Head of Trading Risk Engine, Crypto Perpetuals Prop Firm, Dubai or Remote

Emerald Zebra - Recruitment & Executive Search; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 800,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work considered

Job summary

Emerald Zebra - Recruitment & Executive Search seeks a hands-on Head of Trading Risk Engine in Dubai, with exceptional remote candidates considered. You will own risk rules, exposure hedging and payout economics for a crypto-perpetuals prop firm expanding from trading infrastructure into retail trading.

Lead live-exposure decisions, quantify risk, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to enable ambitious products through pricing and controls.

Qualifications

• Five-plus years in trading risk, dealing or similar; live-exposure ownership matters more than tenure.
• Experience in funded trading, retail FX/CFDs, crypto derivatives, prop trading or market-making.
• Knowledge of perpetuals, leverage, margin, liquidation, funding, microstructure, and hedging.

Responsibilities

• Own trading book risk appetite and exposure by instrument, strategy, cohort and correlated group.
• Manage funded-account rules, payout reviews, liability forecasts and reserves.
• Classify profitable, toxic, fraudulent, coordinated, and correlated traders.
• Decide to simulate, internalise, match or hedge; manage venue relationships and market-makers.
• Oversee margin, liquidation circuits, breakers, monitoring, incident response and future risk/dealing team.

Skills

Trading risk management

Live-exposure ownership

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance/related field

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Head of Trading Risk Engine Location: Dubai preferred; exceptional remote candidates considered

The Role

Our client is expanding from trading infrastructure into retail trading through its retail trading product which processes about $1B monthly. Backed by $17M from Lightspeed Coinbase and angels including Mark Cuban they are launching a crypto-perpetuals prop firm.

We need a hands-on leader to build and run its risk engine owning rules exposure hedging and payout economics. You will make live decisions analyse data and build systems with Product and Engineering.

This is not compliance or advisory. Quantify real risk and enable ambitious products through pricing precise limits monitoring segmentation routing hedging and staged rollouts. Use broad bans only for unmeasurable uncontrollable risks.

What You Will Own

• Trading book risk appetite and exposure by instrument strategy cohort and correlated group
• Funded-account rules payout reviews liability forecasts and reserves
• Classification of profitable toxic fraudulent coordinated and correlated traders
• Decisions to simulate internalise match or hedge; plus venue liquidity-provider and market-maker relationships
• Margin liquidation circuit breakers kill switches monitoring incident response reporting and the future risk/dealing team

Trading Execution and Product

• Build A/B/hybrid routing; decide when exposure remains internal or is hedged
• Measure shadow P&L after fees funding spreads slippage and execution costs
• Set leverage margin instruments spreads mark-ups and trading conditions
• Monitor execution fills rejections pricing anomalies market gaps and incidents
• Detect toxic flow latency arbitrage copy/coordinated trading multi-account abuse and payout exploitation; lead responses to volatility failures and concentrated exposure

For every product change explain effects on behaviour payouts and unit economics; available pricing limits monitoring routing or hedging; the launch approach; and evidence to expand change or stop.

Ideal Background

• Five-plus years in trading risk dealing or similar preferred; live-exposure ownership matters more than tenure
• Experience in funded trading retail FX/CFDs crypto derivatives prop trading or market-making
• Knowledge of perpetuals leverage margin liquidation funding microstructure A/B-book management hedging routing and liquidity providers
• Analyse behaviour and abuse with SQL/Python then translate risk logic into product and engineering requirements
• Commercial inventive and decisive under volatility; protects legitimate payouts and profitability without blanket restrictions

Not Suitable If

Your background is mainly compliance audit policy or documentation; you have not owned live exposure or execution; you prefer frameworks to operations; cannot work with data engineers and imperfect systems; or avoid time-sensitive book decisions.