Head of Trading Risk

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Bybit

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

👥 B2C

💰 Debt financing on 2025-03

Crypto • Finance • B2C

Bybit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that simplifies crypto trading and offers welcome bonuses for new users. The provided text shows site navigation, promo text “Your crypto journey, simplified”, trading pairs like XAUT/USDT, and mentions derivatives and hot coins, indicating spot and derivatives trading services.

📋 Description

• We are looking for a senior leader to head our newly formed Trading Risk team. • This is a critical leadership role created as part of a strategic reorganization to consolidate all business-risk-related functions across our trading verticals into a single, dedicated team. • The Head of Trading Risk will own end-to-end business risk operations and logic design across multiple product lines, reporting directly to senior leadership. • Lead and grow the Trading Risk team, setting the strategic vision for business risk management across the organization. • Build a high-performing, risk-focused culture with strong accountability and ownership. • Define team OKRs, establish performance standards, and drive continuous improvement. • Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to embed risk thinking into product development. • Own business risk operations and logic design across multiple product lines including spot trading, derivatives, and lending/earn products. • Design and maintain risk control frameworks, alert systems, and escalation protocols for each product line. • Oversee real-time risk monitoring systems and ensure timely incident response.

🎯 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 • Strong quantitative background — ability to design and validate risk models, parameters, and control logic • Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex risk concepts for product and business stakeholders • Proven ability to build and scale risk teams from the ground up or through significant transformation • AI-first mindset — actively leverages AI/ML tools and techniques to enhance risk detection, automate workflows, and improve decision-making efficiency • Programming proficiency in Python and/or C++ — able to build risk models, prototype monitoring tools, and work directly with quantitative codebases • Fluent in English; proficiency in Mandarin Chinese is strongly preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning. • Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation. • Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world. • Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company. • Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.