Senior Risk Manager

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎲 Risk

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Polymarket

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

₿ Crypto

🎲 Gambling

💸 Finance

Crypto • Gambling • Finance

Polymarket is a prediction market platform that enables users to wager on the outcomes of various events, including political elections, sports contests, and cryptocurrency price movements. Operating as a decentralized betting service, it allows participants to buy and trade shares in event outcomes, providing a unique way to engage with and speculate on future scenarios. Polymarket combines elements from both traditional markets and blockchain technology, creating an innovative environment for users to make predictions and potentially profit from their insights.

📋 Description

• Build the risk framework. Define and own the parameters that will govern how the exchange operates: max open interest, position size limits, leverage tiers, and margin requirements across account types. • Design liquidation and insurance fund protocols. Establish the processes and infrastructure for managing liquidations and offloading risk through hedging or counterparty relationships when needed. • Build risk monitoring infrastructure. Design the systems and tooling that will give the team continuous visibility into account health, exposure concentration, and exchange solvency. • Establish operating protocols. Define the playbooks for how the team responds to stressed market conditions, large position buildups, and potential exchange dislocations. • Build your own tooling. Use Python, SQL, or whatever you need to build internal tools for evaluating risk and staying ahead of developing exposures.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep trading experience with a background at a trading firm or exchange • Hands-on experience managing liquidations and navigating crisis moments in live markets • Strong grasp of how the major crypto exchanges operate • In-depth knowledge of margin mechanics, funding rates, index price, and mark price across crypto derivatives exchanges • Ability to act quickly and decisively under pressure with real money on the line • Strong counterparty relationships and comfort working with trading firms to offload risk • (Plus) Proficiency in Python, SQL, or other data analysis tools for building risk monitoring infrastructure

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity • Unlimited PTO • Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage • 401k match • Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories