Galaxy

VP, Forward Deployed Lead

Galaxy
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$215k - $285k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own product and technical direction, including roadmaps, architecture decisions, technical standards, and hands-on software work.
  • Drive account growth by identifying expansion opportunities, advising senior client stakeholders, and converting successful delivery into further engagements.
  • Lead discovery and executive relationships from engineering teams through C-suite stakeholders at complex financial institutions.
  • Translate client needs in custody, settlement, tokenization, trading, and regulatory contexts into actionable solutions.
  • Rotate into R&D and Innovation to lead 0-to-1 products involving blockchain and AI and create reusable components and playbooks.
  • Represent customer insights within Galaxy’s product organization and influence future product direction.
  • Champion thoughtful adoption of AI tools, automation platforms, and data copilots to improve productivity and decision-making.

Requirements

  • Proven record of owning outcomes end to end in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
  • Production software delivery experience and sufficient technical depth to lead engineers credibly.
  • Demonstrated commercial instinct, including converting delivered work into expanded scope or revenue.
  • Strong executive presence and ability to communicate from technical whiteboards to C-suite briefings.
  • Founder-grade agency, independent judgment, low ego, and strong outcome orientation.
  • Typically 6+ years across forward-deployed or solutions engineering, technical product management, and client-facing delivery.
  • Willingness to travel approximately 25–40% of the time.
  • Bonus: experience with digital assets or blockchain infrastructure and delivery into Tier-1 financial institutions.
  • Bonus: hands-on production LLM or AI agent experience.
  • Bonus: technical founder or quota-carrying solutions architect experience.
  • Bonus: fluency in custody, settlement, payment rails, tokenization, or trading systems.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus.
  • Hybrid/flexible working arrangements.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • 3% 401(k) company contribution.
  • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents.
  • Generous paid parental leave and competitive family planning benefits for US employees.
  • Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry.
  • Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts/lunches.
  • Employee Resource Groups.
  • Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Galaxy

About Galaxy

1,001-5,000 employees

Galaxy provides an institutional digital-assets platform spanning trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, and it builds and operates AI/HPC data-center infrastructure. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates the Helios campus in Texas and is developing a multi-gigawatt U.S. capacity pipeline. It monetizes through fees, market activities, and infrastructure services for financial institutions and enterprises across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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