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Vanguard has opened a search for its first head of digital assets, a senior role that will guide how the firm approaches cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The move marks a change for a company that spent years as one of the sector’s loudest doubters.
The positionsits inside Vanguard Personal Wealth, according to a job posting listed the week of July 6. The person hired will build the firm’s digital asset strategy for personal wealth clients and lead the work needed to carry it out.
The posting describes the hire as a senior subject matter expert who will design a full strategy from start to finish. That person will advise top leadership on shifts in digital asset markets and help set the firm’s long-term direction.
The role also reaches beyond the company. The executive will represent Vanguard with regulators and industry groups, and the posting says they will help shape what it calls market standards.
Vanguard wants the hire to study several parts of the digital asset space. These include tokenization, stablecoins, digital wallets, custody, and blockchain-based settlement.
The executive will also weigh how the firm should move. That means deciding whether Vanguard builds these tools on its own, works with outside partners, or holds off on entering certain markets. Vanguard said it managed about $12 trillion in assets at the end of 2025, though one account placed the current figure near $10 trillion.
From Skeptic to Cautious Participant
For years Vanguard stayed out of crypto while rivals moved in. BlackRock, Fidelity, and Franklin Templeton each launched spot <a href="https://xpertsstudio.com/bitcoin-just-punched-through-80000-triggered-liquidations/” title=”Bitcoin Just Punched Through $80,000, Triggered Liquidations”>Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, while Vanguard held back. The firm once called Bitcoin (BTC) an immature asset class that did not suit long-term investors.
That stance began to ease in December 2025, when Vanguard let brokerage clients trade cryptocurrency ETFs and mutual funds. The company still said it had no plans to issue its own crypto products, arguing they clashed with its investment approach.
CEO Salim Ramji has echoed that position. Ramji joined Vanguard from BlackRock in July 2024 after leading its iShares business, which launched the iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT). Speaking to Barron’s before he became CEO, he said the decision not to offer a Bitcoin ETF fit the firm’s philosophy and stressed that companies should stay consistent in what they offer.
The new posting does not point to a product launch soon. It does, however, widen Vanguard’s focus past simply giving clients access to outside funds, since the hire will build a multi-year plan, set up risk and governance rules, and study how digital assets could fit within its wealth management business.
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