Head of Trading Risk (Crypto)

Location: Remote in APAC or Europe, or onsite in Dubai, UAE

Company

hirify.global is a cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform providing trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3 products to users worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the newly formed Trading Risk team, defining its strategy, OKRs, performance standards, and risk-focused culture.
• Own business risk operations and logic design across spot trading, derivatives, lending, and earn products.
• Design risk control frameworks, alert systems, escalation protocols, position limits, margin requirements, and circuit breakers.
• Assess risks associated with new products and feature changes and provide logic design recommendations to business units.
• Oversee real-time risk monitoring, incident response, post-mortems, and systematic remediation.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to build robust and scalable risk control systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years of risk management experience in financial services, fintech, or crypto/digital assets.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing risk teams of 5 or more people.
• Deep expertise in derivatives risk, including futures, options, perpetual swaps, CFDs, margin models, liquidation engines, and settlement processes.
• Experience managing risk across at least three product areas, including spot, derivatives, lending, or earn/yield products.
• Strong quantitative background with the ability to design and validate risk models, parameters, and control logic.
• Fluent English required; proficiency in Mandarin Chinese is strongly preferred. Programming proficiency in Python and/or C++ is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with crypto or digital asset exchanges, high-frequency trading, or algorithmic trading.
• TradFi risk management experience in banking, proprietary trading, or hedge funds.
• Familiarity with market surveillance tools and risk-related system architecture.
• Advanced degree in quantitative finance, financial engineering, mathematics, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Executive visibility and direct leadership of a strategically important newly formed team.
• Opportunity to define risk frameworks across an expanding product ecosystem.
• Competitive compensation based on experience.
• Study Growth Fund supporting professional development and continuous learning.
• International collaboration, internal events, career advancement, and internal mobility opportunities.