Digital Assets Strategy Lead

About the role

We're the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value - across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we're proud to support the global economy. We're unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value - a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We're always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions. This role plays a central part in shaping the strategy for Swift's digital assets initiatives, including the Swift Ledger. The Strategy Lead will help define what problems we are solving, why they matter to banks, and how Swift's digital-asset capabilities should evolve over time , grounding strategic thinking in real-world banking economics and cross-border payment dynamics. The role combines structured strategic analysis, strong industry understanding, and close collaboration with product, technology, and engagement teams to turn emerging concepts into credible, bank-relevant strategy and design inputs. About the Digital Assets Business Unit The Digital Assets Business Unit is leading the design and development of the Swift Ledger and overseeing all Swift's digital-asset initiatives. The core mission is to secure coalition alignment, deliver a live MVP by 2026, achieve adoption and buy-in across the ecosystem, and define the roadmap, operating model, and five-year plan to scale Swift's digital-asset capabilities as the foundation of a 24/7, multi-asset, cross-border network. This role will work closely with senior leadership and product teams to support strategic definition across the Swift Ledger and broader digital-asset initiatives. The Strategy Lead sits at the intersection of cross-border payments, liquidity and treasury considerations, and emerging digital-asset infrastructure. The focus is on developing clear strategic perspectives, use-case prioritization, and value propositions that reflect how banks assess liquidity, risk, operational change, and return on investment. This is a hands-on role with exposure to senior stakeholders. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy on analysis and framing, while partnering with more senior leaders for direction-setting and final decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain structured strategic perspectives on Swift's digital asset initiatives, including the Swift Ledger and related initiatives.
• Support definition of use case prioritization, strategic roadmap definition, and sequencing beyond initial MVP delivery.
• Articulate bank-centric value propositions grounded in liquidity efficiency, funding considerations, operational risk reduction, and balance sheet impacts.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate strategy into concrete design inputs, trade-offs, and prioritization choices.
• Prepare executive-ready materials, including strategy briefs, decision papers, and investment cases.
• Analyze market and industry developments across digital assets, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and settlement models, and assess implications for Swift's positioning
• Pressure-test ideas and narratives from the perspective of different bank profiles (global banks, correspondents, regionals, FMIs).
• Help ensure consistency between near-term MVP delivery and longer-term strategic ambition.
• Competencies
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical discipline: able to frame complex, ambiguous problems and develop clear, defensible points of view.
• Commercially grounded in banking economics: understands how banks evaluate liquidity, funding, risk, and operating-model change
• Clear and credible communicator: able to translate complex strategic and technical concepts into concise narratives for senior audiences.
• Collaborative integrator: works effectively across strategy, product, technology, and engagement teams without operating in silos.
• Structured and outcome-oriented: able to drive clarity, prioritization, and decision support in fast-moving environments.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change: adapts quickly as priorities, inputs, and constraints evolve.

Requirements

• "A yes-and" mindset: focused on progress and building on top of others' ideas.
• Curiosity and motivation to build expertise in emerging digital asset and payment models.
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change: objectives may shift

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