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Director of Risk Management

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You will build and lead the risk function across market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, operational, and protocol risks. You will establish governance, develop risk models, assess new products and counterparties, monitor exposures, negotiate risk terms, and design controls for digital and traditional financial activity.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own the risk framework, including risk appetite, exposure limits, liquidity buckets, collateral haircuts, margin triggers, and escalation procedures
  • Take risk policies and limits through board approval and report to the board and investment committee
  • Provide independent risk sign-off for new strategies, products, venues, and counterparties
  • Build risk models and analytics, including VaR, scenario analysis, and stress testing
  • Stress-test portfolios against BTC shocks, liquidity crises, counterparty failures, depeg events, protocol exploits, and liquidation cascades
  • Evaluate complex lending, repo, basis, derivatives, and structured-product transactions
  • Monitor positions and exposures daily and flag deviations from limits or assumptions
  • Lead counterparty, venue, and protocol due diligence
  • Set and monitor counterparty limits, collateral eligibility, and margin terms
  • Review and negotiate risk terms in fund, OTC, and bilateral documentation
  • Design operational risk controls across trade lifecycle, settlement, reconciliation, custody, and treasury
  • Work with compliance, legal, fund administration, and auditors on regulatory obligations, audits, and reporting
  • Support new products from idea through launch

Requirements

  • Postgraduate degree in Finance, Computer Science, or Mathematical Finance
  • Professional finance or risk qualification such as CFA, FRM, PRM, or equivalent
  • 10+ years of risk-management experience, including several years leading a risk function
  • Capital, asset, and risk-management experience across BTC, digital assets, traditional finance, and DeFi protocol risk
  • Financial modelling and risk-analysis skills, including stress testing, scenario analysis, and VaR
  • Python, R, or SQL
  • Experience designing operational risk controls for OTC, bilateral, and exchange-traded activity
  • Experience reviewing and negotiating fund, OTC, and bilateral risk terms
  • Fund regulatory and compliance experience
  • Leadership experience
  • Ability to explain complex risk to boards, investors, and regulators

Benefits

  • Remote work from Europe and Latin America
  • Access to global coworking spaces
  • Paid vacation
  • Paid sick leave
  • Access to training programs
  • Language courses
  • Annual learning sponsorship

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