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Head of Custody, Malta
Guesser (Acq. Gemini)
sliema, malta
Posted on Aug 5, 2025
About the Company
Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all — bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure.
The Department: International Leadership
The Role: Head of Custody
The Head of Custody will serve as the holder and lead our custody operations under the Malta MiCA CASP licence. This is a mission-critical leadership role responsible for ensuring the safekeeping of client assets, robust risk and control frameworks, and ongoing compliance with European and Maltese regulatory obligations. You will work cross-functionally with product, legal, compliance, and security teams to ensure our custody infrastructure remains world-class as we expand across Europe.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the Head of Custody for Gemini’s operations in Malta and the EU, , accountable for custody operations and regulatory compliance.
- Oversee all elements of digital asset custody including wallet architecture , key management, and transaction workflows.
- Implement governance and internal control frameworks aligned with MiCA and MFSA standards.
- Lead regulatory reporting and ensure traceability and segregation of client assets.
- Develop and maintain custody-related business continuity and incident response protocols, ensuring operational resilience in line with DORA.
- Continuously assess custody risks and introduce mitigations to maintain high security and reliability.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Product, Risk, Wallet Operations and Security teams to ensure strategic alignment of custody operations.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert in custody across cross-functional initiatives including product launches (e.g., staking, tokenized assets, institutional settlement).
- Represent Gemini’s custody capabilities in institutional onboarding, product design, and sales enablement.
- Monitor the evolving custody regulatory landscape to maintain compliance and innovation leadership.
- Maintain and update custody SOPs, service level frameworks, and internal documentation.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years in financial operations, custody, or risk management, with 3+ years specifically in digital asset custody.
- Proven experience operating under regulatory frameworks such as MiFID or MiCA.
- Deep technical understanding of custody technologies: MPC, HSMs, cold storage, wallet security.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with stakeholder and regulator engagement experience.
- Demonstrated success in high-growth, regulated environments with strong problem-solving skills.
- Experience interacting with EU regulators (e.g., MFSA) or holding a PQ role.
- Knowledge of DLT/blockchain infrastructure and staking or settlement mechanics.
- Leadership experience in institutional custody operations.
- Familiarity with regulatory reporting, operational due diligence, and audit readiness.
In Malta, we have a hybrid work policy. Employees are expected to work from the office part of the week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. We believe our hybrid approach increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.
At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.