Head of Risk (Crypto)

Location: Remote from London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Warsaw or Zurich

Company

hirify.global is a digital-assets firm providing liquidity and capital-markets services across centralized and decentralized exchanges, including market making, high-frequency trading, options, OTC, DeFi trading, advisory and asset management.

What you will do

• Own and develop the firm-wide risk function across trading, treasury and investment activities.
• Define risk appetite and enforce disciplined risk-taking across spot, derivatives, CeFi and DeFi environments.
• Co-design the risk management system with the COO and CIO, including data architecture, risk aggregation, real-time monitoring and reporting infrastructure.
• Build an integrated view of exchange, counterparty, smart-contract, collateral and liquidity-fragmentation risks.
• Define and implement VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress scenarios, liquidity-adjusted risk and concentration-risk metrics.
• Set the standard for risk culture while enabling the firm to scale.

Requirements

• Strong quantitative risk-management expertise covering market, credit and liquidity risk modelling.
• Experience designing risk models involving tail-risk estimation, scenario analysis, stress testing and dependence modelling.
• Experience designing or co-designing firm-wide risk systems and translating requirements into scalable infrastructure.
• Experience across traditional financial markets and digital assets, including CeFi and/or DeFi.
• Practical understanding of exchange, custodian, smart-contract, protocol, funding, basis and collateral risks.
• Strong drive, proactivity and ability to challenge the business while strengthening risk management.

Nice to have

• Experience translating traditional financial risk methodologies into crypto-native environments.
• Knowledge of 24/7 markets, fragmented liquidity, funding dynamics, on-chain transparency, oracle risk and protocol risk.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and global benefits package.
• Annual team retreats focused on strategy, achievements and team activities.
• Semi-flexible working hours and autonomy in time management.
• Fast-paced and intellectually stimulating working environment.
• Entrepreneurial environment focused on excellence, mission and long-term value.