Head of Enterprise Digital Assets & Tokenization

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

14

The Team

The Head of Enterprise Digital Assets & Tokenization leads S&P Global's central Digital Assets & Tokenization team, reporting to S&P DJI's Head of Business Acceleration & Special Projects, who oversees the team on behalf of S&P Global's Head of DeFi (Chief Product & Operations Officer, S&P DJI).

S&P Global's position is straightforward: markets execute on trust, and S&P anchors it — on every rail. Our data, identifiers, benchmarks, indices and risk assessments are the infrastructure of trusted workflows, and they must be as authoritative onchain as they are today. This is a small, senior team with an enterprise mandate to make that happen: set direction, prioritize where the firm invests, unblock divisions, and land the external partnerships that de-risk each initiative.

The team is deliberately lean. It is not a shadow product organization and not a research function. Divisions own delivery and revenue; this team sets the agenda, sponsors funding, brings partners to the table and holds the enterprise to a bias for in-production outcomes rather than pilots. Delivery capacity is drawn from divisional execution pods and from Kensho engineering. The role has two direct reports at the outset, with scope to grow as the portfolio warrants.

Responsibilities and Impact

Enterprise Strategy, Prioritization & Capital Allocation

• Own the enterprise digital assets and tokenization strategy day-to-day, translating it into a prioritized, funded and sequenced portfolio of initiatives across divisions.
• Run a single intake for divisional requests and enterprise-originated opportunities; apply and continuously sharpen the "Start Now" screening criteria and stage gates covering division readiness, resourcing, partner commitment and regulatory sensitivity.
• Co-own and sponsor business cases that secure investment at both enterprise and divisional level; make explicit recommendations on what to start, what to hold and what to stop.
• Maintain a defensible, evidence-based view of market direction – tokenization economics, onchain market structure, and the AI × blockchain intersection – and use it to keep the firm's portfolio ahead of, not behind, client demand.

Delivery & Execution with Divisions

• Drive priority initiatives to in-production status with paying customers, augmenting divisional teams that lack capacity, depth or delivery muscle.
• Appoint and hold a single accountable owner for each enterprise or divisional opportunity; empower them to execute and remove the obstacles they cannot clear themselves.
• Build the playbooks, trained people and repeatable processes that divisions own after handover, so central involvement is time-boxed by design.
• Maintain a live enterprise view of initiative milestones, decisions and dependencies; cut duplication and connect complementary work across divisions.

External Partnerships & Commercial Development

• Build and personally hold senior relationships across the institutions that matter most in onchain capital markets — onchain-native platforms, issuers, protocols and infrastructure providers, and the banks, asset managers and market infrastructure firms moving onto these rails.
• Negotiate partnerships in which counterparties co-invest, commit to production use and provide the requirements that ensure fit within their workflows; avoid peripheral collaborations that consume time without producing adoption.
• Shape commercial constructs for onchain distribution — consumption and per-call economics, licensing terms, and pricing models suited to agent- and protocol-mediated consumption — in partnership with divisional commercial and legal teams.
• Represent S&P Global externally with credibility: conferences, standards bodies, working groups, industry consortia, and direct engagement with founders, investors and executives.

Internal Alignment, Governance & Risk

• Convene and run the enterprise governance forum for digital assets, preparing the material and framing the decisions that senior sponsors need to make.
• Align divisions, corporate functions and enterprise leadership behind a shared set of priorities, resolving competing interests and sequencing trade-offs so that initiatives advance on mutual benefit rather than mandate.
• Keep Legal, Risk and Compliance sighted on everything in flight; run a lightweight, fast checkpoint before any initiative moves from exploration to pilot or commitment, protecting the firm from legal, compliance and reputational exposure.
• Escalate cleanly and early: surface new opportunities, emerging risks and stop decisions to the governing council with a clear recommendation.

Leadership & Influence

• Lead a small, high-calibre team and grow it as the portfolio warrants; set a standard of ownership, pace and evidence-based argument.
• Work with talent and engineering leadership to build protocol and AI × blockchain capability across the firm, including through Kensho.
• Act as a trusted advisor to divisional and enterprise leaders: direct about trade-offs, credible on the technology, and grounded in commercial reality.
• Operate almost entirely through influence rather than direct authority, across a global, matrixed organization.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in capital markets, asset management, financial data and infrastructure, or digital assets, including senior roles with enterprise-wide or firm-building scope.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in digital assets: tokenized products, digital asset funds or indices, onchain infrastructure, or the operational and control build-out required to bring them to market. Operator experience is valued well above observer experience.
• Proven track record of standing up new businesses, products or functions from zero to production, including vendor, counterparty and partner selection, launch, and the operating processes that sustain them.
• An established external network across onchain-native firms and traditional financial institutions, and the credibility to open and hold senior relationships from a standing start.
• Commercial judgment: experience building business cases, structuring partnerships and commercial terms, and making disciplined calls on where to invest and where to walk away.
• Demonstrated success aligning competing priorities and stakeholder interests across independent business units, and delivering through influence rather than direct authority.
• Executive-level communication: able to brief senior leadership and external principals with equal clarity, and to challenge as well as partner.
• Comfort operating within regulatory, legal and compliance constraints, and partnering with control functions to move quickly without creating exposure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience launching regulated, index-linked or benchmark-linked products, or working with ratings, reference data, identifiers or index production.
• Sufficient technical fluency in blockchain architecture, smart contracts and onchain data to engage engineering teams and partners substantively; a hands-on engineering background is not required.
• Experience building and scaling small teams, and handing capability over to larger organizations.
• Exposure to board, investment committee or council-level governance.

Compensation/Benefits Information:(This section is only applicable to US candidates)

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $185,000 to $265,000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.

In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please clickhere.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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