Risk Manager

The role

The Risk Manager will strengthen and build out the risk function to manage customer exposure. This includes refining margin methodology, building stress tests, and managing regulatory capital and residual interest.

What you will do

• Own and continuously refine Kalshi Prime's margin methodology
• Monitor customer positions and concentration in real time
• Build and run stress tests modeling customer portfolios under extreme market moves
• Backtest models against historical price action
• Own the residual interest calculation and process
• Monitor net capital and segregated funds compliance
• Maintain the playbook for an actual customer default
• Prepare risk materials for the Risk Management Committee
• Assess new products and markets for margin parameters before launch

Required qualifications

• Direct experience managing a risk function at an FCM or CFTC Swap Dealer risk experience
• 4-7 years of experience minimum with a track record as a decision-maker and approver in a risk function
• Deep fluency in risk and margin models, with the ability to build them yourself
• Strong grounding in derivatives and financial markets
• Comfortable working with concepts like VaR
• Ability to independently build risk scenarios and forecasts
• Working knowledge of the relevant regulatory landscape
• Technically savvy and self-sufficient
• Strong multitasking ability across risk, financial markets, and operational demands

Benefits

• equity
• benefits

About the company

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. The company allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset.