Head of Trading Risk Engine – Remote

Emerald Zebra - Recruitment & Executive Search; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerald Zebra - Recruitment & Executive Search seeks a hands-on Head of Trading Risk Engine in Dubai to build and run the risk engine, owning rules, exposure, hedging and payout economics for a crypto-perpetuals platform.

You will make live risk decisions, analyze data with Product and Engineering, and drive pricing, limits, monitoring and staged rollouts. Dubai preferred; exceptional remote candidates considered.

Qualifications

• Five-plus years in trading risk, dealing or similar preferred.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own trading book, risk appetite and exposure by instrument, strategy, cohort and correlated group.
• Define funded-account rules, payout reviews, liability forecasts and reserves.
• Classify profitable, toxic, fraudulent, coordinated and correlated traders.
• Decide on simulation, internalise, match or hedge; manage venue, liquidity-provider and market‑maker relationships.
• Margin, liquidation, circuit breakers, kill switches, monitoring, incident response and reporting.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative analysis

Leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

SQL

Python

Pricing models

Job description

Emerald Zebra - Recruitment & Executive Search seeks a hands-on Head of Trading Risk Engine in Dubai to build and run the risk engine, owning rules, exposure, hedging and payout economics for a crypto-perpetuals platform.

You will make live risk decisions, analyze data with Product and Engineering, and drive pricing, limits, monitoring and staged rollouts. Dubai preferred; exceptional remote candidates considered.