European Sales Director, Digital Transfer Agency

About ZILO

ZILO is transforming the infrastructure that powers global asset and wealth management.

Our cloud-native Transfer Agency platform enables financial institutions to modernise investor servicing, fund operations and digital asset infrastructure. As the industry evolves towards tokenised funds and digitally native assets, ZILO provides the operational foundation connecting traditional investment operations with next-generation capital markets.

Following continued growth and a strategic partnership with Ripple, ZILO is expanding across European markets. This is an opportunity to become a pivotal hire in this expansion and help to cement ZILO as a market leader in Digital Transfer Agency.

Role Purpose

Primary commercial focus: Driving the adoption of ZILO’s Digital Transfer Agency platform across European financial services and digital capital markets ecosystem. 

As Sales Director - Digital Transfer Agency, you will lead ZILO's commercial expansion across Europe, with primary responsibility for promoting and driving adoption of ZILO's Digital Transfer Agency offering.

Reporting directly to the Chief Revenue Officer, you will introduce ZILO's proposition to asset managers, fund administrators, custodians, wealth platforms and digital capital markets participants.

This is a strategic, market-building role for an experienced enterprise sales professional who can identify opportunities, develop executive relationships, influence industry conversations and secure transformational technology partnerships. You will play a key role in shaping our growth strategy, building on our previous successes and future commercial operations.

Areas of focus:

Commercial Growth

• Develop and contribute to ZILO's go-to-market strategy for Digital Transfer Agency.
• Build and maintain a high-quality pipeline of enterprise opportunities.
• Lead complex sales engagements from initial qualification through to contract execution.
• Deliver against ambitious revenue and growth targets.

Business Development

• Develop relationships with senior decision-makers across asset managers, alternative investment managers, fund administrators, custodians, wealth platforms, digital asset infrastructure providers and market infrastructure organisations.
• Identify new market opportunities and strategic client engagements.
• Build executive-level relationships with business, operations and technology leaders.

Market Development

• Represent ZILO at industry conferences, client events and executive forums.
• Position ZILO as a trusted partner in the evolution of digital transfer agency.
• Build relationships across the broader digital asset and tokenisation ecosystem.
• Contribute to thought-leadership initiatives that support market awareness.

Strategic Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Marketing and Delivery teams to ensure market feedback informs product development and commercial messaging.
• Develop strategic partnerships that accelerate market adoption.
• Gather commercial insight into European market trends, competitive positioning and customer requirements.

Requirements

Essential Experience

• Significant experience in enterprise sales, business development or strategic account management within financial services technology.
• Proven success selling complex software or platform solutions to Tier 1 financial institutions.
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
• Demonstrated ability to build executive relationships with C-suite and senior operational leaders.
• Track record of consistently delivering against commercial targets.
• A requirement of this role is an established network of senior contacts across core European asset management, transfer agency and capital markets industry that can be leveraged from day one.

Industry Knowledge

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Transfer Agency, asset servicing or fund administration
• Securities services or capital markets infrastructure
• Asset management or wealth platform technology
• Digital assets or tokenisation
• An understanding of digital capital markets, tokenised investment products and next-generation financial market infrastructure would be highly advantageous.

Personal Attributes

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building new markets.
• Commercially driven and results-oriented.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation abilities.
• Comfortable operating independently while collaborating across global teams.
• Willingness to travel extensively across Europe as required.

Benefits

• Enhanced leave - 38 days inclusive of 8 UK Public Holidays  
• Private Health Care including family cover  
• Life Assurance – 5x salary  
• Employee Assistance Program  
• Company Pension (Salary Sacrifice options available)
• Access to training and development  
• Buy and Sell holiday scheme 
• The opportunity for “work from anywhere/global mobility”