Strategy Analyst, Anchorage Digital

Member of Corporate Planning

Salary not provided
Junior level
Remote in US
Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

Be an early applicant

Anchorage Digital

Regulated crypto platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Junior level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Company mission

To help institutions participate securely in digital assets, by setting a new standard for crypto finance.

Role

Who you are

  • You are a well-rounded strategy professional with strong writing, policy development, and project management skills, who has the ability to significantly contribute to medium-to-large program development efforts and other projects, and to the culture within Anchorage Digital. You are recognized as a reliable partner who can apply expertise to have meaningful influence within and outside the team
  • Technical Skills:
  • Demonstrate growing knowledge of analytical and program management methods, planning and governance frameworks, and change- and project-management methodologies
  • Demonstrate experience applying research, written, analytical, and program management methods to support regulatory, strategic, and internal controls’ management efforts in defining programs that support sound regulatory engagement, strategic planning, and internal controls’ management
  • Organizational Knowledge:
  • Are aware of the strategy of Anchorage Digital, the top company objectives expressing that strategy, and the main efforts underway to guarantee its successful implementation
  • Monitor the development of the company objectives and/or trends that may affect Anchorage Digital’s capacity to succeed
  • Ensure that knowledge is shared amongst the Corporate Planning team and work to position yourself or others so as to avoid any single point of failure
  • 1-2 years of experience as a business analyst in strategy consulting, investment banking, venture capital, or similar fields
  • Experience in writing, editing, or reviewing technical documents in the regulatory or banking space

Desirable

  • Experience coordinating with diverse stakeholder groups
  • You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system :)

What the job involves

  • As a Member of Corporate Planning, Strategy Analyst, you are responsible for supporting AD’s Corporate Planning Lead in managing firmwide cross-functional projects; supporting the execution of all Corporate Planning team regulatory, strategic, and internal controls’-related activities; and coordinating standing team meetings, reporting activities, and other cadences internally and in connection with key external stakeholder partners
  • You are recognized as a meaningful contributor to corporate planning team activities, with the analytical chops and internal influence required to measurably enhance the corporate planning team’s ability to execute
  • You are responsible for providing program management support for the firm’s annual firmwide strategic planning exercise; supporting program management efforts in connection with the firm’s implementation of its target operating model (TOM); and providing research, analytical, and program management support for ad hoc strategic projects as required
  • You will assist the team’s regulatory operations and strategic arms in coordinating with regulators and firm leaders in sustaining sound corporate governance; support the team’s internal controls’ function with maintaining internal controls firmwide; and perform other governance-related reviews as required. You will partner with Corporate Planning functions to define and deliver relevant MIS reporting for the firm’s C-Suite enabling yet more effective and efficient firmwide collaboration
  • You are capable of contributing to the development of company goals and objectives, and expected to help define the long-term strategy of the firm and execute it with our team of talented planners
  • Provide program management support for firmwide annual strategic planning program and ad hoc runs as required
  • Support program management of outstanding Target Operating Model implementation in collaboration with AD's Compliance, Finance, Legal, and People teams
  • Provide research, analytical, and program management support for periodic committee reporting, leadership updates, and ad hoc strategic projects as required
  • Support operational strategy team with quarterly operational planning runs for functional teams across Anchorage Digital
  • Support internal controls team with maintenance of controls’ library in coordination with cross-functional partners in Marketing, Compliance, and Information Security among others
  • Perform additional governance-related reviews to assist in meeting client needs expeditiously
  • Support administrative needs for Corporate Planning team alignment, including coordinating standing meetings with cross-functional stakeholders, managing issue logs, facilitating team planning, etc
  • Partner with Corporate Planning teams to define and deliver relevant MIS reporting for Head of Global Operations oversight and broader C-Suite decision-making
  • Enable AD-wide collaboration by supporting development of materials for team presentations/reporting and leadership updates
  • Communication and Influence:
  • Listen and speak properly with other team members, demonstrate clear communication in the status of work, and proactively share information that impacts other colleagues, manager, and team managers or leads
  • Contribute actively to team activities as a team player, building productive internal and external working relationships

Our take

Anchorage is a crypto-native digital asset platform offering a raft of solutions that help companies leverage blockchain technologies. Their advanced security architecture facilitates streamlined access to the complex and fragmented digital asset space.

Financial backing for Anchorage has come from prestigious investors Visa and Andreessen Horowitz. Anchorage's broad offerings are set to be matched by plans to partner across a wide spread of neobanks, challenger & incumbent banks, and corporate treasurers. This would mean an impressive expansion of their already substantial domain of influence in a rapidly developing sector.

In early 2021, Anchorage secured a national trust charter from the OCC, making it the first-ever federally chartered digital asset bank. This is significant, as it provides a good barrier to entry for other companies looking to compete in this space, and gives legacy institutions the ability to offer digital asset access to their clients. Though it has raised considerable funding in the past, crypto instability and wider macroeconomic challenges forced Anchorage to cut 20% of its staff in March 2023. 2022 clampdowns on customer due dilligence internal controllers added to the pressure on Anchorage to streamline and refocus its efforts.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Dec 2021

$350m

SERIES D

Feb 2021

$80m

SERIES C

Total funding: $487m

Company benefits

  • 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
  • Family comes first: we offer parental and child bonding leave to all new parents
  • Meaningful equity - Every team member is a part owner in the company and community that we’re all building together
  • We allow employees to work anywhere in the U.S. or Portugal, and have physical workspaces in New York, San Francisco, South Dakota, and Portugal
  • Flexible time-off plan - Take time off, guilt-free, so you can recharge when you need to
  • 401(k) plan & FSA account

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

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Leadership

Diogo Mónica

(Executive Chairman)

Former advisor and board member at Jscrambler and advisor at StackRox with Phd in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Tecnico.

Former director at Vendor Security Alliance and Docker. Former Security Engineering Manager at Square.

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