Senior Risk Officer - Crypto Risk & Derivatives Leader

Sponsor Finder; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office 4 days/week

Work from Anywhere up to 20 days/year

ClassPass

Unlimited vacation

Apple equipment

Flexible work culture

Equity

Job summary

Blockchain.com is seeking a Senior Risk Officer to design, implement, and oversee risk management across all business lines, with a focus on regulated derivatives. You will work with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations to strengthen risk posture as the company scales globally.

You will report into the Risk function and address market, credit, liquidity, operational, and technology risks, ensuring controls meet regulatory expectations across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years risk management experience at a financial institution, broker-dealer, futures firm, exchange, or similar regulated entity.
• Strong working knowledge of core risk disciplines—market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk—and how they apply in practice.
• Experience building, implementing, or enhancing a risk management program or framework.

Responsibilities

• Help design, implement, and administer risk management frameworks, policies, and controls across the company's business lines.
• Identify, measure, monitor, and report on key risk categories, including market, credit, liquidity, operational, technology, legal, and counterparty risk.
• Establish and maintain risk tolerance limits, monitor for breaches, and elevate issues to senior management and governance committees as needed.
• Support the risk management program for the firm's regulated derivatives entities, covering areas such as customer fund segregation, margin and collateral adequacy, capital risk, and settlement risk.
• Partner with the business’s compliance function and regulatory counsel to ensure risk controls meet applicable regulatory expectations across the jurisdictions in which the firm operates.
• Help oversee risk related to digital asset collateral, including valuation, haircuts, custody arrangements, and liquidation triggers.
• Prepare and deliver regular risk exposure reporting to senior management, risk committees, and, where applicable, regulators and self-regulatory organizations.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to assess and manage risk as new products and features are launched.
• Support business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience planning.
• Contribute to the annual review and testing of risk management programs and controls, and help track remediation of identified gaps.
• Advise senior leadership on emerging risks as the business and its product offerings evolve, including in fast-moving areas like crypto derivatives

Skills

Risk management

Regulated entities

Regulatory liaison

Clear communication

Job description

Blockchain.com is seeking a Senior Risk Officer to design, implement, and oversee risk management across all business lines, with a focus on regulated derivatives. You will work with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations to strengthen risk posture as the company scales globally.

You will report into the Risk function and address market, credit, liquidity, operational, and technology risks, ensuring controls meet regulatory expectations across jurisdictions.