Head of Balance Sheet Risk

Location: Boston, Massachusetts or Springfield, Massachusetts

Salary: $249,100–$347,500 base salary, plus annual bonuses and long-term awards

Company

hirify.global is a purpose-driven life insurance and financial services organization focused on long-term financial strength, risk management, and customer outcomes.

What you will do

• Lead second-line oversight of market, liquidity, and capital risk frameworks, controls, and governance.
• Assess asset allocation trade-offs and investment guidelines in partnership with Investment Management and Finance.
• Oversee liquidity risk management, risk appetite methodologies, economic capital analysis, and stress and scenario testing.
• Define the future-state roadmap for capital and liquidity stress modeling, data, governance, and operating processes.
• Provide independent risk assessment of capital transactions, strategic investments, and M&A activity.
• Lead and develop a team of 13 capital markets, risk, and actuarial professionals and present recommendations to senior committees.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant investment risk management experience, including an insurance company focus.
• Bachelor’s degree in financial engineering, mathematics, actuarial science, physics, engineering, finance, or a similar quantitative discipline.
• Experience as a second-line risk leader influencing senior decision-makers in a matrixed environment.
• Extensive quantitative market, credit, and asset allocation modeling experience, including private credit, structured assets, derivatives, and hedging.
• Experience applying economic value and capital frameworks, liability-driven investing, and risk management practices within the life insurance industry.
• Strong project management, analytical, collaboration, executive communication, and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree or professional certification such as FSA, CFA, CAIA, or FRM.
• Deep expertise in insurance investment, market, liquidity, and ALM risk frameworks.
• Experience with life insurance and annuity products, long-duration guarantees, embedded options, and policyholder behavior.
• Experience using AI and advanced analytics to improve risk analysis and decision-ready insights.
• Experience leading large, complex projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Meaningful work with clear ownership and accountability connected to company and customer outcomes.
• Collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are welcomed.
• Access to learning, development, and internal professional networks.
• Employee-led communities and forums supporting connection, learning, and inclusion.
• Culture grounded in integrity, responsibility, stewardship, and long-term impact.