Head of Trading Risk

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Job Summary

Lead Bybit’s newly formed Trading Risk team, consolidating business-risk functions across trading verticals into a single organization. Own end-to-end risk operations and logic design across spot, derivatives (futures, options, CFD, perps), and loan/earn products. Set team strategy and OKRs, define risk control frameworks and escalation protocols, oversee real-time risk monitoring, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to embed risk thinking into product development.

Location: Dubai

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Capital Markets, Trading & Quant

Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and grow the Trading Risk team, setting the strategic vision for business risk management.
•Build a risk-focused culture with strong accountability and ownership, define team OKRs, performance standards, and continuous improvement.
•Own business risk operations and logic design across spot trading, derivatives (futures, options, CFD, perps), and loan/earn products.
•Design and maintain risk control frameworks, alert systems, and escalation protocols for each product line.
•Oversee real-time risk monitoring systems, define and enforce risk parameters, lead post-mortem analysis on risk incidents, and drive remediation with Engineering/Tech.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Learning Budget

Key Requirements

•8+ years of experience in risk management within financial services, fintech, or crypto/digital assets.
•3+ years in a leadership role managing risk teams (team size 5+).
•Deep understanding of derivatives risk (futures, options, perpetual swaps, CFDs), including margin models, liquidation engines, and settlement processes.
•Experience with multi-product risk management covering at least 3 of: spot, derivatives, lending, earn/yield products.
•Programming proficiency in Python and/or C++ and a strong quantitative background to design and validate risk models, parameters, and control logic.

Experience:8+ yearsFintechCryptoDigital assets

Skills:LeadershipCommunicationRisk thinkingQuantitative analysisStakeholder management

Languages:EnglishMandarin Chinese

Tech Stack:PythonC++AI/ML

Company Brief

Bybit

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Bybit

1 week ago

Head of Trading Risk

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 2 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Dubai

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Capital Markets, Trading & Quant

Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and grow the Trading Risk team, setting the strategic vision for business risk management.
•Build a risk-focused culture with strong accountability and ownership, define team OKRs, performance standards, and continuous improvement.
•Own business risk operations and logic design across spot trading, derivatives (futures, options, CFD, perps), and loan/earn products.
•Design and maintain risk control frameworks, alert systems, and escalation protocols for each product line.
•Oversee real-time risk monitoring systems, define and enforce risk parameters, lead post-mortem analysis on risk incidents, and drive remediation with Engineering/Tech.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Learning Budget

Key Requirements

•8+ years of experience in risk management within financial services, fintech, or crypto/digital assets.
•3+ years in a leadership role managing risk teams (team size 5+).
•Deep understanding of derivatives risk (futures, options, perpetual swaps, CFDs), including margin models, liquidation engines, and settlement processes.
•Experience with multi-product risk management covering at least 3 of: spot, derivatives, lending, earn/yield products.
•Programming proficiency in Python and/or C++ and a strong quantitative background to design and validate risk models, parameters, and control logic.

Experience:8+ yearsFintechCryptoDigital assets

Skills:LeadershipCommunicationRisk thinkingQuantitative analysisStakeholder management

Languages:EnglishMandarin Chinese

Tech Stack:PythonC++AI/ML

Company Brief

Bybit

Website