Director of Trading – Risk

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Finance • Fintech • Security

Securitize is a leading company that specializes in providing platforms and solutions for managing digital securities. The company focuses on helping businesses and individuals create and manage tokenized securities with a significant emphasis on compliance, trust, and transparency. Securitize offers various services including the issuance, administration, and trading of digital securities, all aimed at revolutionizing the market using blockchain technology. Their solutions facilitate the integration of traditional financial sectors with modern technology, ensuring a seamless transition for their clients. Securitize is known for its robust infrastructure that supports digital asset management and makes securities transactions more efficient and accessible.

51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🔐 Security

📋 Description

• Oversee all secondary trading activity (including Securitize Markets’ ATS as well as dealing desk activities) ensuring accurate execution, clearing, and settlement of digital securities transactions. • Manage relationships with broker-dealer partners, custodians, and liquidity providers to optimize market depth and efficiency. • Monitor market performance, spreads, order flow, and trade anomalies to ensure integrity and stability. • Implement policies and controls around trade reporting, order management, and reconciliation across blockchain and traditional systems. • Develop and maintain a comprehensive market, credit, counterparty and operational risk framework tailored to digital securities trading. • Monitor and manage exposure across counterparties, issuers, and trading participants. • Lead stress testing, liquidity modeling, and scenario analysis for both digital and fiat operations. • Establish internal thresholds, alerts, and escalation processes for abnormal trading or liquidity events. • Partner with Compliance and Legal teams to ensure adherence to SEC and FINRA requirements related to agency/principal trading, ATS operations, trade surveillance, and best execution. • Maintain policies and documentation required for audits, regulatory exams, and risk assessments. • Oversee trade surveillance programs to detect and prevent market manipulation, insider trading, or anomalous activity. • Serve as a subject matter expert for risk and trading compliance matters in regulatory reviews and board reporting. • Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to enhance trading systems, order routing, and blockchain settlement processes. • Partner with Finance to align risk and capital frameworks, collateral management, and treasury operations. • Work with Issuer and Client Support teams to ensure transparency and reliability across all market activities. • Provide market insights to leadership, informing liquidity strategy, asset onboarding, and product expansion. • Identify opportunities for trading optimization, new market structures, and tokenized asset categories. • Stay ahead of emerging market regulations, technologies, and competitive trends within digital securities and blockchain-based trading.

🎯 Requirements

• 8–12 years of experience in trading operations, risk management, or market structure, ideally within a Broker-Dealer, ATS, or digital asset exchange. • Requisite FINRA licensing (S7, S24, S55/57 at a minimum). • Deep understanding of securities trading workflows — order management, execution, clearing, and settlement. • Hands-on experience building or managing risk frameworks for trading environments (market, credit, liquidity, operational). • Strong grasp of regulatory regimes under SEC, FINRA, and NFA. • Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives that balance growth and compliance in a fast-moving financial technology context. • Excellent analytical, quantitative, and decision-making skills. • Clear communicator with experience engaging regulators, auditors, and executive stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) – Promoting a healthy work-life balance. • Equity Grant Opportunities – Share in the success and future growth of the company. • Remote Work Flexibility – Work from anywhere while staying connected with a dynamic and collaborative team. • Comprehensive Insurance Coverage – 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family. • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Secure your financial future with employer-sponsored savings.