Job description
Founding Practice Lead — Delphi Digital
Delphi Digital is hiring a Managing Director to build and lead a new Stablecoins, Payments & Fintech
advisory practice within our Research & Consulting business.
This is not a traditional business-development role. You will not inherit a finished product, a mature delivery team, or a predetermined sales playbook.
You will help determine:
Where Delphi should compete
Which clients and partners we should pursue
What services we should offer
How we win and deliver our first engagements
What intellectual property we need to build
How the practice should scale
You will operate like a founding partner inside a consulting firm, with meaningful ownership across strategy, revenue, client delivery, thought leadership, and team building.
The opportunity
Delphi has spent years building deep crypto-native expertise across:
Stablecoins and tokenization
Wallets, custody, and onboarding
Payment and settlement infrastructure
Liquidity and market fragmentation
User adoption and retention
Digital-asset market structure
Incentive and network design
Emerging financial infrastructure
We are now looking to bring that expertise to payments companies, fintechs, banks, investors, strategic acquirers, and advisory firms navigating the transition toward programmable money and onchain financial infrastructure.
Our goal is not to become a large implementation consultancy. We want to be the independent, opinionated strategic partner clients call when they need to determine:
What is real versus narrative
Where stablecoins create genuine commercial value
Where traditional payment rails remain superior
Whether to build, buy, or partner
Which markets, products, and infrastructure providers matter
Where the client has a credible right to win
What actions it should take next
What you will own
Build the practice
Validate the most attractive markets, customer segments, and buying triggers.
Define Delphi’s initial service offerings, positioning, and pricing.
Build the practice strategy, revenue model, and target-account plan.
Identify where Delphi has a differentiated right to win — and where we should not compete.
Originate and close business
Develop senior relationships across payments, fintech, banking, treasury, investment, and corporate strategy.
Personally originate and close complex advisory engagements.
Own discovery, qualification, scoping, pricing, proposals, negotiation, and account expansion.
Convert initial projects into repeat engagements and retained relationships.
Maintain rigorous pipeline, attribution, and forecasting discipline.
Build partner-led distribution
Develop relationships with firms that already have relevant client and transaction flow, including:
Investment banks and M&A advisers
PE and VC firms
Corporate-development teams
Consulting and strategic-advisory firms
Law and accounting firms
Position Delphi as their specialist partner for commercial diligence, market assessment, private research, expert advisory, and digital-asset strategy.
Productize Delphi’s expertise
Initial service areas may include:
Stablecoin and payments strategy
Commercial and market diligence
Private, opinionated research
Retained strategic advisory
Executive and board briefings
Expert advisory
You will turn Delphi’s expertise into clearly scoped and repeatable offerings rather than a collection of unrelated bespoke projects.
Lead initial client delivery
Personally lead the first anchor engagements.
Establish the quality bar for institutional advisory work.
Ensure our work is decision-oriented and difficult to replicate with generic consulting or AI-generated analysis.
Convert early engagements into reusable frameworks, diagnostics, and intellectual property.
Build a delivery model that can scale beyond your direct involvement.
Build authority and the team
Work closely with Delphi Research and Delphi Media on high-conviction stablecoin, payments, and fintech themes.
Publish or materially shape differentiated points of view.
Participate in executive briefings, podcasts, industry events, and closed-door roundtables.
Recruit and develop the delivery team as demand is proven.
Who you are
You bring significant experience across one or more of:
Payments and fintech
Banking or treasury technology
Financial infrastructure
Stablecoins and digital assets
Enterprise partnerships
Institutional advisory
You have:
A demonstrated record of personally originating and closing meaningful institutional business.
An active network across payments, fintech, banking, treasury, investment, or strategic advisory.
Credible fluency in both traditional payment economics and crypto-native infrastructure.
Experience selling complex, consultative engagements to senior decision-makers.
The ability to create commercial opportunities without an established playbook.
The judgment to explain where stablecoins create real value—and where they do not.
The ability to turn an ambiguous client question into a scoped and priced engagement.
Strong written, verbal, and executive communication skills.
The willingness to remain hands-on across selling, delivery, thought leadership, and team building.
You should be equally comfortable speaking with a skeptical CFO, pressure-testing a payments strategy, closing a complex advisory engagement, leading a client workstream, and developing an opinionated market thesis.
What success looks like
During your first year, you will:
Validate Delphi’s priority markets and customer segments.
Define and launch the initial service portfolio.
Build a high-quality direct and partner-led pipeline.
Win several anchor clients and productive channel relationships.
Establish a recognized Delphi point of view in stablecoins and payments.
Create repeatable Research-to-advisory and Media-to-advisory motions.
Build the foundation for a durable, multi-million-dollar practice
Over time, success means creating a practice with:
Repeatable offerings
Strong client references
Recurring and retained revenue
Healthy delivery economics
Distributed client ownership
A team and operating model that can scale beyond any one individual
Why join Delphi
This is an opportunity to build a new business using Delphi’s established crypto expertise, research
capabilities, market relationships, and brand.
The role offers substantial autonomy, direct influence over the practice’s strategy and team, and a highly competitive compensation package with significant performance-linked upside and meaningful long-term incentives.
We are looking for someone who wants to build a business — not simply occupy a role.
Location
United States-based candidates are preferred. Proximity to New York, Miami, or another major financial services and payments hub is helpful but not required for an exceptional candidate.
Regular travel for clients, partners, industry events, and internal collaboration should be expected.
Express interest
Please share your résumé or LinkedIn profile along with a short note covering:
Two or three significant engagements or partnerships you personally originated and closed.
The first five companies or channel partners you would approach.
One stablecoin or payments use case you believe the market currently overestimates.
Why you believe Delphi has a right to win in this market.
Why you want to build a practice rather than simply occupy a role.
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.