2025 Digital Assets Strategy - Summer Internship Program

Requisition Number: 75530

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About This Position

The T. Rowe Price 10-week Summer Internship Program offers an opportunity to gain valuable work experience while building skills and long-term career potential. Through teamwork, innovative thinking, and application of your skills, you can add value and leave a lasting impact in a number of ways to our firm and the clients we support. You will have the opportunity to work with practitioners in the field who are experienced, forward-thinking, passionate people that will help you integrate what you learn in school with “real world” business initiatives.

Digital Assets Strategy:

Digital Assets Strategy (DAS) is responsible for developing and leading the implementation and execution of the firm’s digital assets strategy. DAS takes an asset-class view of the digital assets space and looks at the investment and operational implementations of the universe of cryptographic tokens, coins, protocols, and derivatives supported on blockchain technologies.

Role Summary 

• The goal of the internship is to develop the intern’s institutional investment skillset in the digital assets space, and for the intern to make a meaningful contribution to the development of T. Rowe Price’s evolving digital asset strategy 

Responsibilities

•  Interns will be assigned a two-part project: (1) catalogue and evaluate the leading investment frameworks for digital asset investing, and (2) analyze and assess the investment attractiveness of a leading blockchain mainnet or protocol
• This requires preparing an overview of the relevant blockchain sector (Layer 1s, Layer 2s, Oracles, etc.) as well as developing the broader investment case for the corresponding sub-sector within the ecosystem, and performing comparative analysis on competing mainnets or protocols
• The internship may also involve smaller blockchain / digital assets research related projects including quantitative analysis and related sector research to give broad exposure over the internship

Qualifications

Required: 

• Full time student pursuing a bachelor’s degree with an expected graduation date between May/June 2026 and May/June 2027
• Undergraduate GPA of 3.5 or higher

Preferred:

• Preferred major in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Applied Math or related fields with some quantitative training. 
• Strong foundational understanding of blockchain technology and protocols (this can be a result of academic coursework or being self-taught)
• Strong quantitative analysis skills
• Strong interest in digital asset markets and digital assets investing
• Ability to independently conduct research into crypto projects, protocols, market developments
• Strong academic background and intellectual curiosity

• Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently and with others
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written)

FINRA Requirements

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role. 

Work Flexibility

This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to one day per week from home, however, we will consider full-time telework for the right candidate.

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