Director Digital Assets

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Director, GFC Strategy - Digital Assets in Legal and Compliance to support control and monitoring enhancements and contribute to the execution of key digital assets initiatives across the program

In the Legal & Compliance division, we assist the Firm in achieving its business objectives by facilitating and overseeing the Firm's management of legal, regulatory and franchise risk. This is a Director level position within the FC Strategy team with a focus on digital assets. This role is centered on hands-on strategy and execution across the digital assets financial crimes program, including transaction monitoring surveillance, blockchain analytics, RCA, typology development, and cross-functional implementation.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

• Support and enhance the digital assets financial crimes framework (program structure, policies, standards, controls).
• Perform RCAs and data-driven analysis of transactions and blockchain activity to identify risks, trends, and typologies.
• Assist with RCA reviews for new digital asset products, including documenting findings and tracking remediation actions.
• Develop metrics, reporting, and materials to support transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics, and program oversight.
• Help design, implement, and optimize monitoring scenarios, analytics, and key risk indicators.
• Support UAT efforts, including validating requirements, test scenarios, results, and implementation readiness.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (business, product, legal, ops, technology) on digital asset initiatives and controls.
• Support regulatory/audit responses and track program workstreams, dependencies, and remediation activities.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, RCA, transaction monitoring, or blockchain analytics within a global financial institution.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in crypto, blockchain, or digital assets.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. and global digital asset regulations (e.g., BSA/AML, OFAC, SEC, FinCEN).
• Experience analyzing customer, transaction, and blockchain data to identify typologies, red flags, and emerging risks.
• Hands-on experience with transaction monitoring, scenario development, alert logic, and blockchain analytics.
• Experience supporting UAT, including requirements validation, testing, and defect tracking for surveillance enhancements.
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently and manage priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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