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title: 'Risk Manager  - Centralized Exchange at Sei Labs'
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# Risk Manager  - Centralized Exchange at Sei Labs

- **Company:** Sei Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sei-labs/bac2dbe4-d4c7-4313-be40-1289ebca4a1e

## Job description

## About the Company

Sei Labs is a unicorn startup based in NYC building Sei, the fastest EVM blockchain in the world designed for trading. We're building a decentralized Wall Street. We're a lean, remote-first team that ships fast, takes full ownership of outcomes and builds from first principles. Sei Labs is incubating a new US regulated exchange from zero to one. You'd be the first hire in your function, with the speed and ownership of a startup and the backing of an established company and an S-tier team (Robinhood, Coinbase, Google, etc.)

## About the role

As our initial Risk Manager, you will be the day-to-day lead of the FCM's independent Risk Management Unit and will administer, maintain and enhance its Risk Management Program. You will establish and monitor risk limits, assess customer and firm exposures, conduct stress testing, oversee margin and liquidation risk, and escalate material risk matters directly to senior management. You will work closely with Finance, Operations, Technology and Compliance while maintaining the independence required of the RMU.

## What you'll do

- Risk Management Program: help write and maintain the FCM's Risk Management Program under CFTC Regulation 1.11, including risk appetite, tolerance limits, methodologies and escalation paths.
- Limits and monitoring: set and monitor pre-trade and intraday limits for market, credit, margin, concentration and volume exposure. Detect breaches and escalate them promptly to senior management.
- Margin, credit and liquidation risk: Develop and monitor the FCM's customer-margin and risk-limit framework, including house margin add-ons where appropriate, customer credit and concentration limits, deficit monitoring, liquidation thresholds and escalation procedures for accounts experiencing adverse market movements.
- Stress testing: run stress tests, scenario analysis and exposure aggregation across customers, products and venues.
- Liquidity, capital and counterparties: monitor liquidity, capital, and counterparty and depository exposure with Finance. Provide risk oversight of customer-fund segregation and residual interest.
- Settlement and operational risk: Assess clearing, settlement, contract-expiration, technology, data and third-party risks, including controls around order entry, position management and settlement. Where applicable, assess risks associated with contracts approaching expiration or final settlement.
- Risk governance and reporting: Prepare quarterly Risk Exposure Reports for senior management, as well as interim reports when material changes in risk exposure occur, and coordinate required regulatory filings. Track recommended RMP changes and remediation items through completion.
- New business: assess the risk of new products, venues and clearing relationships before launch.

## What you bring

- 4–8 years in market, credit or margin risk at an FCM, clearing firm, DCO, broker-dealer or trading firm.
- Strong command of futures and derivatives margining (SPAN or similar), exposure measurement and liquidation practices.
- Hands-on experience with limits, stress testing and risk reporting to senior management.
- Working knowledge of FCM risk obligations, including Regulation 1.11, segregation and capital.
- Strong quantitative and data skills (Python, SQL or advanced Excel).
- Clear written communication for governance and regulatory reporting.
- The independence and judgment to challenge the business when needed.
- Comfort building process from scratch in a fast-moving 0-to-1 environment.
- A clean regulatory record, with no NFA or FINRA disciplinary history.

## Nice to have

- Experience at a retail-facing or technology-first FCM.
- Perpetual futures, 24/7 markets, crypto or stablecoin collateral experience.
- Exposure to helping build or reviewing a Risk Management Program, or to CFTC/NFA exams.
- FRM, CFA or similar certification.

## About Sei Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sei Labs is a product-driven research and development lab building the high-performance Sei blockchain, the fastest EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed for digital asset trading and global markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; $35M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Jeff F. (Co-Founder), Jayendra Jog (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Blockchain Infrastructure, Cryptocurrency, FinTech/DeFi
- **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, trading firms, decentralized exchanges, and consumer-facing Web3 application builders
- **Mission**: To build category-defining products and global-scale blockchain infrastructure, unlocking a new design space for consumer-facing applications and onboarding the next billion users into a vibrant ecosystem.

## Products & Services
- **[Sei Blockchain (Sei Network)]**: The fastest EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, purpose-built for trading. Features sub-400ms finality, 200K TPS throughput, and the proprietary Autobahn consensus engine. It is designed to support stablecoins, payments, DeFi, tokenized assets, and AI agent economies.
- **[Monaco Trading]**: A quantitative trading platform and infrastructure project incubated by Sei Labs.
- **Incubations Program**: An internal arm that works with founders and teams dedicated to open access and programmable commerce, helping launch new blockchain-native products.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**:
    - **Annual Revenue**: $1.5M (estimated by LinkedIn).
    - **Total Funding**: $35M across 2 rounds.
        - Seed Round (Aug 2022): $5M from 4 investors.
        - Venture Round (Apr 2023): $30M from 10 investors including Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Hudson River Trading, and Flow Traders.
        - Venture Round (Nov 2023): Additional round from 1 investor.
- **Growth Signals**: The Sei blockchain has processed over **5 billion total transactions**. The team has grown ~13.7% year-over-year to 54 employees. Active job postings increased 120% month-over-month, signaling strong hiring momentum. The network is integrated with leading developer tooling and is backed by global infrastructure partners including Visa (via the Sei Foundation).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Performance Moats**: The Sei blockchain holds a performance advantage with sub-400ms finality and 200K TPS, significantly faster than most competing Layer 1 chains. Its Autobahn consensus mechanism (multi-proposer architecture) provides a 50x throughput improvement over Tendermint-based chains.
- **Trading-Specific Design**: Unlike general-purpose blockchains, Sei is purpose-built for digital asset markets with native order book optimizations, making it the go-to infrastructure for trading applications.
- **Top-Tier Backing**: Backed by elite institutional investors from both traditional finance (Jump Crypto, Hudson River Trading, Flow Traders) and crypto-native funds (Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling to "Giga"**: The team is actively developing "Sei Giga," a next-gen upgrade aiming to support the world's largest payment, trading, and consumer AI platforms simultaneously without bottlenecks.
- **Ecosystem Expansion**: Focused on onboarding EVM developers via full compatibility, builder grants, and a thriving community. Key focus areas include Stablecoins & Payments, DeFi, Tokenized Assets, and AI/Agentic Economies.
- **Global Markets**: Positioning the Sei blockchain as "The Onchain Standard for Global Finance," targeting institutional adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Team & Culture**: Described as a "product-driven research & development lab" staffed by veterans from Google, Goldman Sachs, Robinhood, Nvidia, and Databricks. The culture is heavily technical and research-oriented, with a focus on open-source development.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/On-site. Offices in **San Francisco (HQ)** and **New York City**. Job listings specify "Hybrid" or "Remote or Hybrid," indicating flexibility, though most roles require some in-office presence.
- **Notable Perks**: Work at the frontier of blockchain scalability and speed. Employees get to work on extremely high-impact infrastructure problems (consensus, storage, trading systems) that handle billions of transactions.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on R&D. The team is split ~18% technical (engineers, researchers) with active recruiting for Protocol Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Quantitative Developers. The work is on "category-defining" global-scale blockchain infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [Official Sei Labs Website](https://www.seilabs.io/)
2. [Sei Network (Blockchain Product)](https://www.sei.io/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seilabs)
4. [Built In Profile & Reviews](https://builtin.com/company/sei-labs)
5. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sei-labs)

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