Principal - Accounting Platform

The posting, as BitGo wrote it

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com .

This role requires being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

If you have spent your career in SOX, internal controls, audit, controllership, or financial close, and you want to build the systems that fix what you find instead of only testing them, this role is for you.

Why this role exists

Every product BitGo ships eventually becomes a number: a balance, a fee, a statement, a journal entry, a regulatory filing. As a public company and a federally chartered trust bank, we have to prove those numbers are right every period, across many products, legal entities, and jurisdictions.

You will own the product strategy for the financial and accounting platform that makes those numbers right by construction, as we add products, entities, and asset types. You will turn accounting requirements into scalable, auditable, self-service platform capabilities that product, engineering, finance, and compliance can build on.

Digital assets make this harder, and more interesting, than it is at a traditional bank. On chain activity, custody structures, staking, tokenized assets, and settlement each move through our systems differently, and each has to land correctly on the books. The industry is still writing the playbook for much of this. You will help write it.

Level

We are hiring at Senior or Principal level, depending on experience. The core scope is the same at both. At Principal, you have already set platform strategy, led accounting systems, or established control standards that multiple teams adopted, and you will own the crossproduct standards and the working relationship with finance and audit leadership with more independence from day one.

Two paths to this role

There is more than one way to be great at this job. You may come from product management and built financial compliance platforms. You may come from audit, controllership, or accounting systems and have spent years finding where numbers break, and then built the thing that fixed it. We are just as interested in the second group. If you are an auditor or accountant with a builder mindset, you will be evaluated on the same scope and the same bar as a product manager. What matters is that you
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• A writing-first approach: your default artifacts are clear specs, data flow maps, and decision documents.

What will make you fail here

• Building bespoke solutions for each product or blockchain instead of platform capabilities that scale.
• Needing positional authority to get things done. Engineering, finance, and compliance sit on separate reporting lines, and you will coordinate across all three every day. You need to find ways to unblock yourself.
• Optimizing for process over outcomes. We have little patience for ceremony. Here, a control built into the product is an outcome; a new manual review step usually isn't.

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem-solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

• Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
• 100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
• Up to 4% 401k company match
• Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
• Free commuter/parking pass
• Free custom lunches and snacks
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• Great colleagues and an inspiring environment

Benefits may vary based on location.

Pay Transparency Notice

Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $230,000 and $260,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also part of this role’s package.

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.