Senior Risk Officer

The role

You will help build and run risk management across the company. You will identify, measure, and manage risk across business lines including market, credit, liquidity, operational, technology, and counterparty risk.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and administer risk management frameworks, policies, and controls
• Identify, measure, monitor, and report on key risk categories
• Establish and maintain risk tolerance limits and escalate issues
• Support the risk management program for regulated derivatives entities
• Partner with compliance function and regulatory counsel
• Oversee risk related to digital asset collateral
• Prepare and deliver regular risk exposure reporting
• Partner with Product and Engineering to assess risk for new products
• Support business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience planning
• Contribute to annual review and testing of risk management programs

Required qualifications

• 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
• Clear, plain-English communication skills
• Comfort working across a wide range of stakeholders and business lines

Nice to have

• Experience with futures, derivatives, or FCM risk management
• Experience supporting a new regulated entity through registration, licensing, or similar regulatory processes
• Familiarity with crypto or digital asset products and their associated risks
• Experience with enterprise risk management programs spanning multiple business lines or entities
• Familiarity with risk considerations across multiple regulatory regimes and jurisdictions

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Daily free lunch at the office
• ClassPass
• Apple equipment

About the company

Blockchain is a global crypto company that helps people access cryptocurrency. Since 2011, it has served over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users.