Digital Assets Lead

About the Role

Huxley is seeking an experienced professional for the role of Virtual Assets Lead. This contract position, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focuses on leading the development and execution of a virtual assets and digital innovation agenda within a leading financial institution. The role involves identifying, evaluating, and delivering opportunities across tokenization, blockchain-enabled financial services, digital money, and emerging payment technologies.

Role Context and Impact

The Virtual Assets Lead will play a key role in exploring new market opportunities, assessing regulatory developments, and leading proof-of-concepts and pilot initiatives. This position contributes to shaping the long-term adoption of virtual asset solutions within the organization. The role requires collaboration with internal stakeholders, technology partners, fintech organizations, and regulators to drive the next generation of digital financial services.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the organization's roadmap for virtual assets and blockchain-related initiatives.
• Identify opportunities across tokenized assets, tokenized deposits, digital payments, and distributed ledger technologies.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of innovation initiatives, from concept development and feasibility analysis through pilot execution and scaling recommendations.
• Partner with external technology providers, fintech firms, industry participants, and strategic partners to evaluate and implement new solutions.
• Engage with regulatory stakeholders and ensure initiatives align with relevant compliance and governance requirements.
• Coordinate internal approval processes, risk reviews, and governance activities for new use cases and pilot programs.
• Work closely with teams across Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Payments, Treasury, Operations, and Business functions.
• Translate complex blockchain and digital asset concepts into practical use cases that deliver business value.
• Assess impacts on payment flows, settlement processes, wallet infrastructure, liquidity management, reconciliation, and operational controls.
• Build business cases and evaluate opportunities from strategic, financial, operational, and risk perspectives.
• Monitor developments within digital assets, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenization, and emerging payment ecosystems.
• Represent the virtual assets function in senior stakeholder discussions and industry engagements.
• Maintain clear documentation covering assessments, pilot outcomes, governance decisions, and implementation recommendations.
• Support internal awareness and capability building related to digital assets and blockchain technologies.

Qualifications and Experience

• Approximately 7+ years of experience across banking, financial services, fintech, payments, blockchain, digital assets, or emerging technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex technology or innovation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of banking infrastructure, payments, settlement models, and regulatory environments.
• Hands-on exposure to digital assets, tokenization, blockchain technologies, CBDCs, digital wallets, or related ecosystems.
• Ability to engage with architecture, technology, and engineering teams while effectively communicating with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and project leadership capabilities.
• Experience working with regulated financial institutions is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of smart contracts, distributed ledger technology, tokenized assets, and cross-border payment solutions is advantageous.