Head of Risk
Ondo helps institutions and individuals access traditional financial assets on blockchain through tokenized US Treasuries and investment products.
Projects
About Ondo
Ondo brings traditional financial assets onchain through institutional-grade platforms and infrastructure. The protocol offers tokenized US Treasuries and investment products with daily yield distributions, while developing Ondo Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain optimized for real-world assets. Products include USDY for non-US investors and OUSG for qualified purchasers, supported by regulated custodians and audited smart contracts.
Skills
About the Role
You will build and own the end-to-end risk function across products, protocols, and the balance sheet. You will define, measure, govern, and mitigate smart-contract, market, liquidity, collateral, and counterparty risks. You will set risk parameters, evaluate protocol designs, build real-time monitoring and reporting, lead stress testing, and establish governance and escalation processes. You will advise on capital allocation, liquidity, growth, and risk tolerance.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in risk management, trading, or related quantitative roles across traditional finance and crypto
- Deep understanding of equities, derivatives including perpetual futures, crypto markets, collateralized lending, and exchange mechanics across CeFi and DeFi
- Proficiency with quantitative tooling for risk modeling and simulation
- Strong familiarity with smart contract systems and DeFi risk vectors
- Experience managing margining, liquidation engines, auto-deleveraging, and liquidity controls
- Ability to operate at strategic and highly technical levels
- Ability to model and evaluate market, liquidity, credit, and counterparty risk
- Track record of owning risk decisions in high-stakes environments with material capital at risk
Responsibilities
- Define and implement an enterprise risk management framework across protocol, financial, and operational domains
- Own risk parameterization for collateral requirements, leverage limits, liquidation thresholds, and liquidity buffers
- Evaluate smart contract architectures and protocol designs for vulnerabilities and systemic risks
- Design and enforce risk controls for treasury management, stablecoin exposure, and onchain liquidity
- Assess and manage counterparty due diligence across exchanges, market makers, custodians, and partners
- Embed risk considerations throughout the development lifecycle with engineering and product teams
- Architect monitoring systems and dashboards for real-time exposure tracking and risk alerts
- Lead scenario analysis and stress testing across market conditions, liquidity shocks, and protocol failures
- Establish governance and escalation processes for risk decisions
- Advise leadership on growth, capital efficiency, and risk tolerance tradeoffs
Benefits
- Future token rights and/or equity
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Remote-first work
