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BNY

Safeguards and moves assets for investors

Senior Vice President, Digital Assets – Policy, Regulatory & Supervisory - Multiple Teams

Legal Counsel & Legal SupportConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNew York, NY, USA$120k - $220kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A J.D. is required, along with strong experience advising financial institutions on regulatory, supervisory, and policy matters.
  • Significant experience spanning external policy and advocacy and internal regulatory execution, ideally within digital assets or adjacent financial services domains.
  • Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory frameworks applicable to digital assets, including NYDFS, OCC, FRB, SEC, and CFTC; awareness of global developments is preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage strategic policy engagement and high-volume operational workflows.
  • Proven experience engaging directly with regulators, policymakers, and/or industry groups.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including drafting comment letters, regulatory submissions, and executive-level materials.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills, with ability to coordinate across multiple concurrent and interdependent initiatives.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-scaling, high-demand environment, with demonstrated prioritization and judgment under capacity constraints.
  • Strategic, proactive mindset combined with execution discipline and attention to detail.
  • Collaborative approach with strong ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead BNY’s end-to-end digital asset engagement, spanning external policy and advocacy and internal regulatory and supervisory execution.
  • Develop and maintain a cohesive enterprise position across legislative, regulatory, and supervisory developments, ensuring alignment across business, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Communications.
  • Proactively shape policy outcomes through engagement with Congress, regulators, and industry bodies, while coordinating BNY’s participation across trade associations and driving consistent external messaging.
  • Lead development of policy materials, including comment letters, white papers, and executive-level briefings, translating emerging developments into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
  • Own execution of a rapidly expanding regulatory and supervisory pipeline, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery aligned with regulatory expectations.
  • Serve as a primary interface with regulators, managing pre-filing engagement, formal submissions, and ongoing supervisory dialogue, while coordinating complex, multi-phase and cross-enterprise regulatory initiatives.
  • Establish and maintain a structured supervisory engagement model and advise business stakeholders on regulatory strategy and approval pathways, while managing competing demands between proactive policy engagement and high-volume regulatory execution.

Desired Qualifications

  • Awareness of global developments in digital asset regulatory frameworks is preferred.
  • Experience within digital assets or adjacent financial services domains is ideal.

About the Company

BNY

Safeguards and moves assets for investors

BNY safeguards financial assets and runs investment services for institutions, investment firms and wealthy clients around the world. Its custody business keeps clients' securities safe and handles the records and transactions needed to administer investment funds. Banks and brokers use its systems to settle trades, manage collateral and send payments, while its investment and wealth businesses manage portfolios and advise clients. It earns servicing and management fees as well as interest on loans and securities funded by client deposits. BNY traces its roots to the Bank of New York, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1784, and is headquartered in New York City.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1784

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