Financial Risk Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Product Lead to co-create financial products and value propositions, ensuring they are competitive, investable, and structurally sound.

• Transform partner capabilities and protocol mechanics into appealing products for distribution partners and institutional investors.

• Engage from the initial discovery phase to influence product direction from both market and risk perspectives.

• Evaluate financial, counterparty, liquidity, and interest rate risks across both on-chain and off-chain elements.

• Conduct stress tests on yield strategies and identify vulnerabilities such as bundled leverage, incentive-heavy emissions, and denominator mismatches.

• Model adverse scenarios and analyze outcomes under stress, including protocol exploits, liquidity crises, and partner failures.

• Assist in determining optimal deployment of vault capital across various protocols and partners.

• Establish allocation parameters, track performance against expectations, and highlight deviations from intended assumptions.

• Assess product structures through both financial and strategic perspectives, beyond mere performance metrics.

• Analyze protocols and partners within a financial risk framework as part of a comprehensive partner quality assessment.

• Evaluate not just the attractiveness of potential investments but also the feasibility of building sustainable products on them.

• Develop risk assessment frameworks, financial models, evaluation criteria, and monitoring dashboards from the ground up.

• Create operational structures where none exist and help define the functionality of this new role.

• Assist in the formulation of decision frameworks that guide the evaluation of products and partners over time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in financial product design, risk strategy, or structured finance within fintech, crypto, asset management, or protocol settings.

• Familiarity with DeFi, possessing a deep understanding of protocol mechanics, yield strategies, lending markets, and the structure of tokenized products.

• In-depth expertise in structured product risk, encompassing counterparty risk, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk.

• Clear distinction between product risk and portfolio risk, with practical experience in stress-testing financial products.

• Comprehensive hybrid knowledge of both on-chain and off-chain financial systems, including smart contract risk, on-chain liquidity dynamics, protocol governance risk, and counterparty exposure.

• Capability to analyze how risks interact and compound across both on-chain and off-chain elements during stressful conditions.

• Strong commercial acumen regarding market appeal and downside risk, with an ability to differentiate between headline yield and sustainable product quality.

• Experience in building frameworks, financial models, or evaluation criteria from scratch.

• Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to articulate complex financial concepts in a clear manner.

• A builder mentality with the capacity to create structure and function without established processes.

• Experience, interest, or acumen in AI is a significant advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and unique benefits tailored to foster your growth and well-being.

• Remote work opportunities from Europe or Latin America, along with access to global co-working spaces.

• Work-life balance with paid vacation and sick leave days.

• Continuous learning through access to training programs, language courses, and annual learning sponsorship.

• Engage in unique projects utilizing cutting-edge blockchain technology within a diverse global team.

• Monthly allowance for contractors to support your connectivity and overall well-being.