Head of Risk

The role

The Head of Risk will own and develop the firm's risk function end-to-end. This person will design, implement, and enforce a firm-wide risk framework across all activities including trading, treasury, and investments.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework
• Co-design and implement the firm-wide risk management system
• Build an integrated risk view across centralized and decentralized venues
• Define and implement advanced risk metrics
• Ensure consistent application of metrics across trading, treasury, and investment activities

Required qualifications

• Strong foundation in quantitative risk management
• Hands-on experience with market risk, credit risk and liquidity risk modelling
• Ability to design and implement risk models including tail risk estimation, scenario analysis, stress testing frameworks and dependence modelling
• Proven experience in designing or co-designing firm-wide risk systems
• Experience operating at the intersection of traditional financial markets and digital assets
• Practical knowledge of crypto-specific risks including exchange/custodian risk, smart contract risk, protocol risk, funding/basis dynamics and collateral management

Nice to have

• TradFi ↔ Crypto Risk Translation

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Global benefit package
• Annual Team Retreats
• Semi-flexible working hours

About the company

Keyrock is a global, remote-first team of 200+ people providing liquidity across 80+ centralized and decentralized exchanges. They run a full spectrum of capital markets businesses across centralized and on-chain venues.