RootstockLabs Ltd. - Director of Risk Management
Requirements
• 10+ years in risk management at asset managers, funds, banks, trading firms or digital asset businesses, including several years leading a risk function. • Deep capital, asset and risk management experience across BTC, digital assets and traditional finance, including DeFi protocol risk. • Strong financial modelling and risk analysis skills (stress testing, scenario analysis, VaR) across traditional and digital instruments, with hands-on Python, R or SQL. • Hands-on experience designing operational risk controls across the trade lifecycle, custody and treasury for OTC, bilateral and exchange-traded activity. • Experience reviewing and negotiating risk terms in fund, OTC and bilateral documents, and working within fund regulatory and compliance requirements. • Proven leadership of high-performing teams, and the ability to explain complex risk clearly to boards, investors and regulators.
Responsibilities
• Risk framework and governance • Design and own Rootstock Capital's risk framework: risk appetite; exposure, concentration and leverage limits; liquidity buckets; collateral haircuts; margin and drawdown triggers; and escalation procedures. • Take risk policies and limits through board approval, and report regularly to the board and investment committee. • Give independent risk sign-off on new strategies, products, venues and counterparties before launch. • Risk modelling and analysis • Build the models and analytics that measure market, credit, counterparty, liquidity and protocol risk across traditional and digital positions, including VaR, scenario analysis and stress testing. • Stress-test the portfolio against BTC price shocks, liquidity crises, venue or counterparty failure, depeg events, protocol exploits and liquidation cascades. • Model and evaluate complex transactions (secured lending, repo, basis and derivatives, structured products) and assess how risks interact and compound across on-chain and off-chain components. • Monitor positions and exposures daily, and flag early when outcomes drift from limits or assumptions. • Counterparty and credit risk • Lead counterparty, venue and protocol due diligence: creditworthiness, custody arrangements, and smart-contract, bridge, oracle and governance risk. • Set and monitor counterparty limits, collateral eligibility and margin terms. • Legal and transaction documentation • Review and negotiate the risk terms in fund, OTC and bilateral documents (ISDA/CSA, lending and repo agreements, collateral and margin terms, termination events and close-out provisions) with the Fund Asset Manager and legal counsel. • Operational risk, controls and compliance • Design operational risk controls across the trade lifecycle, settlement, reconciliation, custody and treasury that scale with both traditional and digital asset activity. • Shape the processes that connect risk, execution and finance across digital and traditional OTC, bilateral and exchange-traded transactions. • Work with compliance, legal, the fund administrator and auditors on regulatory obligations, audits and reporting. • Product delivery • Product delivery • Work with the Fund Asset Manager and commercial, technology, legal and compliance teams to take new products from idea to launch, making sure they are investable and structurally sound.
Benefits
• At RootstockLabs, we don’t just offer a job, we offer a community. Here’s what you can expect when you join us: • Competitive compensation package and unique benefits designed to support your growth and well-being. • 100% Remote Work from Europe & Latin America, with access to global CoWorking spaces. • 100% Remote Work • Work-Life Balance: Paid vacation and sick leave days • Work-Life Balance: • Continuous Learning: Access to training programs, language courses, and learning sponsorship annually. • Continuous Learning: • Unique Projects: Work with cutting-edge blockchain technology in a global, diverse team. • Unique Projects: • RootstockLabs is a key contributor to Rootstock, Bitcoin's Financial Infrastructure for lending, yield, and onchain capital markets. We build and commercialize the institutional infrastructure that turns Bitcoin into productive capital. • What we do: Develop and commercialize Bitcoin-backed lending, tokenized real-world assets, and onchain financial strategies • Proof it works: 200+ dApps live on Rootstock, from BTCFi protocols like Sushiswap and Oku to institutional names like Mercado Bitcoin, Animoca Brands, and Paystand • Proof it works:
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