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Digital Assets Lead

Requisition Number: 48416
Job Location: Dubai, ARE
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 03/02/2026
Posting End Date: 06/03/2026
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Job Summary
About SC Ventures
SC Ventures is Standard Chartered's innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.
We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.
We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.
We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Define and continuously refine the fund's overall investment strategy, asset allocation, and risk framework across digital asset markets
• Oversee portfolio construction across:

o Liquid tokens (spot and derivatives)
o Market-neutral and yield strategies
o Structured products and options
o Select private/venture digital asset investments (where applicable)

• Ensure disciplined position sizing, liquidity management, and drawdown control
• Opine on all major investment decisions in line with Board-approved mandates
• Maintain deep, real-time understanding of:

o Digital asset market structure and liquidity dynamics
o Macro and cross-asset correlations
o Protocol, ecosystem, and infrastructure developments

• Oversee internal and external research efforts to support conviction-based investing
• Evaluate new strategies, products, and market opportunities before deployment

Business

• Act as the primary investment spokesperson to the Board and key stakeholders
• Prepare and present:

o Portfolio performance and attribution reports
o Risk and stress-testing analysis
o Forward-looking strategy updates

• Support investor due diligence and fundraising discussions as required

Risk Management

• Ensure direct reports adhere to Policies and Procedures related to Technology & Innovation
• Act and escalate quickly when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees
• Work with SCV colleagues to deliver expected business performance results within cost constraints and applicable risk/ control framework to ensure that the Group's ability to remain within risk appetite is not materially threatened.

Governance

• Responsible for effective governance of SCV activities in the region, ensuring appropriate governance structures and measures are in place.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct
• Lead the SC Ventures digital assets portfolio team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Support with MAS for licenses for relevant businesses

Key stakeholders

• Head of Funds & Investments
• Digital Assets Team in Standard Chartered
• Venture Leads
• SCV Functional Leads
• Fundraising, Investments & M&A Team

Skills and Experience

• General Management - Business Acumen
• General Management - Business Development
• General Management - Organisational Governance
• General Management - Competitive Environment
• General Management - Shareholder Relations

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of investment, fundraising, M&A or related experience (VC/PE, investment banking, private equity, consulting, due diligence)
• Understanding and familiarity of B2B blockchain applications, blockchain financial markets infrastructure, blockchain protocols, regulation and risk management relating to digital assets, tokens and smart contract models and economics, tokenisation, Web 3.0 and Defi
• Roll up sleeves attitude as this will be a lean team operating the Digital Assets Fund
• Outstanding analytical skills, detail-oriented, proactive and self-motivated
• Ability to help develop more junior members of the team
• Strong knowledge of Excel including advanced function
• Experience with cash flow modelling and investment valuation techniques
• Ability to produce well designed professional looking Power-point presentations
• Strong written, analytical and verbal communication skills

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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