Strategy Manager - Digital Assets

Location: London and Edinburgh

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing: We’re seeking three strategy manager roles for some of our key business areas – Corporate & Commercial Banking, Consumer Relationships & Lending and Insurance, Pensions & Investments. The Digital Finance Lab which sits within Group Payments is responsible for building group‑wide digital‑asset product capabilities, including tokenised money, programmable payments and on‑ledger services. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, product and customer outcomes, acting as the bridge between the Lab and the commercial and corporate banking division. In this role, you’ll define the digital‑assets strategy for the business area, ensuring it’s aligned to divisional priorities and Group strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a primary interface between the Digital Finance Lab and product, coverage and platform teams, identifying customer opportunities where digital assets can enhance outcomes across key domains such as payments, liquidity, trade, lending and treasury services, alongside retail banking, wealth and investment solutions, pensions and insurance.
• Shape end‑to‑end value propositions, from customer need through to product design, delivery and adoption, while supporting senior collaborators by clearly articulating commercial value, customer impact, risks and delivery pathways.
• Ensure solutions are built to be safe, secure and resilient, and aligned with regulatory and risk expectations, translating emerging technologies into clear customer benefits and commercial outcomes.
• Support decision‑making through strong storytelling, insight and evidence‑based recommendations, and ensure propositions meet customer, conduct and regulatory expectations.

Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of banking products and client needs within the corporate and commercial sectors.
• Strong understanding of digital assets, including tokenisation, DLT, programmable money and related ecosystems.
• Proven experience crafting strategy and translating it into deliverable product roadmaps.
• Experience operating in sophisticated, regulated environments with a strong focus on customer outcomes.
• Knowledge of digital‑asset concepts and their application to customer‑facing services.
• Experience working across product strategy, design and delivery.
• Proven ability to develop and communicate strategy in complex environments.
• Experience balancing innovation with long‑term risk and customer considerations.
• Experience in one of the key business areas: insurance, pensions/investments or consumer banking, particularly lending and relationship‑driven products or Corporate & Commercial Banking.

Disability and Accommodation: We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

Benefits:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies