Operational Risk Manager (Crypto & Payments)

Location: Remote within the United States or Canada

Company

hirify.global provides regulated crypto, stablecoin, payments, and tokenized asset infrastructure for banks, brokerages, fintechs, and payment companies.

What you will do

• Design and implement the operational risk framework, including loss event taxonomy, business line ownership, and integration with enterprise risk.
• Build and maintain the loss event database, capture material failures, perform root-cause analysis, and identify recurring patterns.
• Design and run the RCSA process across business lines, challenge results, and prepare risk reporting.
• Run FAIR-based scenario analysis for settlement failures, infrastructure outages, third-party dependencies, and payment disruptions.
• Test operational controls and report findings to the CRO, Risk Committee, and board.
• Represent Risk in Engineering post-incident reviews, track remediation, and escalate recurring issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of operational risk experience, including 2+ years in a dedicated OpRisk role at a regulated financial institution, fintech, payments, or crypto firm; 7+ years is typical.
• Substantial ownership of an RCSA methodology and experience producing materials for a risk committee or board.
• Experience connecting patterns across incidents and driving structural fixes.
• Experience working with Engineering or Technology teams on incidents, postmortems, or technology risk.
• Program-level loss event management experience, including taxonomy, database design, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience quantifying operational scenarios; FAIR experience is preferred.

Nice to have

• Open FAIR certification or equivalent hands-on FAIR practice.
• Experience in digital assets, payments, or fintech with complex technology-dependent operations.
• Familiarity with the Basel operational risk event taxonomy.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the United States or Canada.
• Healthcare coverage, with approximately 100% of employee premiums covered in the U.S.; vision and dental insurance are also available in the U.S.
• Equity opportunity, maternity and paternity leave after six months, and a WeWork All Access membership.
• Yearly work-from-home stipend and learning and development stipend after six months.
• Culture emphasizing ownership, independence, collaboration, initiative, adaptability, transparency, and integrity.