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About Clear Street: Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.  We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We’ve agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients.  By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.   The Team You will be a foundational Digital Assets Operations team member on a team with deep crypto operations experience. The Digital Assets leadership team brings extensive experience from market-leading crypto institutions spanning prime brokerage, payments, exchange operations, and Product at the institutional level. You will be joining a group of top-tier digital assets professionals with a shared mission to build a market-leading product for retail and institutional clients.   The Role We are looking for an Associate Director who brings deep experience running institutional-grade crypto operations and the vision to build and iterate processes that are efficient, resilient, technology-forward, and tightly risk-controlled. You will own the day-to-day functioning of the US-based Digital Asset Ops team and have the mandate to evolve it. You will drive automation and AI-agentic workflows, raising the bar on controls and reconciliation, and building a team and operating model capable of scaling with the business in a 24/7 market. This is for someone who has excelled in an Operations role at a top-tier digital assets firm, isn't content with the status quo, has a point of view on how institutional crypto ops should work, and wants to build toward that vision with the backing of a high-growth, modern, well-capitalized prime broker.   Key Responsibilities Partner with Product and Engineering on the roadmap, serving as the operational voice in product development ensuring new features, workflows, and capabilities are designed with operational efficiency, scalability, and risk controls in mind from the start, not retrofitted after the fact. Own all counterparty settlement execution across market makers, liquidity providers, exchanges, and custodians, handling incoming requests within pre-agreed timeframes and serving as the primary point of contact across a diverse counterparty portfolio spanning both fiat and crypto rails. Track and report against assigned operational KPIs. Ensure trade, transfer, and inventory reconciliation across internal subsystems and external counterparties including banks and custodians, covering both on-chain crypto settlement and fiat payment flows across global payment rails. Identify breaks, resolve them in partnership with relevant teams, and continuously improve reconciliation completeness and robustness. Monitor daily inventory needs across settlement, lending, and borrowing activity, including wallet rebalancing and liquidity threshold management across custodied assets, coordinating directly with Treasury Management. Build and lead a high-performing operations team structured and staffed to operate effectively in a 24/7 market. Partner closely with the Trading Desk, Product, and Customer Support teams to understand client expectations and ensure the Operations team consistently delivers with a client-first mindset. Partner with Compliance and Risk to design pragmatic, effective controls suited to a fast-moving and evolving regulatory landscape. Develop trade operations processes built for regulatory compliance. Bu