Director of Risk Management

Are you passionate about building institutional-grade risk systems for high-velocity crypto markets?
Do you thrive in fast-paced environments where you can own risk strategy end-to-end and influence trading decisions in real time?

We are looking for a hands-on, high-ownership Director of Risk to build, scale, and operate a complete risk framework across multiple external trading teams, quant strategies, and exchanges.
This role is ideal for someone with deep experience in crypto trading risk, derivatives, or multi-strategy quant funds, who knows how to combine market intuition with structured oversight.

Responsibilities:

• Review and challenge risk frameworks from external PMs, CTAs, and quant teams.
• Monitor trading behaviour for position drift, anomalies, unexpected exposure, or abnormal execution patterns.
• Evaluate token and asset-level risks: liquidity, volatility, depth, and chain-specific risks
• Monitor CEX/DEX liquidity, spreads, funding rate regimes, liquidation walls, and stablecoin health.
• Maintain a dynamic exchange risk scoring system (latency issues, downtime, API stability, counterparty risk).
• Build and oversee a FoF-level risk monitoring dashboard covering:
  * positions & net exposures
  * factor correlations
  * delta/gamma/vega (if relevant)
  * drawdowns vs benchmarks
  * margin movements & flows
• Define risk alerting logic (Slack/Telegram) and escalation thresholds.
• Collaborate with engineering to introduce circuit-breakers, auto-pause logic, and safeguards for abnormal behaviour.
• Lead rapid decision-making during critical events: exchange outages, chain congestion, depegs, black-swan moves, or strategy malfunctions.
• Communicate clear pause / reduce risk recommendations to CIO and partners.
• Build end-to-end risk policies and operating procedures.
• Define limits: max drawdowns, position limits, concentration thresholds.
• Oversee DEV/PROD separation and workflow hygiene.
• Conduct post-trade and post-incident reviews; enhance processes accordingly.
• Support evaluation of new strategies from a risk perspective.
• Work with fund admin, audit, and compliance teams to match HK/Cayman/Singapore standards.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in one or more of the following:
• Сrypto exchange risk, derivatives risk, quant trading risk, multi-manager FoF risk.
• Hands-on familiarity with futures, perpetuals, funding rate regimes, or options.
• Strong understanding of market microstructure (order books, slippage, liquidity behaviour).
• Ability to detect abnormal trading patterns or strategy misalignment
• Strong analytical foundation (Statistics, Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, etc.).
• Comfortable with Python/SQL or working with data engineers to define monitoring logic.
• Familiarity with dashboards (Grafana, Tableau, internal tools).
• Ability to translate analytical output into clear risk decisions
• High composure under pressure and strong decision-making ability.
• Clear communication with quant PMs and leadership.
• Extreme ownership mindset; comfortable building systems from scratch.