Sr. Business Development, Global & Treasury Services

Overview

About Digital Asset & the Canton Network:
Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance. The Canton Network is the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance.

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney, we are on a mission to transform finance. If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.

Opportunity

Digital Asset is pioneering the transformation of global capital markets through the Canton Network, the first privacy-enabled interoperable blockchain for regulated financial institutions. Our Business Development team is at the forefront of defining new market opportunities, shaping industry engagement, and driving adoption of Daml and Canton solutions across securities, payments, collateral, and financing workflows.

We are seeking a highly experienced senior executive with deep expertise in global payments and corporate treasury to join our leadership team. Reporting to the Chief Business Development Officer, this role will play a critical part in developing and executing strategies that bring transaction banks, corporates, and market infrastructures into the Canton Network, creating innovative use cases across cash management, cross-border and real-time payments, liquidity and collateral optimization, and new on-chain treasury products.

The ideal candidate will combine 20+ years of senior-level experience in global payments, transaction banking, and treasury services with the ability to build trusted relationships at the highest levels of the industry, regulators, and client organizations. This is a role for a thought leader and market builder who can turn vision into practical, compelling strategies and market solutions.

• Market Strategy and Use Case Development - Define and lead the development of detailed, actionable use cases for global payments and treasury across the cash and payments lifecycle, including collections, disbursements, cross-border and high-value payments, real-time and instant payments, FX and liquidity management, cash concentration, virtual accounts, escrow, and on-chain treasury solutions.
• Client and Market Engagement - Drive consultative, senior-level discussions with global market participants, including transaction and correspondent banks, custodians, payment processors, card and network providers, corporate treasurers, asset managers, stablecoin and payment-token issuers, regulators, and market infrastructure providers (e.g., RTGS and instant payment systems).
• Industry Relationships - Build and maintain trusted relationships with C-suite executives, boards, and regulators, positioning Digital Asset as a key partner in the digital transformation of global payments, corporate cashflows, and treasury management.
• Multi-Party Solution Design - Identify the right mix of market participants for each use case and bring them together to co-create multi-party payments and treasury solutions on the Canton Network.
• Execution Leadership - Lead discussions on the legal, regulatory, accounting, and operational aspects of market implementations, including settlement finality, funds safeguarding, AML/KYC considerations, and liquidity management—to ensure solutions are practical, compliant, and industry-ready.
• Industry Presence and Thought Leadership - Represent Digital Asset and the Canton Network at industry conferences, on panels, in podcasts, blogs, and media interviews as a credible and authoritative voice on the future of global payments, corporate treasury, and…