Digital Assets Regulatory Management Manager

About This Role

Lead client engagements and manage teams as the primary client contact for digital asset risk and compliance matters. Interpret and operationalize complex regulatory requirements, manage risk frameworks, and implement forward-looking solutions in the evolving world of digital assets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and direct end-to-end client projects focused on digital asset risk, regulatory compliance, and licensing, owning project scoping, resource allocation, timelines, quality, and deliverables.
• Build and maintain trusted client relationships as the main engagement leader, serving as the day-to-day advisor on regulatory, risk, and licensing topics for digital asset initiatives.
• Lead teams in assessing traditional and digital asset process flows, risk frameworks, and control environments, ensuring robust management of lifecycle events across banking and capital markets.
• Guide clients through the U.S. regulatory landscape, including navigating federal and state digital asset licensing requirements.
• Design, review, and optimize risk management strategies and internal controls in line with evolving regulatory demands and market leading practices.
• Provide strategic vision for how innovation in banking and capital markets impacts risk and compliance, helping clients develop future-ready operating models.
• Translate complex regulatory, risk, and licensing matters into actionable roadmaps, policy documents, and technical analyses.
• Monitor emerging market and regulatory trends, delivering insights that shape client strategy, compliance posture, and innovation.
• Lead client communications, executive updates, workshops, and consensus-building activities with diverse stakeholders.
• Foster team development, providing career guidance, managing performance, mentoring, and contributing to Deloitte's talent strategy.
• Play a key role in business development: identifying new opportunities, contributing to proposal writing, and supporting growth of our Digital Assets risk and regulatory practice.

Requirements

• Deep regulatory and risk subject matter expertise
• Demonstrated expertise in banking and capital markets infrastructures, traditional and digital asset lifecycle events, and risk frameworks.
• Deep understanding of the U.S. regulatory environment (including key federal and state statutes such as the GENIUS Act)
• Proven experience managing digital asset licensing or registration efforts.
• Experience leading client teams in designing and implementing risk frameworks, compliance programs, and controls for digital asset activities.
• Proven ability to communicate complex regulatory and risk concepts clearly to all audiences-preparing compelling technical, policy, and executive-level deliverables.
• Experience managing multiple projects or large workstreams simultaneously and to high standards of quality and timeliness.
• Strong client relationship and stakeholder management skills, including experience handling client expectations and facilitating executive communications.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and leadership abilities; able to coach, mentor, and formally manage team members.
• Ability to travel up to 75%.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., Finance, Business, Law, Public Policy, or related discipline)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in financial services, consulting, or a closely related field, with significant experience in risk, regulatory, or compliance aspects of digital and/or traditional banking and capital markets.

Nice to Have

• Leading cross-functional teams in the execution of risk and regulatory engagements for digital asset or banking and capital markets clients.
• Managing digital asset licensing application processes at the state and/or federal level, and direct interaction with regulatory agencies and legal/compliance counsel.
• Conducting risk assessments, internal audits, or regulatory examinations in a digital asset context.
• Implementing regulatory technology solutions, blockchain analytics, and data-driven approaches to risk and compliance.
• Advanced degree or certification(s) relevant to risk, compliance, regulatory affairs, or related fields (e.g., CRCM, CAMS, CISA, JD, or LLM).
• Published thought leadership or active participation in industry groups on digital asset regulation, risk management, or compliance.
• Experience mentoring, training, and developing professionals in digital asset risk and regulatory practices.
• Significant project/program management experience with a strong work ethic and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to support or lead business proposal development and sales presentations
• Strong relationship management skills, particularly the ability to build constructive and product working relationships with clients and among Deloitte practitioners
• Strong project / program management skills, particularly possessing a strong work ethic, a commitment to excellence in work product delivery, and the ability to independently manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Advanced aptitude with Microsoft Office products, particularly Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio
• Experience leveraging generative AI platforms for regulatory intelligence, risk monitoring, policy analysis, or process automation in compliance and risk management functions.

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