Senior Risk Officer

Blockchain.com • Dallas, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Blockchain.com is seeking a Senior Risk Officer to build and run risk management across the company. This company-wide role works with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, Operations, and senior leadership to identify, measure, monitor, and manage risk across business lines as the company scales and expands.

A key focus is supporting the risk management programs for regulated derivatives entities, including the company’s expansion into regulated futures and derivatives markets in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. The role partners with the relevant compliance and risk officers to ensure risks are identified, monitored, and escalated appropriately. It covers market, credit, liquidity, operational, technology, legal, and counterparty risk, as well as specialized risks associated with regulated derivatives and digital asset collateral. The position reports into the broader Risk function.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of risk management experience at a financial institution, broker-dealer, futures firm, exchange, or similar regulated entity.
• Strong working knowledge of market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk and their practical application.
• Experience building, implementing, or enhancing a risk management program or framework.
• Excellent judgment and confidence making sound risk decisions in a fast-moving, evolving business.
• Clear, plain-English communication skills, including the ability 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 Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Help design, implement, and administer risk management frameworks, policies, and controls across the company's business lines.
• Identify, measure, monitor, and report on market, credit, liquidity, operational, technology, legal, and counterparty risks.
• Establish and maintain risk tolerance limits, monitor for breaches, and escalate issues to senior management and governance committees as needed.
• Support risk management programs for regulated derivatives entities, including customer fund segregation, margin and collateral adequacy, capital risk, and settlement risk.
• Partner with Compliance and regulatory counsel to help ensure risk controls meet applicable regulatory expectations across operating jurisdictions.
• Help oversee digital asset collateral risk, 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 when new products and features are launched.
• Support business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience planning.
• Contribute to annual reviews 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 risks in crypto derivatives.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Daily free lunch at the office.
• ClassPass.
• Apple equipment.
• Opportunity to be a key player and build a career at a rapidly expanding global technology company.
• Flexible, modern, and people-first work culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed