Head of Risk
Skills
About the Role
You will design, implement, and own a firm-wide risk function covering smart contracts, trading, collateral, and counterparties. You will build ERM frameworks, calibrate risk parameters, and embed risk-aware design into products. You will develop real-time monitoring and dashboards, run scenario analyses and stress tests, and advise leadership on capital allocation and liquidity decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in risk management, trading, or related quantitative roles spanning traditional finance and crypto
- Deep understanding of equities markets, derivatives including perpetual futures, crypto markets, collateralized lending, and exchange mechanics
- Proficiency with quantitative tooling for risk modeling and simulation
- Strong familiarity with smart contract systems and common DeFi risk vectors
- Experience defining and managing margining, liquidation engines, auto-deleveraging, and liquidity controls
- Ability to operate at both strategic and highly technical levels
- Strong quantitative intuition for modeling market, liquidity, credit, and counterparty risk
- Proven track record of owning risk decisions in high-stakes, fast-moving environments with material capital at risk
Responsibilities
- Define and implement a holistic Enterprise Risk Management framework
- Own risk parameterization including collateral requirements, leverage limits, and liquidation thresholds
- Evaluate smart contract architectures and protocol designs for vulnerabilities and systemic risk
- Design and enforce risk controls for treasury management, stablecoin exposure, and onchain liquidity
- Assess and manage due diligence for counterparty risk across exchanges, market makers, and custodians
- Partner with engineering and product to embed risk into the development lifecycle
- Architect monitoring systems and dashboards to track real-time exposures and trigger alerts
- Lead scenario analysis and stress testing across market, liquidity, and protocol failure conditions
- Establish governance processes and escalation frameworks for risk decisions
- Advise leadership on tradeoffs between growth, capital efficiency, and risk tolerance
Benefits
- Full benefits including medical, vision, and dental
- Flexible vacation policy (PTO)
- Remote-first work option
- Equity
- Future token rights