Principal Risk Analyst (Crypto)

Location: New York, US — hybrid. The benefits also allow fully remote work or work from a nearby Moonbase.

Company

hirify.global builds infrastructure for moving value through crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and related payment products, serving more than 30 million customers and 500 ecosystem partners.

What you will do

• Review and challenge risk assessments across on-ramps, off-ramps, card and bank funding, stablecoin settlement, and cross-border transfers.
• Assess counterparty exposure across liquidity providers, exchanges, custodians, banks, payment processors, and blockchain infrastructure vendors.
• Evaluate cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, AMMs, smart contracts, protocol risk, liquidity depth, slippage, MEV, settlement failures, and trading execution risks.
• Partner with Treasury on market, liquidity, FX, hedging, inventory, float, and stablecoin de-peg risks.
• Independently review new products, business continuity tests, technology and information security risks, and third-party risk assessments.
• Develop the risk framework, including Risk Appetite Statements, KRIs, risk registers, limits, escalation procedures, and reporting for leadership, the board, auditors, and partners.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of risk management experience in payments, fintech, an exchange, a bank, or a crypto firm.
• Hands-on experience with credit or counterparty, operational, or market risk in a regulated or high-growth environment.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including building dashboards and models from raw data.
• Deep end-to-end knowledge of crypto payments, including fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat flows, swaps, stablecoin settlement, merchant and card acquiring.
• Working knowledge of blockchain fundamentals, including consensus, finality, confirmations, reorgs, gas and fees, wallets, and key management.
• Understanding of cross-chain bridges and their trust and security models, swaps, DEXs, AMMs, liquidity pools, slippage, MEV, aggregator routing, and bridge exploits.
• Knowledge of crypto hedging through spot, perpetuals, futures, and options, plus stablecoin basis, reserve, and de-peg risk.
• Familiarity with smart contract risk and audits, blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM, or Elliptic, and on-chain data exploration.
• Excellent judgment under uncertainty, clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to explain technical risk as business impact and collaborate without becoming a blocker.

Nice to have

• FRM, PRM, or CAMS certification, or a quantitative degree.
• DeFi experience or familiarity with reading or writing simple smart contract logic.
• Experience building a risk function at a scaling company.

Culture & Benefits

• High-accountability, high-velocity environment focused on ownership, outcomes, and solving complex problems.
• Hybrid work with the option to work fully remotely or from a nearby Moonbase, plus regular remote company offsites.
• Competitive salary, equity ownership, performance-based equity bonuses, pension contributions, private healthcare, and flexible time off.
• Parental, birthday, and company-wide recharge leave, home-office and remote-work allowances, and lunch credit on office days.
• AI-tool access, a $1,000 annual training budget, mentorship and stretch opportunities, product budget, and zero-fee crypto transactions.