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Risk Lead
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
A pioneering crypto financial ecosystem is building what can best be described as a crypto-native central bank. The system allocates capital to independent agents deploying funds across DeFi lending markets and real-world asset strategies. To support this next phase of growth, the organization is hiring a Risk Lead to architect the capital, liquidity, and stability frameworks that govern the ecosystem. This role sits at the frontier of financial engineering, decentralized governance, and systemic risk management.
The Risk Lead will own the risk architecture of the ecosystem. You will work directly with founders and senior stakeholders to design and enforce frameworks that ensure the system remains capitalized, liquid, and resilient as it scales. This role combines central-bank-style policy thinking with hands-on quantitative modeling in a crypto-native environment.
What You Will Own
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Capital Policy:
- Design capital requirements across DeFi lending, RWAs, and hybrid strategies
- Translate risk exposures into quantitative capital buffers
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Liquidity & Peg Stability:
- Develop frameworks to defend the ecosystem's stablecoin peg
- Define liquidity tiers and redemption mechanisms
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Risk Modeling:
- Build stress testing models and scenario analysis frameworks
- Develop risk tooling using Python and SQL
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Protocol Governance:
- Translate risk frameworks into on-chain governance proposals
- Implement enforceable capital and operational limits
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DeFi Risk Architecture:
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Model and mitigate risks from:
- smart contract vulnerabilities
- oracle dependencies
- bridge exploits
- governance attack vectors
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Model and mitigate risks from:
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System Monitoring:
- Monitor live allocations
- Conduct post-mortems and refine models as the system evolves
Qualifications
- 8–10+ years of senior risk experience
- Background at top-tier TradFi institutions (investment banks, asset managers, regulators)
- Deep DeFi protocol knowledge
- Experience with lending markets, perpetuals/basis structures, and stablecoin liquidity systems
- Advanced quantitative skills with Python and SQL
- Experience designing capital or liquidity frameworks
- Hands-on experience writing on-chain governance proposals
Benefits
- $350,000 – $550,000 base
- Token incentives and performance rewards
- Remote within the United States
- Occasional team off-sites
Job Requirements
- 8–10+ years of senior risk experience
- Background at top-tier TradFi institutions (investment banks, asset managers, regulators)
- Deep DeFi protocol knowledge
- Experience with lending markets, perpetuals/basis structures, and stablecoin liquidity systems
- Advanced quantitative skills with Python and SQL
- Experience designing capital or liquidity frameworks
- Hands-on experience writing on-chain governance proposals
Benefits
- $350,000 – $550,000 base
- Token incentives and performance rewards
- Remote within the United States
- Occasional team off-sites
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