Director Enterprise Risk Management
Bakkt is a digital asset platform providing stablecoin settlement, programmable payments, and financial infrastructure services for banks, fintechs, and payments providers.
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About Bakkt
Bakkt provides digital asset services for financial institutions, fintechs, and payments providers, with capabilities spanning stablecoin settlement, programmable payments, and loyalty solutions. Users can access custody, trading, and onramp tools through the platform. The company operates as a financial infrastructure provider focused on banking and payments applications.
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About the Role
You will operate as a hands-on, one-person enterprise risk management function, owning the full risk lifecycle from investigation and assessment through remediation and reporting. You will build risk frameworks and registers, validate controls, assess digital-asset risks, improve monitoring with AI and automation, and translate complex risk scenarios for leadership, the Board, and regulators.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Law, or a related field
- 7–10 years of hands-on experience in enterprise risk management, internal audit, or compliance
- Experience designing risk frameworks and performing risk assessments
- Experience with Second Line monitoring and challenge activities
- Understanding of crypto, blockchain, digital assets, custody models, Layer 1 and Layer 2 architectures, DeFi, and stablecoins
- Experience in a regulated financial, banking, or digital-asset environment
- Knowledge of counterparty, market, liquidity, and operational risk
- Experience with AI tools, agentic workflows, or automation is preferred
- Change-management experience
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design and improve the Enterprise Risk Management framework, taxonomy, registers, and appetite statements
- Direct risk mitigation and operational improvement initiatives
- Validate First Line controls addressing risks, audit findings, and compliance gaps
- Maintain risk policies, standards, and procedures
- Assess and monitor institutional partners, custodians, market makers, and liquidity providers
- Support market, liquidity, and operational risk initiatives
- Review risk for new products, token listings, and partner integrations
- Conduct enterprise-wide financial, operational, strategic, technological, and crypto-specific risk assessments
- Monitor emerging regulatory, market, technology, and cyber risks
- Oversee remediation of audit findings, regulatory observations, and self-identified issues
- Track remediation progress and report to leadership and the Board Risk Committee
- Lead ERM transformation change management
- Use AI and agentic workflows to scale risk activities
- Identify and operationalize risk-monitoring tools and automations
- Prepare risk reporting and executive materials
- Translate complex risk scenarios into actionable insights
