APAC Trading Risk Leader - Strategy & Risk Operations

Bybit Limited; Dubai; Remote; AED 918,105 - 1,542,416; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study Growth Fund

Internal Events

Global Collaboration

Career Advancement

Internal Mobility

Job summary

Bybit Limited is seeking a senior leader to head the newly formed Trading Risk team. This role owns end-to-end business risk operations across Spot, Derivatives, and Lending products, reporting to senior leadership, and ensuring risk thinking informs product development.

You will define risk parameters, build scalable alert and monitoring systems, lead post-mortems, and collaborate with Engineering to maintain robust risk controls.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in risk management within financial services, fintech, or crypto/digital assets.
• 3+ years in a leadership role managing risk teams (team size 5+).
• Deep understanding of derivatives risk across futures, options, CFD/Perps.
• Experience with multi-product risk management across at least 3 products.
• Strong quantitative background to design and validate risk models and parameters.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Trading Risk team, setting the strategic vision for business risk management across the organization.
• Own risk operations and logic design across spot trading, derivatives, and lending products.
• Design and maintain risk control frameworks, alert systems, and escalation protocols.
• Oversee real-time risk monitoring systems and incident response procedures.
• Collaborate with Engineering/Tech to ensure robust, scalable risk controls.

Skills

Risk management

Leadership

Derivatives risk

Quantitative analysis

Python/C++

English fluency

Mandarin preferred

Education

MSc/PhD in quantitative finance/related field

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

Bybit Limited is seeking a senior leader to head the newly formed Trading Risk team. This role owns end-to-end business risk operations across Spot, Derivatives, and Lending products, reporting to senior leadership, and ensuring risk thinking informs product development.

You will define risk parameters, build scalable alert and monitoring systems, lead post-mortems, and collaborate with Engineering to maintain robust risk controls.