Senior Risk Leader, Crypto & Derivatives

Blockchain; Dallas (TX); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary and meaningful?equ

Dallas office with four days in-person

Daily free lunch at the office

ClassPass to keep you moving

Apple equipment to do your best work

Key player role in a rapidly expanding

Flexible, modern, people-first work"

Descripción de la vacante

Blockchain is seeking a Senior Risk Officer to design and run risk management across the company, including regulated derivatives activities, reporting to senior leadership and partnering with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations.

You will build the risk program for derivatives entities, oversee market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, and help shape risk posture as the business scales globally.

Formación

• 8+ years of 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.
• Experience building, implementing, or enhancing a risk management program or framework.
• Excellent judgment and the confidence to make sound risk calls in a fast-moving, evolving business.
• Clear, plain-English communication skills you can explain risk concepts to engineers, executives, and regulators.
• Comfort working across a wide range of stakeholders and business lines in a company supporting multiple regulated activities.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Financial services

Regulatory/regime knowledge

Descripción del empleo

Blockchain is seeking a Senior Risk Officer to design and run risk management across the company, including regulated derivatives activities, reporting to senior leadership and partnering with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations.

You will build the risk program for derivatives entities, oversee market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, and help shape risk posture as the business scales globally.