Head of Risk

Keyrock; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180.000 - 360.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Annual retreats

Semi-flexible hours

Challenging work environment

Entrepreneurial culture

Zusammenfassung

Keyrock is seeking a Head of Risk to own the firm’s risk function end-to-end. This senior role requires strong quantitative risk expertise and the ability to implement and enforce a firm-wide risk framework across trading, treasury and investments in both CeFi and DeFi contexts.

You will co-design the risk architecture with the COO and CIO, covering data, analytics and real-time risk aggregation, with oversight across traditional and digital asset exposures.

Qualifikationen

• Strong foundation in quantitative risk management, including market, credit and liquidity risk modelling.
• Experience designing firm-wide risk systems in collaboration with technology and operations teams.
• Ability to translate risk requirements into scalable infrastructure in crypto environments.

Aufgaben

• Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework for tradfi and crypto assets.
• Co-design and implement firm-wide risk management system with COO and CIO.
• Lead cross-functional teams across data, analytics and risk reporting.
• Define risk appetite and metrics for real-time monitoring and stress testing.
• Translate traditional risk methodologies to crypto-native markets (24/7, on-chain).

Kenntnisse

Quantitative risk

Risk modelling

Cross-functional leadership

Crypto risk

System design

Jobbeschreibung

About Keyrock

Since 2017, Keyrock has been a change-maker in digital assets. We're a global, remote-first team of 200+ people across 40+ nationalities, with hubs in Brussels, London, Paris and New York. We provide liquidity across 80+ centralized and decentralized exchanges - a position cemented by our Series C, led by SC Ventures. Today we run a full spectrum of capital markets businesses across centralized and on-chain venues: market making, high-frequency trading, options, OTC, DeFi trading desks, advisory, and asset management.

We're building toward the agentic investment banking capabilities for the era of digital finance. A proprietary agentic layer runs the mechanics of the market, so our people can focus on the work code cannot do: the deal, the relationship, and the judgement. We're not just envisioning the future of finance - we're building it.

What we are looking for

We are seeking a Head of Risk to own and develop the Firm’s risk function end-to-end. This is a senior leadership role with direct accountability for the design, implementation and enforcement of a Firm-wide risk framework across all activities.

The role requires strong quantitative risk expertise and the ability to apply rigorous methodologies to complex, real-time markets across both traditional finance and digital assets. The successful candidate will co-design the firm’s risk architecture with the COO and CIO, covering data, analytics and real-time risk aggregation.

You will have full oversight of risk across trading (spot and derivatives), treasury and investments, including exposures across CeFi and DeFi environments. This includes defining risk appetite, implementing advanced risk metrics and ensuring disciplined risk-taking across the organization.

We are looking for a leader who sets the standard, challenges the business and enforces a strong risk culture, while enabling the firm to scale.

Role description

Quantitative Risk Framework

Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework grounded in modern risk theory (e.g. market, credit, liquidity and systemic risk modelling), leveraging concepts such as tail risk, extreme value theory, dependence structures and stress testing.

Firm-wide Risk System Architecture

Co-design and implement the Firm-wide risk management system in close collaboration with the COO and CIO, including data architecture, risk aggregation layers, real-time monitoring capabilities and reporting infrastructure across all business lines.

Cross-Asset & Cross-Infrastructure Risk Integration

Build an integrated risk view across centralized and decentralized venues, covering exchange risk, counterparty risk, smart contract risk, collateral efficiency and liquidity fragmentation.

Advanced Risk Modelling & Metrics

Define and implement advanced risk metrics (VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress scenarios, liquidity-adjusted risk, concentration risk) and ensure their consistent application across trading, treasury and investment activities.

Is plus

TradFi Crypto Risk Translation

Translate traditional financial risk methodologies into crypto-native environments, adapting models to account for 24/7 markets, fragmented liquidity, funding dynamics, on-chain transparency and new failure modes (e.g. oracle risk, protocol risk).

Background and Experience

Quantitative Risk Expertise

Strong foundation in quantitative risk management, including hands-on experience with market risk, credit risk and liquidity risk modelling, ideally aligned with frameworks such as those presented in Quantitative Risk Management (McNeil, Frey, Embrechts).

Modelling & Analytical Skills

Demonstrated ability to design and implement risk models, including tail risk estimation, scenario analysis, stress testing frameworks and dependence modelling across asset classes.

System Design & Cross-Functional Leadership

Proven experience in designing or co-designing firm-wide risk systems, working closely with technology (CIO) and operations (COO) to translate risk requirements into scalable infrastructure.

TradFi + Crypto Hybrid Experience

Experience operating at the intersection of traditional financial markets and digital assets (CeFi and/or DeFi), with a strong understanding of differences in market structure, risk transmission and infrastructure.

Crypto-Specific Risk Understanding

Practical knowledge of crypto-specific risks, including exchange/custodian risk, smart contract risk, protocol risk, funding/basis dynamics and collateral management in both centralized and decentralized environments.

Competences and personality

Strong drive and proactivity to continuously strengthen the risk management in a fast-growing financial institution

The candidate reports to the COO but this is not a reporting role, but a quantitative risk management system-building role.

Our recruitment philosophy

We look for self-aware candidates who bring both the core skills required for the role and a deep alignment with our performance principles. We seek fiercely passionate, mission-driven people who communicate with purpose and practice proactive ownership. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who prioritises mission over ego, maintains a commercial mindset, and delivers long-term value through pragmatic flexibility.

Our offer

A competitive salary and global benefit package

• Annual Team Retreats: a yearly offsite dedicated to strategy, celebration of our wins and fun team activities
• Autonomy in your time management thanks to semi-flexible working hours
• Fast-paced, highly intellectually stimulating working environment
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence

Keyrock offers you both a career and a large range of benefits that we will gladly discuss in the course of the application process.

As an employer we are committed to building an inclusive, diverse and non-discriminating work environment.

We welcome employees of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, creed and sexual orientation.

We hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.