What you’ll do

📍Risk strategy and governance: Define and mature the crypto risk management strategy and operating model. Establish and refine risk policies, standards, and procedures. Run governance and committee reporting for risk management. 📍Risk appetite and metrics: Own the Risk Appetite Statements for Crypto entities and implement a comprehensive KRI framework with thresholds, alerts, and escalation paths. 📍Enterprise and product risk assessments: Lead RCSAs, Enterprise Risk Assessments, and Product/Change Risk Assessments (i.e. new feature launches like staking, and significant process/technology changes). 📍Coordinate sufficient approvals and control implementation pre-launch. Issue, incident, and control management: Oversee issues and remediation plans end-to-end; run post-incident reviews with root-cause analysis and durable corrective actions; partner with first-line owners and Internal Audit on control design, testing, and continuous monitoring. 📍Analytics and reporting: Build executive-ready dashboards and monthly/quarterly risk reports in collaboration with data teams (e.g., Superset, Looker); deliver crisp insights, trends, and calls to action to crypto and enterprise leadership; prepare materials for Board/committee updates as needed. 📍Regulatory and audit interface: Serve as a primary risk counterpart for regulatory examinations and supervisory touchpoints (e.g., NYDFS/BitLicense, state regulators, and MiCA/DORA); coordinate requests, evidence, and responses; manage findings and remediation to closure. 📍Technology, security, and vendor risk partnership: Partner with Security, Engineering, and Vendor Management on access/change management, third-party risk, custody partner oversight, and blockchain infrastructure risks; drive risk-by-design principles across the lifecycle. 📍GRC tooling and process excellence: Define requirements and drive effective use of GRC tooling for assessments, issues, KRIs, and reporting; automate where possible and continually improve process efficiency and scalability. 📍Team leadership: Build and develop a small, high-performing team; set clear goals and operating rhythms; coach for impact; manage budget, vendor relationships, and hiring.

What you bring

📍7+ years of progressive experience in risk management within crypto, fintech, broker-dealer, payments, or adjacent financial services; 📍3+ years leading teams or owning risk programs. 📍Deep understanding of crypto products and infrastructure (e.g., trading, custody, staking, on-chain transfers, wallets, keys, chain analytics) and associated operational, technology, market, liquidity, and financial crime risks. 📍Demonstrated track record building and scaling risk management programs, KRIs/metrics, and governance in fast-paced, regulated environments. 📍Hands-on experience with end-to-end risk assessment lifecycles, issue/incident management, and enterprise resilience (BIA/BCP/DRP).

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