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Head of Risk (Crypto) [Brazil-based]
About the Company:
We are one of the world's earliest and most established digital asset platforms, serving tens of millions of users across global markets. Consistently ranked among the top exchanges worldwide, we support a comprehensive suite of trading and wealth management products across thousands of digital assets. With thousands of employees spanning key financial hubs globally, we operate with a remote-first, high-autonomy culture that attracts talent who thrive in fast-moving, intellectually demanding environments. We are building the financial infrastructure of the next era of the internet — and we're looking for exceptional finance professionals to help shape it.
The Role:
We are in search of a business-oriented Head of Risk (Crypto) to lead the overall risk management function for our Brazil entity.
This role focuses on end-to-end risk management across trading, financial crime, and product risk, while ensuring the company operates within its defined risk appetite while actively supporting business growth.
Unlike traditional compliance-heavy roles, this position is about risk ownership: identifying exposures, calibrating tolerance, and driving real-time control execution. We're looking for someone who understands that well-designed risk frameworks are a business enabler, not a brake.
We welcome candidates with a strong crypto or digital asset background. We are equally open to risk leaders from traditional financial institutions, capital markets, fintech, or payments companies who bring deep, transferable expertise and a genuine appetite to operate in a more dynamic, high-growth environment.
What You'll Do:
Establish and lead the company's enterprise-wide risk management framework, covering trading and market risk, product risk, financial crime risk, and operational risk.Define, review, and continuously optimise the risk appetite framework in alignment with overall business strategy.Monitor risk activities to ensure alignment with internal risk policies, business objectives, and applicable Brazilian regulatory expectations, and other relevant regulatory authorities.Partner with senior leadership and the Board to embed risk-informed thinking into strategic decision-making.Build and enhance risk control mechanisms across transaction monitoring and risk indicators, market surveillance controls, and product risk assessment frameworks.Identify and stay ahead of emerging risks in trading, product design, and operations, and lead mitigation strategies.Strengthen internal control systems and drive effective risk governance across the organisation.Support the company's ongoing regulatory engagement and risk governance as Brazil's digital asset regulatory framework continues to evolve.
What We're Looking For:
10+ years of risk management experience within crypto, financial institutions, capital markets, fintech, payments, or digital asset businesses.Deep expertise in enterprise risk management, including risk appetite frameworks, governance, and internal controls.Strong understanding of trading, transaction, and financial crime risks, with the ability to balance effective risk management against commercial objectives.Ability to translate risk frameworks into practical controls and work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations to implement them.Proven track record operating at or reporting to Executive Committee and Board level.Strategic thinker with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and embed a strong risk culture across the organisation spanning across operational, market and liquidity risk.Expert understanding of Brazilian regulatory expectations relating to financial institutions and digital asset service providers.Crypto or digital asset experience is strongly preferred, but we also welcome candidates from traditional financial services with strong transferable risk expertise and a genuine interest in the digital asset sector.Functional knowledge of digital asset or digital token listing processes is preferred.