Finance District Lead

About us First Digital is a digital asset focused trust, custody, financial technology company at the vanguard of the emerging digitalization of assets, where the full value for your worldly assets can finally unite like other digital data. Our best-in-class custodian and near-banking layer enables previously unattainable options for payments, asset management and access to products that can help enhance financial inclusion. Our infrastructure – including FDUSD, Asia’s 1 st home grown blockchain-based USD stable-coin – Developed to help economies, institutions and developers gain access to technology breakthroughs and capitalize on the digital evolution of finance, trust, and technology. About First Digital and Finance District First Digital is a Hong Kong-headquartered fintech and digital assets group, increasingly focused on the emerging AI and agentic economy. Our businesses include digital asset custody and trust services through First Digital Trust Limited, the FDUSD stablecoin issued by First Digital Labs, and Finance District — our Web3-native financial ecosystem at fd.xyz. Finance District is a comprehensive on-chain financial ecosystem powered by FDUSD and governed by FDFI. Its products include Prism (the agentic payments backend), Agent Wallet, District Pass, the FDFI token, and Kredible. With over $2 trillion in cumulative transaction volume across the broader FDUSD network and integration across six major blockchains, Finance District sits at the intersection of stablecoin infrastructure, AI agents, and the next-generation digital economy. Role Purpose The Finance District Lead owns the Finance District vertical end to end. You are the commercial, strategic, and operational leader for the business — accountable for moving Finance District from investment phase to a sustainable profit centre, while building a category-defining brand in agentic payments and the on-chain economy. You will own the P&L, set the strategy, build the team, represent Finance District publicly, and drive cross-functional execution across product, growth, partnerships, token, and community. Key Responsibilities Strategy and P&L Own the Finance District P&L; develop and maintain the business case, budget, and unit economics Set the strategic roadmap across the four Finance District pillars: Growth, Ecosystem Partnerships, Token and Community, and Product Make commercial decisions on pricing, market priorities, exchange listings strategy, and capital allocation Report on Finance District performance to the executive team on a regular cadence Team and Cross-Functional Leadership Directly lead the Finance District team, including the Growth, Ecosystem Partnerships, and Token and Community functions Influence and coordinate group shared services across product, engineering, legal, compliance, marketing, operations, and finance Build, retain, and develop a high-performing team that can operate at the frontier of crypto, fintech, and AI Token Program Execute the FDFI token program against the direction set by the FDFI token committee Carry strategic exchange relationships and represent Finance District in tokenomics discussions Coordinate day-to-day token operations with the Token and Community Lead, who runs the program External Representation Act as the public face of Finance District at industry conferences, panels, podcasts, X, and on builder and foundation forums Build relationships with major exchanges, blockchain foundations, ecosystem partners, investors, and regulators <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":270,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","4697778