across the firm, encompassing both tokenization initiatives and cryptocurrency efforts. This is an entrepreneurial, dynamic, and fast-paced environment where creative problem-solving is highly valued.

Responsibilities

As a Digital Assets Vice President, you will hold a leadership role within our London team, driving innovation and delivering tangible commercial outcomes across the firm’s digital asset strategy. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Strategic Advice & Thought Leadership: Provide strategic advice and thought leadership to internal stakeholders and clients, actively shaping Goldman Sachs’ digital assets product offerings and strategic direction.
• Commercial Tokenization Initiatives: Leverage understanding of financial products and market structure to identify and execute new commercially viable tokenization initiatives.
• Product Development Lifecycle: Drive the end-to-end product development lifecycle and oversee the execution of various tokenization initiatives across public and private markets. This includes ensuring commercial viability, market adoption, and delivering measurable business impact.
• Digital Money Solutions: Enhance collateral mobility and develop digital money solutions, by applying deep expertise in financial products and market structure.
• Industry Engagement: Act as a senior point of contact and thought leader, engaging daily with industry experts and stakeholders, both internal and external, who are exploring tokenization or cryptocurrencies, shaping market dialogue and identifying strategic partnerships.

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in financial services, ideally gained from a leading investment bank, consulting firm, corporate, or asset manager, with a demonstrable track record of commercial success and delivering business impact.
• Financial Product & Market Structure Expertise: Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of various financial products (e.g., fixed income, equities, derivatives) and a comprehensive understanding of market structure, including trading, clearing, settlement, and regulatory frameworks.
• Digital Assets Expertise: In-depth knowledge and demonstrated strong interest in digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, with practical experience in relevant projects or initiatives.
• Intellectual Curiosity: High intellectual curiosity and an entrepreneurial mindset, with a passion for thinking outside the box and driving innovation.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional senior-level interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal), with a proven ability to present complex information clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to diverse audiences, including senior management and clients, to influence decision-making, secure commercial opportunities, and build strong relationships.
• Attention to Detail: A high level of accuracy and meticulous attention to detail is essential for managing complex projects and transactions.
• Problem Solving: Strong creative thinking and strategic problem-solving abilities, with a proven capacity to navigate ambiguous situations, deliver effective solutions, and drive tangible business value.
• Teamwork & Leadership: A motivated team player with proven leadership and mentorship capabilities, with a track record of fostering high-performing teams, driving collective success, and taking ownership of key initiatives.
• Language: Fluent in English.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in additional continental languages.

Benefits

• Lead and shape the future of digital asset innovation within a leading global financial institution.
• Develop a comprehensive and advanced understanding of blockchain technology, tokenization, cryptocurrency markets, financial products, and market structure.
• Work alongside and influence industry experts, leading high-impact, firmwide strategic initiatives with direct commercial implications and significant visibility.
• Build a strong network across various divisions of Goldman Sachs and with external industry leaders.
• Accelerate your career growth in a rapidly evolving and strategically important area of finance, taking on significant responsibility, ownership, and directly impacting the firm's bottom line and market position.

About Company

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital, and ideas to help our clients, shareholders, and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please visit the Goldman Sachs careers website or the original job posting. More details about our culture, benefits, and people can be found at GS.com/careers.

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion.