Nikolas Sargeant
BlackRock is scaling its digital assets operation with new recruitment across New York, London, and Singapore, posting senior roles spanning tokenization, stablecoins, and crypto market infrastructure as the world's largest asset manager deepens its commitment to blockchain-based financial products.
Robert Mitchnick, who leads BlackRock's digital assets strategy, announced the recruitment drive, stating the firm is hiring for multiple leadership positions across its digital assets team in New York, London, and Asia. The openings range from associate roles to senior leadership, covering product strategy, research, fund services, and compliance, according to job listings posted on BlackRock's careers pages.
One of the most senior positions, a managing director role based in New York, offers a salary range of $270,000 to $350,000 and tasks the hire with leading major cross-firm digital assets initiatives tied to crypto assets, stablecoins, and tokenization. The role indicates BlackRock's ambition to build comprehensive infrastructure across multiple blockchain-based product categories rather than focusing narrowly on single offerings.
In Singapore, BlackRock is hiring a managing director to oversee digital assets strategy across the Asia Pacific region, with responsibilities including developing multi-year commercial plans, shaping regulatory engagement, and mapping distribution channels through banks, brokers, cryptocurrency exchanges, and fintech platforms. The Asia-focused position reflects BlackRock's recognition of the region's importance in cryptocurrency adoption and regulatory development.
BlackRock's job listings also point to global expansion in digital asset tokenization infrastructure and control systems, with roles covering fund services, financial crime compliance, and legal coverage for European, Middle Eastern, and African markets. The breadth of functions suggests BlackRock is building end-to-end capabilities rather than outsourcing critical compliance and operational components.
The firm is requiring new hires to work on-site, with postings emphasizing a hybrid model mandating at least four days per week in the office and one day working remotely. The in-person requirement suggests BlackRock views digital assets work as requiring close collaboration and direct supervision rather than the remote-first models some cryptocurrency-native firms have adopted.
The hiring expansion follows BlackRock's successful entry into cryptocurrency markets through its spot Bitcoin ETF, which has helped integrate digital assets deeper into traditional investment portfolios. The iShares Bitcoin Trust has become one of the most successful ETF launches in history, accumulating billions in assets under management within months of approval.
BlackRock has also advanced into on-chain finance through its tokenized institutional liquidity fund on Ethereum, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL). The tokenized Treasury product represents traditional fixed-income securities on blockchain infrastructure, enabling 24/7 settlement and programmable compliance features unavailable in conventional securities markets.
BlackRock positioned its iShares Bitcoin Trust among its top investment themes for 2025, placing it alongside short-term Treasuries and a mega-cap US technology basket. The prominent placement signals the firm views cryptocurrency exposure as a core portfolio building block for certain client segments rather than a speculative or alternative allocation.
Tokenization infrastructure is central to BlackRock's blockchain strategy, with the BUIDL fund already integrated into institutional workflows. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance accepted BUIDL as collateral, marking a milestone for tokenized Treasuries in institutional-style trading operations and demonstrating interoperability between traditional finance products and cryptocurrency platforms.
Collectively, the job postings suggest BlackRock is professionalizing digital assets across the full technology stack—product development, market structure design, risk management, regulatory compliance, and regional execution—as it positions for cryptocurrency's evolution beyond speculative trading toward systematic portfolio integration.
The expansion contrasts with cryptocurrency-native firms that have faced regulatory scrutiny and operational challenges, with BlackRock leveraging its institutional credibility, regulatory relationships, and operational infrastructure to establish presence in digital assets without the compliance difficulties that have affected exchange-focused competitors.
