Director of Blockchain Payments

- Unchained is seeking an experienced and strategic Director of Blockchain Payments to lead the development and execution of bitcoin-native transaction, settlement, and payment infrastructure initiatives across the company’s financial services platform. - The Director of Blockchain Payments will work closely with executive leadership, Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, Compliance, Risk, Trading, and external financial partners to improve how bitcoin moves securely across custody, trading, lending, and institutional workflows. - This role requires deep knowledge of Bitcoin, blockchain transaction infrastructure, wallet architecture, settlement systems, and regulated financial services. The ideal candidate will combine technical fluency with strong commercial judgment and a disciplined approach to security, operational risk, and customer asset protection. - Key Responsibilities - Develop and execute the company’s blockchain transaction and settlement strategy - Lead initiatives involving bitcoin transfers, settlement workflows, wallet infrastructure, and transaction orchestration - Design scalable transaction processes that support collaborative custody, trading, lending, and institutional client workflows - Partner with Product and Engineering teams to define requirements for blockchain payment and settlement capabilities - Evaluate Bitcoin network infrastructure, transaction management tools, wallet technologies, and signing frameworks - Support development of secure deposit, withdrawal, transfer, and settlement workflows - Improve transaction reliability, confirmation monitoring, fee management, and operational efficiency - Evaluate opportunities to streamline settlement between trading, custody, and lending products - Coordinate integration of blockchain transaction infrastructure with internal financial systems and external partners - Support institutional and business clients requiring secure, auditable bitcoin transaction workflows - Develop policies and operating procedures for transaction initiation, approval, signing, broadcasting, and reconciliation - Partner with Security teams on key management, multisignature architecture, transaction authorization, and access controls - Maintain strong segregation of duties and approval workflows around movement of client and company assets - Work with Compliance and Risk teams to assess AML, sanctions, fraud, counterparty, operational, and transaction risks - Support transaction monitoring and escalation procedures for unusual or high-risk activity - Evaluate blockchain analytics and transaction intelligence providers - Establish key performance indicators for transaction success rates, processing times, operational exceptions, and settlement reliability - Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for transaction failures or settlement disruptions - Develop business cases for new blockchain infrastructure and transaction capabilities - Monitor Bitcoin network developments, fee market conditions, protocol improvements, wallet standards, and institutional adoption trends - Prepare executive updates, strategic recommendations, risk assessments, and project dashboards - Manage relationships with infrastructure providers, banking partners, settlement partners, and other external vendors - Mentor product, operations, and project professionals involved in blockchain transaction initiatives - Strategic Focus Areas - The Director of Blockchain Payments will provide leadership across areas including: - Bitcoin transaction infrastructure - On-chain settlement - Collaborative custody workflows - Multisignature transaction architecture - Institutional wallet infrastructure - Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals - Trading settlement - Loan-related bitcoin collateral movements - Transaction authorization - Key management - Bitcoin network fee optimization - Transaction monitoring - Blockchain analytics - Institutional settlement workflows - Wallet-to-wallet transfers - Financial system integrations - Reconciliation and ledger controls - Operational resilience - The Director will be expected to evaluate each initiative from a security, technical, operational, regulatory, and customer experience perspective. - Required Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field - Strong understanding of the Bitcoin network and transaction lifecycle - Strong knowledge of wallets, multisignature systems, private key management, transaction signing, and blockchain confirmations - Experience designing or managing secure digital asset transaction workflows - Strong understanding of transaction reconciliation, operational controls, and financial settlement processes Pay: $280,000.00 - $400,000.00 per year Benefits: - 401(k) - 401(k) matching - Employee assistance program - Employee discount - Flexible schedule - Flexible spending account - Health savings account - Paid parental leave - Paid time off - Profit sharing - Retirement plan - Vision insurance Work Location: Remote