Crypto Payments Risk Lead – Hybrid NY

Wwshemi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working schedule

Private healthcare benefits

Wellhub wellness membership

Lunch credit

Home office setup allowance

Remote working allowance

Job summary

MoonPay is hiring a Principal Risk Analyst in New York for a hybrid role within Compliance. You will identify, measure, and mitigate risks across a crypto payments platform, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Treasury, and Operations to enable rapid growth with controls.

Ideal candidates bring 5–10 years of risk management experience in crypto or payments, deep crypto payments knowledge, and strong quantitative skills to build dashboards and models that inform decision-making and risk

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in risk management at a payments company, fintech, exchange, bank, or crypto firm.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; comfortable building dashboards and models.

Responsibilities

• Review risk assessment across payment flows (on/off ramps, card funding, stablecoin settlement).
• Assess counterparty risk across liquidity providers and partners.
• Evaluate cross-chain bridge and smart contract risks and hedging strategies.
• Provide independent review of new product proposals with risk-focused guidance.
• Prepare risk reporting for senior leadership and auditors.

Skills

Risk management

Payments industry

Quantitative analysis

Dashboards

Crypto payments

Regulatory awareness

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM

Elliptic

Job description

MoonPay is hiring a Principal Risk Analyst in New York for a hybrid role within Compliance. You will identify, measure, and mitigate risks across a crypto payments platform, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Treasury, and Operations to enable rapid growth with controls.

Ideal candidates bring 5–10 years of risk management experience in crypto or payments, deep crypto payments knowledge, and strong quantitative skills to build dashboards and models that inform decision-making and risk