Head of Risk (Crypto)

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.