Head of Market Risk (Decibel)

The Head of Market Risk (Decibel) is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing and enhancing the firm’s risk management framework across market, trading, and exchange operational risks. This individual will ensure robust risk controls, real-time monitoring, and crisis response mechanisms while working closely with engineering, trading, and executive teams. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in derivatives risk modeling, crypto markets, and financial engineering, with prior experience at top-tier trading firms, exchanges, or investment banks. Key Responsibilities include continuously improve and manage the firm’s risk engine, develop and refine market risk models, identify emerging risk exposures, collaborate with engineers to design and execute stress tests, build and enhance real-time monitoring tools, establish automated alerting systems, maintain clear documentation of risk models, define and adjust max leverage and continuously validate model accuracy.