[Remote] Vice President, Digital Asset Research and Strategy

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. JCE is hiring a Vice President, Digital Asset Research & Strategy to direct research into digital asset markets, blockchain ecosystems, emerging financial technologies, and strategic business opportunities. The role turns market intelligence into recommendations for corporate planning, investment evaluation, product development, and long-term growth, while establishing research priorities and analytical standards and advising executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Directs research into digital asset markets, blockchain ecosystems, emerging financial technologies, and strategic business opportunities
• Converts market intelligence into practical recommendations that support corporate planning, investment evaluation, product development, and long-term growth
• Establish research priorities, guide strategic assessments, and ensure that executive decisions are supported by credible evidence, documented assumptions, and realistic risk scenarios
• Monitor digital asset market structure, liquidity, trading activity, capital flows, institutional participation, and shifts in investor behavior
• Evaluate how monetary policy, interest rates, regulatory developments, and broader financial market conditions may influence digital asset adoption and market performance
• Research Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, tokenized assets, decentralized finance, blockchain infrastructure, and other relevant market segments
• Identify structural changes that may affect competitive positioning, customer demand, business opportunities, or long-term strategic priorities
• Maintain a prioritized research agenda based on commercial relevance, potential impact, available evidence, and executive decision requirements
• Prepare timely market briefings when significant developments require leadership attention
• Lead comparative research into digital assets, blockchain networks, protocols, and related business models
• Assess project fundamentals, technology architecture, governance, competitive differentiation, adoption patterns, and long-term sustainability
• Analyze token supply schedules, issuance mechanisms, distribution concentration, incentive structures, governance rights, and potential dilution
• Evaluate network activity, developer participation, user engagement, ecosystem growth, and other indicators appropriate to each project's maturity and purpose
• Examine whether reported activity reflects sustainable demand or depends heavily on temporary incentives, speculative behavior, or promotional claims
• Compare competing projects using consistent analytical criteria while accounting for differences in use cases, market conditions, and development stages
• Document key assumptions, unresolved questions, material risks, and the evidence needed to validate or challenge each research thesis
• Identify potential opportunities involving digital asset services, blockchain applications, tokenization, financial infrastructure, institutional participation, and related technology markets
• Assess potential partnerships, market-entry options, and new business initiatives against strategic fit, commercial viability, competitive intensity, and implementation requirements
• Develop financial scenarios to estimate potential costs, resource requirements, revenue drivers, and downside exposure where sufficient data is available
• Prepare decision memoranda outlining the opportunity, supporting evidence, alternative approaches, key uncertainties, and recommended next steps
• Establish explicit criteria for advancing, deferring, monitoring, or discontinuing the evaluation of an opportunity
• Present recommendations to executive leadership while respecting established investment approval, budgeting, and risk management processes
• Build a consistent analytical process that allows decision-makers to understand not only the conclusions but also the evidence and assumptions behind them
• Validate data sources, document methodologies, separate verified facts from estimates, and arrange independent reviews of significant research findings
• Maintain records of major forecasts and recommendations so that subsequent outcomes can be compared with original assumptions
• Incorporate relevant considerations such as liquidity, custody, counterparty exposure, protocol vulnerabilities, governance concentration, and regulatory uncertainty into research
• Coordinate with legal, compliance, finance, and risk professionals when specialized assessment is necessary
• When new evidence materially changes an earlier conclusion, communicate the change, explain its implications, and recommend whether the organization's existing position or strategy requires reassessment
• Translate market developments into strategic options, business implications, and clear recommendations
• Provide market assumptions, comparative analysis, and scenario assessments for opportunity evaluation and resource-allocation decisions
• Evaluate emerging use cases, adoption trends, infrastructure requirements, and potential technical dependencies
• Supply competitive intelligence, market mapping, and preliminary assessments of partnership opportunities
• Identify material exposures and coordinate additional review where research intersects with specialized regulatory or operational considerations
• Determine research staffing needs, mentor analysts, establish review standards, and allocate analytical resources according to organizational priorities

Skills

• 20+ years of progressive professional experience in financial research, investment analysis, market intelligence, corporate strategy, financial services, or related disciplines
• Demonstrated experience evaluating complex markets, financial instruments, emerging technologies, or business models
• Strong understanding of digital asset markets, blockchain ecosystems, token economics, and factors influencing adoption and market structure
• Experience developing analytical frameworks, financial scenarios, competitive assessments, and strategic recommendations
• Strong quantitative and qualitative reasoning, including the ability to identify limitations in incomplete or inconsistent data
• Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial and technical concepts clearly
• Experience leading research professionals or coordinating multidisciplinary analytical work
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience in investment management, fintech, financial services, technology research, consulting, or other research-intensive environments is relevant
• Direct experience at a digital asset exchange is not required
• An advanced degree

Benefits

• Annual performance incentives may be included.
• Equity or long-term incentive opportunities may be included where applicable.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance may be included.
• A 401(k) plan may be included.
• Paid time off may be included.
• Company holidays may be included.
• Approved business travel reimbursement may be included.
• United States-based work, with remote, hybrid, or on-site options depending on organizational needs.

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