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You'll work with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to make sure we can grow quickly without taking risks we don't understand.\nWhat You'll Do\nReview & challenge risk assessment across our payment flows, including on-ramps, off-ramps, card and bank funding, stablecoin settlement, and cross-border transfers.\n\nAssess and monitor counterparty risk across liquidity providers, exchanges, custodians, banking partners, payment processors, and blockchain infrastructure vendors.\n\nEvaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, and smart contract interactions, including protocol risk, liquidity depth, slippage, and settlement failure.\n\nReview & challenge risks related to crypto trading, including price slippage, execution latency, and hedging liquidity across venues.\n\nWork with Treasury on market, liquidity, and FX risk, including hedging strategy, inventory and float management, and stablecoin de-peg scenarios.\n\nProvide an independent review of new product proposals, collaborating early with Product and Engineering, ensuring all risks are identified and controls are integrated from inception, and recommending approval with or without conditions.\n\nReview business continuity testing and business impact analyses to ensure operational resilience and preparedness for disruptions.\n\nDevelop, maintain, and evolve the risk framework, with a strong focus on defining and embedding Risk Appetite Statements and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), alongside risk registers, limits, and escalation procedures.\n\nReview technology and information security risks across core systems, infrastructure, and third-party integrations to ensure robust safeguards and data protection.\n\nPrepare risk reporting for senior leadership, the board, auditors, and partners\n\nConduct third-party risk assessments and continuous monitoring for critical vendors, service providers, and partners.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nExperience\n5-10 years in risk management at a payments company, fintech, exchange, bank, or crypto firm.\n\nHands-on experience with credit/counterparty, operational, or market risk in a regulated or high-growth environment.\n\nStrong quantitative and analytical skills. 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