Head of Risk
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.
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
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
Benefits
- Future token rights and/or equity
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Remote-first work