Senior Risk Officer

As a Senior Risk Officer at Blockchain.com, you'll help build and run risk management across the company, identifying, measuring, and managing risk across business lines. You'll work closely with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations to strengthen the overall risk posture as the company scales. A key focus will be supporting expansion into regulated derivatives, where you'll build out the risk management program for regulated futures and derivatives entities in the U.S. and other jurisdictions.

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
• 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 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 regulators and self-regulatory organizations where applicable
• 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 product offerings evolve, including in 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 the confidence to make sound risk calls in a fast-moving, evolving business
• Clear communication skills 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

• Unlimited vacation policy
• Unlimited books policy to order technical resources or access the company library
• Apple equipment
• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in the company
• Role based in the Malta office with mandatory in-office presence four days per week

About Blockchain.com

Blockchain.com is a global crypto company trusted by over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, having facilitated over $1 trillion in crypto transactions since 2011. The company helps millions of people safely access cryptocurrency and is expanding into regulated derivatives markets.