Head of Risk
Keyrock is a crypto market maker providing algorithmic liquidity, OTC trading, derivatives, and asset management services to institutions across centralized and decentralized venues.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Keyrock
Keyrock provides institutional digital asset trading services through proprietary algorithmic technology deployed across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Users can access market making, over-the-counter block trades, options structures for hedging and yield, and managed fund strategies. The firm operates across multiple regulated jurisdictions including Belgium, the UK, Switzerland, France, and the US.
Skills
About the Role
You will own and develop the risk function end-to-end. You will design, implement, and enforce a firm-wide quantitative risk framework; co-design risk architecture, data, analytics, and real-time aggregation with the COO and CIO; and oversee risk across trading, treasury, and investments in CeFi and DeFi environments.
Requirements
- Strong quantitative risk-management expertise in market, credit, and liquidity risk modelling
- Ability to design and implement risk models, tail-risk estimation, scenario analysis, stress testing, and dependence modelling
- Experience designing or co-designing firm-wide risk systems with technology and operations stakeholders
- Experience across traditional financial markets and digital assets, including CeFi and/or DeFi
- Knowledge of exchange and custodian risk, smart-contract risk, protocol risk, funding and basis dynamics, and collateral management
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework covering market, credit, liquidity, and systemic risk
- Co-design and implement a firm-wide risk management system with data architecture, risk aggregation, real-time monitoring, and reporting
- Build an integrated risk view across centralized and decentralized venues
- Define and implement advanced risk metrics, including VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress scenarios, liquidity-adjusted risk, and concentration risk
- Oversee risk across spot and derivatives trading, treasury, and investments
- Define risk appetite and enforce disciplined risk-taking across the organization
Benefits
- Global benefit package
- Annual team retreats
- Semi-flexible working hours