Head of Risk (DeFi)

#Recruitment
🏡 Aave #DeFi #Lending
🐇 Introduction:

An open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lending and borrowing.

🛵 #FullTime #Onsite #London
📚 #Head·of·Risk #Security
💰 Compensation: Negotiable

🌱 Responsibilities:
1️⃣ Lead and build the Risk team, setting direction, priorities, and standards for the function.
2️⃣ Own and evolve Aave’s risk management frameworks and policies.
3️⃣ Set minimum review standards and provide independent challenge for product-specific risk frameworks.
4️⃣ Establish model-risk and data-governance standards for material quantitative models and external risk inputs, including validation, versioning and monitoring.
5️⃣ Review whether product and engineering controls adequately implement approved risk requirements, with explicit ownership of gaps, exceptions and incident response.
6️⃣ Establish standards for external risk providers and data dependencies, including methodology, independence, conflicts, data quality, performance and fallback arrangements.
7️⃣ Own the governance, approval thresholds and escalation process for protocol-risk parameters; oversee monitoring and review material change recommendations.
8️⃣ Approve and sign off on collateral onboarding decisions and risk assessments.
9️⃣ Review liquidation performance and recommend improvements to liquidation mechanisms.
🔟 Lead risk governance processes and present risk analyses to the DAO.
1️⃣1️⃣ Monitor market structure changes and their implications for protocol risk.
1️⃣2️⃣ Take accountability for the quality, independence and timeliness of Risk’s assessments, ensuring residual risks, decision owners and escalation paths are explicit and drive a culture of ownership within the team.

🌵 Requirements:
1️⃣ 5+ years of experience in risk management, with a strong preference for DeFi or crypto-native experience.
2️⃣ Proven experience leading and managing a risk team.
3️⃣ Deep understanding of the Aave Protocol: its markets, governance, parameters, and risk dynamics.
4️⃣ Strong grasp of market structure, portfolio risk management, and stress testing methodologies.
5️⃣ Experience governing risk for composable DeFi products or pooled strategies, including external protocol, liquidity, oracle, counterparty, execution and operational dependencies.
6️⃣ Experience working with or managing external risk service providers.
7️⃣ Strong sense of accountability and ownership. You take responsibility for outcomes and hold your team to the same standard.
8️⃣ Excellent judgment under uncertainty. You’re comfortable making consequential decisions with imperfect information.
9️⃣ Strong communication skills for governance proposals, risk reports, and stakeholder alignment.
💡 Nice to have:
1️⃣ Previous experience working directly with DeFi governance processes.
2️⃣ Background in traditional finance risk management (portfolio, credit, or market risk).
3️⃣ Familiarity with risk tooling and simulation platforms used in DeFi.

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