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Head of Risk

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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

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