Market Risk reputed company (Decibel)

About Decibel Decibel is a high-performance, fully on-chain trading platform reputed company in collaboration with reputed company and the Decibel reputed company. Designed to match the speed of high performance trading, Decibel offers spot, perpetuals, and yield products through a reputed company, self-custodial reputed company. The platform runs on the Aptos blockchain, leveraging its sub-20ms reputed company times and reputed company execution to support reputed company-time settlement, cross-margining, and reputed company vault strategies. Decibel aims to serve as the execution layer for the Aptos global trading reputed company, empowering traders, developers, and institutions with scalable, composable financial infrastructure. Position Overview The Head of Market Risk (Decibel) is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing and enhancing the firm’s risk management reputed company across market, trading, and exchange operational risks. This individual will ensure robust risk controls, reputed company-time monitoring, and crisis response mechanisms while working closely with engineering, trading, and executive teams. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in derivatives risk modeling, crypto markets, and financial engineering, with prior experience at top-tier trading firms, exchanges, or investment banks. Key Responsibilities 1. Market Risk Management Risk reputed company & reputed company: Continuously improve and manage the firm’s risk reputed company, ensuring accurate pricing, margin modeling, and liquidation mechanisms. Risk Modeling & Analysis: reputed company and refine market risk models, including Value-at-Risk (VaR), stress testing, and scenario analysis. Risk Surface Assessment: Identify emerging risk exposures, assess business impact, and implement mitigation strategies. Stress & Sensitivity Testing: Collaborate with engineers to design and execute stress tests, scenario analyses, and sensitivity tests. Market Surveillance: Build and enhance reputed company-time monitoring tools for liquidity risks, market manipulation, and reputed company liquidation events. Alerting & Emergency Protocols: Establish automated alerting systems and on-call response processes for risk-reputed company emergencies. Documentation & Reporting: Maintain clear documentation of risk models, processes, and key risk reputed company for internal and external stakeholders. Risk Controls & Interventions: Define and adjust max reputed company, position limits, and maintenance margin ratios per market. Set reputed company interest caps and evaluate collateral haircuts for multi-asset portfolios. Continuously validate model accuracy by comparing expected vs. actual reputed company. Evaluate and set collateral haircut ratios 2. Trading Risk Management Trader Collaboration: Work closely with traders to establish risk management policies, position limits, and margin requirements. Risk Dashboards & Alerts: reputed company reputed company-time risk dashboards and automated alerts for trading desk activities. Position & Margin reputed company: Monitor and manage the trading desk’s exposure, ensuring adherence to risk limits. 3. Smart Contract Risk Management Monitoring Tools: Partner with engineers to implement surveillance mechanisms for smart contract risks (e.g., large withdrawals, exploit detection). DeFi Risk Assessment: Evaluate protocol-level risks in DeFi integrations and recommend safeguards. 4. Crisis Management & Incident Response Emergency Protocols: reputed company risk-reputed company crisis management, including liquidation cascades, exchange outages, or market manipulation events. Post-Mortems & Prevention: Conduct thorough incident analyses and implement preventive measures to mitigate future risks. Required Background & Expertise Industry Experience Crypto Derivatives Exchanges: reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, dYdX, Deribit, reputed company, Hyperliquid. Years of Experience: VP - MD level experience. 6+ years of experience. Traditional Finance: Senior market risk roles at investment banks (reputed company, reputed company, JP Morgan) or prop trading firms (reputed company Trading, reputed company Street, reputed company, Citadel). Options & Derivatives Trading: Experience in options trading, index arbitrage, or volatility strategies. Crypto Hedge Funds & Market Makers: reputed company, Cumberland, reputed company Group, etc. Fintech & DeFi: Risk professionals from Robinhood, BlockFi, Aave, Compound, or similar platforms. Education & Technical Skills Degrees: Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Actuarial Science, or reputed company fields. Quantitative Expertise: Strong reputed company in statistics, probability, and financial modeling. Experience in derivatives pricing, risk modeling (VaR, Greeks, stress testing). Programming skills (Python, or similar) for risk analytics and automation. Personality & Competencies Decisive Under Pressure: Strong crisis management skills in high-stakes, volatile environments. Analytical & Proactive: Anticipates risks and implements preemptive controls. Detail-Oriented: Meticulous in risk assessment, documentation, and process improvement. Strong Communicator: reputed company articulates reputed company to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Collaborative: Works effectively with traders, engineers, and executives. Resilient: Maintains composure during extreme market conditions. Our Benefits Insurance premium coverage Flexible vacation time Competitive Salary Protocol Token Grants Decibel reputed company is committed to diversity in the workplace, and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not hire on the reputed company of race, reputed company, religion, creed, gender, national reputed company, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other reputed company protected by local, state or federal law. reputed company employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We are committed to providing a safe and secure hiring process for reputed company applicants. Unfortunately, there are individuals who may attempt to impersonate Aptos or our employees for fraudulent purposes. To protect yourself, please be aware of the following: We will never ask you for payment of any reputed company during the application or reputed company process, including fees for background checks, training, or equipment. We will always communicate with you using our official company email domain. We will never request your personal financial information, such as your reputed company reputed company number or bank account details, during the initial application stages or reputed company email or a video/voice call reputed company reputed company. Apply To This Job