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SVP, Tokenization

Fort Lee, NJHybridFull TimeVice President$250,000–$300,000 /yrPosted 23 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • tokenized issuance
  • distribution
  • institutional investors
  • onchain settlement
  • USDC
  • reporting
  • servicing
  • P&L
  • consumer credit
  • small-business credit

Nice to have

  • builder's temperament
  • comfort with ambiguity

Role summary

Cross River is seeking an SVP, Tokenization to build and lead a new business focused on tokenizing consumer credit and distributing it to institutional investors. This founding, P&L-controlling role requires end-to-end ownership of tokenized issuance, distribution, onchain settlement in USDC, and the associated data, reporting, and servicing infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in private credit, specialty finance, or alternative asset management, with demonstrated ownership of an Asset Management function and experience in consumer credit transactions. Responsibilities include managing the P&L, building investor relationships, defining technology strategy, overseeing onchain operations, and ensuring regulatory compliance within a bank's control environment. The role involves hiring and leading a small, senior team.

Who We Are

Cross River builds the infrastructure behind the world’s most innovative financial products. Our technology and capital solutions power payments, cards, lending, and digital asset capabilities that move money safely, instantly, and inclusively — trusted by leading fintechs, enterprises, and disruptors across the globe.

Our mission is simple: to build the financial infrastructure that expands access and opportunity for all. Guided by a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and purpose, Cross River has been named one of American Banker’s Best Places to Work in Fintech year after year. Whether you’re designing code, solving regulatory puzzles, or developing strategy, you’ll join a team where innovation and integrity drive everything we do — and where your work helps shape the future of finance.

What We're Looking For

Cross River originates billions in consumer credit annually through its multiple partners. We are building the rail that packages Cross River-originated credit and other interests into tokenized form, distributes it to institutional investors nationally and internationally through licensed partners, settles onchain, and provides the reporting and servicing infrastructure that institutional buyers require. The General Manager owns that business end to end: tokenized issuance, distribution through licensed partners, onchain settlement in USDC, and the data, NAV, attestation and investor-reporting infrastructure.

This is a founding, P&L-controlling seat. You will not inherit a template, a partner playbook, or a technology stack- you will decide what they should be. You will work alongside the Bank's origination, structured product and principal finance teams, who supply, structure and price the assets, while you own everything that happens after: how the asset is tokenized, distributed and how it is reported on for its life.

Mandate. Take the business from first transaction to functioning platform.

Launch. Establish the legal, technical and operational chain end to end, and execute the first programs.

Industrialize. Turn bespoke execution into a repeatable product, so that each successive program launches faster and costs less than the last.

Broaden. Expand the range of offering and distribution.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Commercial ownership. Manage the P&L. Justify each programme and be accountable for the returns the business generates.
  • Distribution. Build and manage relationships with licensed distribution partners and institutional investors internationally, converting early interest into recurring programmes.
  • Tokenization and settlement. Own the technology strategy, including what to build and what to buy. Own onchain issuance, transfer controls, and stablecoin settlement operations.
  • Data, servicing and reporting. Own the infrastructure behind every programme: loan-level data pipelines, reconciliation, NAV production, payment waterfalls, third-party verification, delinquency monitoring, and institutional-grade investor reporting. This is a build responsibility, and it is central to the role.
  • Controls and perimeter. Operate within a regulated bank's control environment, working with Principal Finance, CRB Securities, Legal, Compliance and Risk to maintain a clean regulatory perimeter in every market served.
  • Team. Hire and lead a small, senior, cross-functional team as needed.

    • Qualifications:

    Required

  • 10+ years in private credit, specialty finance, structured credit, or alternative asset management, in a front-office/middle-office or front-office-adjacent role.
  • Demonstrated ownership of an Asset Management function, P&L, portfolio, or product mandate. With transactions closed in consumer or small-business credit - forward flow, whole loan sales, participations, or securitization - with accountability for how they performed afterwards.
  • Genuine ownership of the operational side of the business: loan-level data, investor reporting, servicing oversight, reconciliation. Candidates whose experience covers transaction execution only will NOT be a fit. Fluency in consumer credit collateral and in structuring mechanics: subordination, waterfalls, reinvestment structures, triggers and eligibility.
  • Exposure to tokenized real-world assets, permissioned token standards, or stablecoin settlement. Experience inside a regulated bank's control environment. Credibility with institutional investors and their investment committees. Builder's temperament, and comfort with ambiguity.

    • Preferred

  • Smart contract mechanics, chain selection and token standards
  • Stablecoin settlement and treasury operations
  • Local regulatory regimes in Asia

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    Salary Range: $250,000.00 - $300,000.00

    Cross River is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cross River does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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