Head of Risk (AI)

Location: New York, NY; 5 days/week in-office

Base salary: $175,000–$250,000 per year, plus competitive initial equity package and refreshers.

Company

hirify.global is building a commodity risk management platform that combines real-time market data, AI-powered exposure modeling, and automated trade generation for the physical economy.

What you will do

• Own market and credit risk management across client hedging activity, execution timing differences, and temporary risk warehousing.
• Build real-time firm-wide exposure visibility and systematic hedging strategies across futures, options, and OTC markets.
• Design the credit risk framework covering counterparty assessment, exposure limits, credit lines, margining, collateral, and escalation protocols.
• Model wrong-way risk, liquidity risk, stress scenarios, collateral coverage, and margin sufficiency.
• Partner with engineering to build real-time dashboards, automated hedging and rebalancing systems, and counterparty monitoring tools.
• Advise product, strategy, compliance, and executive leadership on credit-enabled hedging products and regulatory alignment with CFTC/NFA expectations.

Requirements

• 7–12+ years of experience in risk management, trading, or credit at a commodity firm, bank, FCM, or hedge fund.
• Deep experience with market risk, derivatives, hedging, credit risk, counterparties, margining, underwriting, and collateral.
• Strong understanding of futures, options, OTC derivatives, and financing structures.
• Experience managing exposures that must be tightly controlled and rapidly neutralized.
• Strong quantitative and systems mindset; Python or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Ability to build risk frameworks from scratch in an early-stage company.

Nice to have

• Experience in client facilitation or agency-style trading environments.
• Background at commodity merchants, FCMs, or prime brokers.
• Familiarity with trade finance or working capital solutions.
• Experience building risk systems from scratch at a scaling company.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 401(k) program.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Unlimited PTO and flexible hours.
• Paid lunch, coffee, snacks, dinner when working late, and a monthly gym stipend.
• Regular team off-sites.