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About this role
Keyrock is seeking a Head of Risk to develop and oversee the firm's risk function, focusing on quantitative risk expertise and risk framework implementation across traditional finance and digital assets.
Description
About Keyrock
Since 2017, Keyrock has been a change-maker in digital assets. We're a global, remote-first team of 200+ people across 40+ nationalities, with hubs in Brussels, London, Paris and New York. We provide liquidity across 80+ centralized and decentralized exchanges - a position cemented by our Series C, led by SC Ventures. Today we run a full spectrum of capital markets businesses across centralized and on-chain venues: market making, high-frequency trading, options, OTC, DeFi trading desks, advisory, and asset management. We're building toward the agentic investment banking capabilities for the era of digital finance. A proprietary agentic layer runs the mechanics of the market, so our people can focus on the work code cannot do: the deal, the relationship, and the judgement. We're not just envisioning the future of finance - we're building it.Responsibilities
Role description
- Quantitative Risk Framework: Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework grounded in modern risk theory (e.g. market, credit, liquidity and systemic risk modelling), leveraging concepts such as tail risk, extreme value theory, dependence structures and stress testing.
- Firm-wide Risk System Architecture: Co-design and implement the Firm-wide risk management system in close collaboration with the COO and CIO, including data architecture, risk aggregation layers, real-time monitoring capabilities and reporting infrastructure across all business lines.
- Cross-Asset & Cross-Infrastructure Risk Integration: Build an integrated risk view across centralized and decentralized venues, covering exchange risk, counterparty risk, smart contract risk, collateral efficiency and liquidity fragmentation.
- Advanced Risk Modelling & Metrics: Define and implement advanced risk metrics (VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress scenarios, liquidity-adjusted risk, concentration risk) and ensure their consistent application across trading, treasury and investment activities.
- Is plus: TradFi ↔ Crypto Risk Translation: Translate traditional financial risk methodologies into crypto-native environments, adapting models to account for 24/7 markets, fragmented liquidity, funding dynamics, on-chain transparency and new failure modes (e.g. oracle risk, protocol risk).
Requirements
Background and Experience
- Quantitative Risk Expertise: Strong foundation in quantitative risk management, including hands-on experience with market risk, credit risk and liquidity risk modelling, ideally aligned with frameworks such as those presented in Quantitative Risk Management (McNeil, Frey, Embrechts).
- Modelling & Analytical Skills: Demonstrated ability to design and implement risk models, including tail risk estimation, scenario analysis, stress testing frameworks and dependence modelling across asset classes.
- System Design & Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven experience in designing or co-designing firm-wide risk systems, working closely with technology (CIO) and operations (COO) to translate risk requirements into scalable infrastructure.
- TradFi + Crypto Hybrid Experience: Experience operating at the intersection of traditional financial markets and digital assets (CeFi and/or DeFi), with a strong understanding of differences in market structure, risk transmission and infrastructure.
- Crypto-Specific Risk Understanding: Practical knowledge of crypto-specific risks, including exchange/custodian risk, smart contract risk, protocol risk, funding/basis dynamics and collateral management in both centralized and decentralized environments.
Conditions & Benefits
Our offer
- A competitive salary and global benefit package.
- Annual Team Retreats: a yearly offsite dedicated to strategy, celebration of our wins and fun team activities.
- Autonomy in your time management thanks to semi-flexible working hours.
- Fast-paced, highly intellectually stimulating working environment.
- The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence.
Job Details
Market range (est.)$135k–$270k
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10
PostedSep 22, 2026 (1d ago)
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