Senior Risk Officer

As a Senior Risk Officer at Blockchain.com, you'll build and run risk management across the company, working with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations to strengthen the overall risk posture. You'll help identify, measure, and manage risk across all business lines, with specialized focus on the company's expansion into regulated derivatives in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. You'll support the risk management program for regulated derivatives entities, ensuring risk is identified, monitored, and escalated as the business grows. If you've built or run risk programs at a financial institution, this is your opportunity to apply that experience across a global crypto platform.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, and administer risk management frameworks, policies, and controls across 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
• Support the risk management program for regulated derivatives entities, covering customer fund segregation, margin and collateral adequacy, capital risk, and settlement risk
• Partner with Compliance 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 regulators and self-regulatory organizations where applicable
• Partner with Product and Engineering to assess and manage risk as new products and features launch
• 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 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: 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, able to explain risk concepts to engineers, executives, and regulators
• Comfort working 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

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in the company
• Based in the London office with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week
• Work from Anywhere Policy allowing remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year
• ClassPass membership
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Apple equipment
• Flexible work culture and the opportunity to build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company

About Blockchain.com

Blockchain.com is a global crypto company connecting millions of people to the future of finance. Since 2011, it has earned the trust of over 90 million wallet holders and 40 million verified users, facilitating over $1 trillion in crypto transactions. The company helps people safely buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrency and is expanding into regulated derivatives markets.