Digital Assets Principal Director

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Management Consulting professionals design and implement transformation programs that integrate strategy, technology, and operations to create enterprise value for clients. Accenture is growing our practice to help our clients navigate their transformational journeys. The Banking & Capital Markets Digital Assets Principal Director will be focused on supporting the development of our offerings and the delivery of consulting projects.

Responsibilities may include: 

• Industry experience within digital asset adoption, ecosystem, and regulation across financial services verticals and use cases.
• Act as a thought partner to Accenture and client senior leadership on digital transformation strategies and system investments
• Own thought leadership efforts across Digital assets
• Demonstrated business and technology expertise with stablecoins, tokenized deposits, tokenized securities or cryptocurrency (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, Solana).
• Support digital assets transformation programs – including strategy development, operating model changes, and technology implementations.
• Selecting, defining, implementing or operating digital asset custody solutions or custody models (qualified custody, sub-custody).
• Assessing digital asset use cases within regulated financial institutions, mapping them to tangible business value.
• Selecting, implementing or operating digital-asset financial-crime ecosystem solutions (transaction monitoring, onboarding, investigations).
• Evaluation of differences and tradeoffs among blockchains for regulated financial services use cases.
• Manage all parts of projects, from client buy-in to planning, budgeting, and execution.
• Support development of our next generation digital assets technology offerings.
• Build your reputation as an industry thought leader and become a trusted advisor for C-suite clients looking to solve critical business problem.
• Drive business development to originate new client opportunities.
• Opportunity to be a thought leader in a growing focus area

Travel, as required, up to 80%.

Here’s What You Need:

• Minimum of 12 years relevant professional services firm experience in technology or management consulting with broad experience in engagement management and business development
• Minimum of 8 years of digital assets experience leading financial services client engagements or workstreams within or across banking (incl. payments) and capital markets
• A bachelor’s degree 

Bonus Points if you have:

• Developed and managed relationships with C-suite client executives.

• Extensive transformation strategy or operating model design experience in digital assets within banking and capital markets.
• Built next generation analytic capabilities (e.g., AI, GenAI, data models) for digital assets withing banking and capital markets.
• Selecting, implementing or operating digital-asset financial-crime ecosystem solutions (transaction monitoring, onboarding, investigations)
• Structured problem solving and ability to simplify complex initiatives to improve execution.
• Advanced degree or financial industry certification.

Professional Skills 

• Proven ability to operate within a collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated commitment, teamwork, and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian.
• Demonstrated pattern of self-initiated skill and knowledge development.
• Ability to structure problem statements and analysis approach in an executable manner.
• Ability to communicate with senior executives, producing polished, clear recommendations and narratives.
• Structured problem solving and ability to simplify complex initiatives to improve execution.
• Manage engagements or workstreams across quality and financial dimensions.
• High energy level, focus and ability to work well in demanding client environments.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Strong leadership, problem solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Unquestionable professional integrity, credibility, and character.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 11/09/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

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Colorado $163,000 to $375,000
Connecticut $163,000 to $375,000
District of Columbia $173,500 to $399,300
Illinois $150,900 to $375,000
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Minnesota $163,000 to $375,000
New York $150,900 to $434,000
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Virginia $150,900 to $399,300
Washington $173,500 to $399,300

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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