VP, Regulatory Operations - Digital Assets

Department: Product Management. Location: New York, NY; Tampa, FL.

About The Role

VanEck is building the infrastructure to distribute tokenized financial products at scale. Our suite now spans tokenized treasuries, gold, money market funds, and tokenized ETFs, and the regulatory and operational complexity has grown with it. This role sits between what we want to build and the compliance work required to actually launch it. The VP of Regulatory Operations will coordinate closely with our current FinOps principal on broker-dealer operations, own the KYC/AML framework for our onchain distribution, and advise the team on where regulation for tokenized securities is heading. Over time, the expectation is that this person qualifies for and steps into the FinOps principal role for the new digital asset broker-dealer. The role also works closely with the existing CCO, who keeps primary responsibility for SEC engagement, and should be able to take on a larger leadership role as the business grows.

Core Responsibilities

• Work alongside our FinOps principal on day-to-day regulatory compliance and reporting for VanEck's new digital asset broker-dealer entity (FINRA, SEC Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3), with a path to assuming the FinOps principal role.
• Manage the operational buildout of the BD in coordination with legal, finance, and product, covering supervisory procedures, books and records, and net capital calculations.
• Develop and maintain the policies and controls framework specific to the new BD's limited-purpose scope.
• Serve as the internal escalation point for BD-related compliance questions across the tokenization team.
• Track the digital asset regulatory landscape across the SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, FINRA, OCC, and state regulators (NYDFS in particular), and translate what changes into practical product guidance.
• Advise on new product structures and distribution strategies under the current rules, flagging constraints and identifying workable paths forward.
• Work with legal and product teams on licensing requirements for new geographies (MTLs and foreign licenses relevant to APAC and EMEA distribution).
• Contribute to internal memos, board materials, and partner presentations requiring regulatory analysis.
• Build and own the KYC/AML framework for onchain