Description
We are seeking a Vice President to join our Digital Assets Strategy team at Barclays. The successful candidate will help advance a global digital asset strategy across Barclays' wholesale and consumer businesses.
The role involves:
- Identifying digital asset opportunities, challenging assumptions, and recommending where Barclays should compete, invest, and partner
- Assessing client demand, sizing opportunities, and building quantified business cases
- Turning recommendations into delivery roadmaps with clear owners, milestones, and success measures
- Partnering with businesses and coverage teams to validate client needs and shape commercially viable digital asset propositions
- Translating market, competitor, technology, and regulatory developments into strategic recommendations
- Strengthening Group-wide alignment across digital asset strategy, commercialization, technology, and control functions
The ideal candidate will have:
- Domain expertise in digital assets and financial services, with an understanding of market developments, relevant use cases, business models, and practical constraints
- An entrepreneurial mindset, able to operate confidently without a playbook
- Execution focus, combining strategic thinking with practical delivery
- Learning agility, able to get up to speed quickly and respond to market developments
- A background in corporate strategy, management consulting, banking, or a relevant digital assets or FinTech role
- Analytical and financial rigor, able to size markets and build business cases
- Clear communication, able to understand complex topics and explain them simply
- Executive presence and influence, able to communicate with clarity and conviction
As a Vice President at Barclays, you will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.