Director of Risk
The Open Platform builds infrastructure and consumer applications on the TON Blockchain to drive crypto adoption through Telegram. It provides SDKs, APIs, wallets, and other Web3 tools for builders, while supporting companies in the Telegram and TON ecosystem through TOP Labs.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About The Open Platform
The Open Platform develops TON Blockchain infrastructure and consumer applications for Telegram’s global user base. Its products include TON API, TAC for deploying EVM smart contracts on TON, STON.fi swap infrastructure, PlayDeck gaming tools, Getgems, and Wallet in Telegram. The organization serves Web3 developers, crypto users, and companies building products for the Telegram and TON ecosystem, and operates TOP Labs as a venture-building platform.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will hold statutory accountability for risk management, capital management, prudential disclosures, cybersecurity policy, and incident response in Brazil. You will establish governance frameworks, oversee financial and operational risks, challenge material decisions, maintain regulatory reporting, and provide risk, capital, and cybersecurity reporting to the Board and Group leadership.
Requirements
- Residence in Brazil and eligibility to accept appointment as a statutory director or administrator
- Ability to satisfy BCB fit-and-proper, reputation, and technical-capacity requirements
- Senior experience in a bank, payment institution, regulated fintech, crypto company, or comparable regulated financial business
- Strong risk, capital, prudential-regulation, or regulatory-reporting experience
- Cybersecurity-governance and incident-response capability
- Knowledge of Brazilian financial regulation and BCB expectations
- Fluent Portuguese and working English
- Independent judgment and ability to challenge senior business and technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Act as the statutory director responsible for risk management, capital management, prudential disclosures, cybersecurity policy, and incident response
- Establish and maintain the risk-management framework, including risk appetite, limits, policies, registers, KRIs, escalation thresholds, and remediation processes
- Oversee financial and non-financial risks, including operational, liquidity, market, credit, counterparty, technology, custody, third-party, and cybersecurity risks
- Assess material risks from new products, partners, outsourcing arrangements, and operating-model changes
- Ensure required regulatory capital and capital buffers are maintained and oversee capital planning, capital adequacy, PR/RWA, liquidity, stress testing, and contingency measures
- Oversee prudential reporting and disclosures, including DLI, DRL, and Pillar 3 processes
- Own and maintain local cybersecurity policy, action plans, and incident-response plans
- Ensure material security and operational incidents are identified, escalated, investigated, documented, remediated, and reported
- Oversee business-continuity and disaster-recovery testing
- Provide regular risk, capital, and cybersecurity reporting to the Board and Group leadership
- Support BCB information requests, supervisory reviews, and inspections
- Coordinate with internal functions, auditors, and external advisers
Benefits
- Remote setup with access to hubs in Dubai, Yerevan, London, and Belgrade
- Medical-expense compensation
- Necessary equipment
- Access to advanced AI models via mira.tg
- 20 working days of paid vacation annually
- 11 days off per year
- 14 days of paid sick leave