Head of Trading Risk Engine

The Company is seeking a Head of Trading Risk Engine to lead the development and operation of the trading risk engine for its new funded trading platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for owning the rules, exposure, hedging, and payout economics that ensure the platform's safe and profitable growth. This hands-on leadership role involves making live risk and trading decisions, working directly with data, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to build the necessary systems. The ideal candidate should have a background in trading risk, dealing, quantitative trading, market making, or a related field, with a strong focus on perpetuals, leverage, margin, liquidation, funding, and market microstructure. Key responsibilities for the Head of Trading Risk Engine include establishing and monitoring risk limits, building reliable exposure and trader behavior monitoring systems, and implementing systematic trader segmentation and routing. The role also involves leading the response to unusual market events, producing risk reports, and being the risk voice in product discussions. The candidate should be adept at identifying and quantifying real risks, and finding practical ways to support the product through better pricing, smarter limits, and targeted monitoring. A successful candidate will have a proven track record of making time-sensitive decisions, be inventive and pragmatic in designing controls, and be calm and decisive during volatile markets and operational incidents.