Head of Digital Assets, Personal Wealth Location Malvern, Pennsylvania Charlotte, North Carolina Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas Scottsdale, Arizona Employment Type Full-time Work Arrangement Hybrid Job Description: Head of Digital Assets, Personal Wealth The Head of Digital Assets will lead Vanguard Personal Wealth's digital assets strategy, roadmap, and enterprise execution. Defines how Vanguard will evaluate, prioritize, develop, and implement digital asset capabilities and operating models in a way that serves clients, advances Vanguard's mission, and strengthens our long-term competitive position. Serves as Vanguard's senior subject matter expert for digital assets across Personal Wealth, partnering across digital, technology, operations, client segments, risk, legal, and compliance to shape and deliver a scalable end-to-end strategy. Represents Vanguard externally with industry participants, regulators, and clients, and helps influence thought leadership and market standards in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. Responsibilities: - Defines and leads Personal Wealth's digital assets vision and strategy. Establishes Vanguard's point of view and strategic roadmap for digital assets across Personal Wealth, including where and how Vanguard should participate, what capabilities and infrastructure to build, partner for, or defer, and how to align innovation to Vanguard's mission and client-first principles. - Develops the multi-year digital assets roadmap and drives execution. Translates strategy into a practical, sequenced roadmap with clear use cases, priorities, milestones, dependencies, and success measures. Leads cross-functional delivery from concept through implementation, ensuring proposals are commercially sound, operationally viable, and risk-ready. - Leads evaluation and development of digital asset capabilities and offers. Partners with business leaders to assess digital asset opportunities. Ensures the client offer is clear, differentiated, and aligned to Vanguard's brand and standards. - Shapes the end-to-end operating model for digital assets. Partners across operations, technology, finance, and control groups to define the required operating model, infrastructure, controls, and governance needed to support capabilities at scale. - Builds durable risk, legal, compliance, and governance frameworks. Works in close partnership with Risk, Legal, Compliance, and other control functions to ensure Vanguard's approach reflects applicable regulatory requirements, risk appetite, investor protection principles, and sound governance. Embeds control, auditability, and regulatory readiness into strategy and design from the outset. - Serves as Vanguard's internal and external digital assets authority for Personal Wealth. Advises senior leaders on market developments, regulatory changes, competitor strategies and moves, infrastructure evolution, and implications for Vanguard. Represents Vanguard in industry forums, client meetings, working groups, regulatory discussions, and external thought leadership opportunities as appropriate. - Influences enterprise alignment across Vanguard. Partners across Personal Wealth and the broader enterprise to ensure digital asset decisions are coordinated, scalable, and consistent where appropriate. Helps connect strategy across brokerage, advice, cash, investment products, technology platforms, and enterprise governance forums. - Builds and leads a high-performing team and ecosystem. Attracts, develops, and leads talent with expertise across digital assets, product, strategy, and operations. Builds strong internal partnerships and manages key external relationships with infrastructure providers, custodians, technology partners, and other ecosystem participants as needed. - Develops strategic recommendations and presents to senior leadership. Prepares clear analysis, recommendations, and decision materials for senior executives and governance forums. Brings structured thinking, sound judgment, and strong executive presence to highly visible and often ambiguous issues. - Monitors the external environment and shapes Vanguard's response. Maintains strong awareness of digital asset market structure, tokenization trends, stablecoin developments, blockchain-enabled infrastructure, vendor capabilities, and emerging regulatory frameworks. Uses those insights to inform Vanguard's priorities, posture, and timing. - Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned. Qualifications: - Ten years of related work experience preferred, with significant leadership experience in brokerage, financial services, fintech, market infrastructure, payments, custody, or digital assets; experience spanning both strategy and execution strongly preferred. - Deep knowledge of digital assets and related infrastructure, including tokenization, stablecoins, wallets/custody models, settlement, blockchain-enabled operating models, and the broader digital asset ecosystem. - Strong understanding of regulated operating environments and the ability to navigate legal, compliance, risk, audit, and control requirements while still advancing innovation. - Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across product, technology, operations, and control functions, ideally in large matrixed organizations. - Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, including the ability to translate technical and regulatory complexity into clear business decisions, client implications, and strategic recommendations. - Demonstrated external credibility with clients, industry participants, regulators, or trade groups, with the ability to represent Vanguard thoughtfully and influence broader dialogue in the market. - Strong people leadership skills, with experience building teams, developing talent, and creating effective governance and operating rhythms. - Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred. - Relevant licenses, registrations, or certifications may be preferred or required based on final role design and responsibilities (e.g., Series 7, 63, 24). Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position. About Vanguard At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best. How We Work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

Role Description The Digital Marketing / Communications Manager is responsible for supporting the strategy, execution, and continuous optimization of digital marketing and communications programs across a diverse portfolio of platforms. This role plays a critical support function in delivering integrated internal and external communications strategies that align with business objectives and drive measurable impact. As a senior team member, this role provides project leadership, mentorship, and strategic guidance, ensuring operational excellence, scalability, and alignment across initiatives. The Lead combines advanced platform expertise, structured project management, and data-driven decision-making to deliver high-quality, impactful digital experiences. Key Responsibilities - Campaign Strategy, Ownership & Project Support: - Support the end-to-end planning, execution, and optimization of digital marketing campaigns across platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, CTV, and other DSPs. - Take full ownership of complex, multi-channel initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives. - Establish project timelines, workflows, and execution plans while proactively identifying risks and driving resolution. - Oversee campaign budgets, forecasting, pacing, and performance optimization to maximize ROI. - Ensure consistency, quality control, and adherence to best practices across all campaign deliverables. - Internal & External Communications: - Support the development and execution of internal communication strategies to effectively inform and engage employees. - Drive external digital communication initiatives that increase brand visibility, customer engagement, and revenue growth. - Serve as a key point of contact for communications strategy across cross-functional initiatives and campaigns. - Act as an advocate for organizational priorities, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and initiatives. - Mentorship & Team Development: - Provide ongoing mentorship and guidance to selected team members, supporting both technical skill development and customer-facing soft skills. - Lead by example in establishing best practices, improving workflows, and elevating overall team performance. - Support onboarding and training of new team members, helping to build team capability and consistency. - Performance Analysis & Reporting: - Analyze campaign performance and customer behavior to identify insights and inform optimization strategies. - Deliver clear, actionable reporting to leadership and stakeholders, translating data into business recommendations. - Drive continuous improvement through testing frameworks, measurement strategies, and performance reviews. - Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence: - Partner with Client Services, Sales, Product, Analytics, and Ad Operations teams to ensure seamless execution and alignment. - Facilitate collaboration across stakeholders to move projects forward and resolve dependencies. - Represent digital marketing in internal and external discussions, providing insights on performance, strategy, and industry trends. - Innovation & Continuous Improvement: - Identify opportunities to improve tools, processes, and campaign strategies to increase efficiency and effectiveness. - Contribute to innovation initiatives and recommend new digital tactics, platforms, and capabilities. - Stay current on industry trends and translate them into actionable improvements for the team and business. Qualifications - BS/BA degree and 6 years of experience, Master’s degree preferred with 4 years of experience, or Ph.D. with 1 year of experience, or 8 years of experience without a degree in digital marketing, communications, advertising, or a related field. - Demonstrated experience managing and supporting complex digital marketing campaigns or projects across multiple channels. - Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, and stakeholders simultaneously. - Advanced knowledge of digital advertising platforms (Google Ads, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, CTV, programmatic, etc.). - Proven ability to mentor or guide team members and contribute to team development. - Strong understanding of campaign lifecycle management, ad operations, and performance metrics. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint). - Willingness to travel up to 25% based on business or client needs. Requirements - Supporting cross-functional initiatives or programs from planning through execution. - Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence without direct authority. - Experience building or improving processes, workflows, or playbooks. - Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills. - Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into strategy. Benefits - Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $92,300.00 - $153,900.00. - The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations. - Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year. - Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. - Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

• Support the end-to-end planning, execution, and optimization of digital marketing campaigns across platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, CTV, and other DSPs • Take full ownership of complex, multi-channel initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives • Establish project timelines, workflows, and execution plans while proactively identifying risks and driving resolution • Oversee campaign budgets, forecasting, pacing, and performance optimization to maximize ROI • Ensure consistency, quality control, and adherence to best practices across all campaign deliverables • Support the development and execution of internal communication strategies to effectively inform and engage employees • Drive external digital communication initiatives that increase brand visibility, customer engagement, and revenue growth • Serve as a key point of contact for communications strategy across cross-functional initiatives and campaigns • Provide ongoing mentorship and guidance to selected team members, supporting both technical skill development and customer-facing soft skills • Analyze campaign performance and customer behavior to identify insights and inform optimization strategies • Partner with Client Services, Sales, Product, Analytics, and Ad Operations teams to ensure seamless execution and alignment • Identify opportunities to improve tools, processes, and campaign strategies to increase efficiency and effectiveness

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