Director — Strategic Operations

Aspera Edge's institutional operations span treasury operations, risk and governance, financial infrastructure supervision, institutional engagement, legal operations, and strategic intelligence — functions that require coordination across the operating layer, deployment standards, and operational continuity at the executive level. The Strategic Operations function exists to coordinate this complexity.

The Director — Strategic Operations is the operating principal of this function. The role coordinates execution across the firm's functions, establishes deployment standards, and translates leadership commitments into operational reality at institutional scale.

Lead strategic operations across the firm. Coordinate execution across the operating layer, establish deployment standards, and translate leadership commitments into operational reality across counterparty deployments.

The Director operates as the coordinator of institutional execution — owning the interface between leadership intent and operational deployment. The role establishes how the firm executes against counterparty engagements, how handoffs occur between functions, and how operational continuity is maintained across treasury, risk, engagement, infrastructure, and legal deployments.

Day-to-day, the role coordinates with the Director — Treasury Operations on treasury deployment standards, with the Head of Compliance Operations on compliance integration into counterparty engagement, with the Director — Financial Infrastructure Oversight on infrastructure deployment, with the Head of Institutional Engagement on counterparty execution coordination, and with the Chief Operating Officer on executive operating standards.

The function operates against the reality that institutional execution at scale requires coordination architecture across the operating layer — and that handoffs between engagement, deployment execution, and steady-state operations are constitutive of institutional credibility.

• Lead strategic operations across the firm, including operating standards spanning functions, deployment standards, and institutional execution architecture
• Coordinate counterparty deployment across treasury, risk, engagement, infrastructure, and legal functions during counterparty engagement and deployment phases
• Establish operating standards for execution across the operating layer, including handoff protocols between engagement and deployment, deployment and steady-state operations, and escalation pathways across functions
• Direct executive coordination across the operating layer, including operating reviews, deployment retrospectives, and operations reporting to the COO and CEO
• Operate handoff coordination across functions, including engagement-to-deployment handoff, deployment-to-operations handoff, and handoff coordination across jurisdictional anchors
• Handle incident escalation across functions — deployment incident, operational continuity incident, jurisdictional handoff disruption — through documented escalation protocols
• Translate commitments from leadership into operational deployment standards across counterparty engagements
• Coordinate operational continuity across the firm, including business continuity protocols, incident response across functions, and operational coherence maintenance
• Establish operating standards documentation and operational governance architecture supporting the broader firm

• Coordination across treasury, risk and governance, financial infrastructure, institutional engagement, legal and structural operations, strategy and research, and people and institutional formation functions
• Counterparty deployment operations spanning multinational enterprise treasury, finance, and operations leadership
• Executive operating layer engagement with COO, CEO, and broader executive leadership
• Operating coordination across New York, London, Singapore institutional anchors
• Deployment phases spanning engagement → deployment → steady-state operations
• Incident coordination across the firm's operating functions
• Operating standards architecture spanning the firm's full functional scope

• 12+ years operations leadership at institutional financial firm, with operations leadership experience spanning multiple functions at multi-jurisdictional scale
• Demonstrated experience leading execution across functions at institutional firms, including operations function leadership at firms with treasury, risk, engagement, and infrastructure operating layers
• Strategic operations or chief-of-staff background at institutional financial firm preferred
• Operating experience across at least two of the following operational anchors: Americas, EMEA, APAC
• Executive engagement experience — direct working relationships with C-suite leadership including CEO, COO, and functional principal coordination
• Operating discipline appropriate for institutional infrastructure environments — procedural rigor, coordination across functions, executive escalation management
• Architectural thinking across the operating layer — capacity to design operating standards spanning multiple functions rather than optimizing single-function operations