Senior Risk Officer

As a Senior Risk Officer at Blockchain.com, you'll help build and run risk management across the company. You'll identify, measure, and manage risk across business lines, working with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations. A key focus is supporting expansion into regulated derivatives in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, where you'll build out risk management programs for regulated futures and derivatives entities.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, and administer risk management frameworks, policies, and controls across the company's business lines
• Identify, measure, monitor, and report on key risk categories, including market, credit, liquidity, operational, technology, legal, and counterparty risk
• Establish and maintain risk tolerance limits, monitor for breaches, and escalate issues to senior management and governance committees as needed
• Support the risk management program for regulated derivatives entities, covering customer fund segregation, margin and collateral adequacy, capital risk, and settlement risk
• Partner with the business's compliance function and regulatory counsel to ensure risk controls meet applicable regulatory expectations across jurisdictions
• Oversee risk related to digital asset collateral, including valuation, haircuts, custody arrangements, and liquidation triggers
• Prepare and deliver regular risk exposure reporting to senior management, risk committees, and where applicable, regulators and self-regulatory organizations
• Partner with Product and Engineering to assess and manage risk as new products and features are launched
• Support business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience planning
• Contribute to the annual review and testing of risk management programs and controls, and help track remediation of identified gaps
• Advise senior leadership on emerging risks as the business and its product offerings evolve, including in fast-moving areas like crypto derivatives

What you bring

• 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, including market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, and how they apply in practice
• Experience building, implementing, or enhancing a risk management program or framework
• Excellent judgment and confidence to make sound risk calls in a fast-moving, evolving business
• Clear communication skills: you can explain risk concepts to engineers, executives, and regulators alike
• Ability to work across a wide range of stakeholders and business lines in a company supporting multiple regulated activities

Nice to have

• Experience with futures, derivatives, or FCM risk management, including customer fund segregation, margin, and collateral risk
• 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

What we offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• Based in the Dallas office with four days per week in-person collaboration
• Daily free lunch at the office
• ClassPass membership to keep you moving and well
• Apple equipment to do your best work
• Flexible, modern, and people-first work culture

About Blockchain.com

Blockchain.com is a global crypto company that has earned the trust of over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, facilitating over $1 trillion in crypto transactions since 2011. The company helps millions of people worldwide safely access cryptocurrency and is expanding into regulated derivatives markets.