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title: 'Senior Risk Officer at Blockchain.com'
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# Senior Risk Officer at Blockchain.com

- **Company:** Blockchain.com
- **Location:** Malta
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blockchain/jobs/8360026

## Job description

Blockchain is connecting the world to the future of finance. As the most trusted and fastest-growing global crypto company, it helps millions of people worldwide safely access cryptocurrency. Since its inception in 2011, Blockchain has earned the trust of over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, facilitating over $1 trillion in crypto transactions.

We’re looking for a Senior Risk Officer to help build and run risk management across Blockchain.com. This is a company-wide role: you'll help identify, measure, and manage risk across our business lines, working closely with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, and Operations to strengthen our overall risk posture as we continue to scale and expand our business.

A key part of this role is supporting our expansion into regulated derivatives. Blockchain.com already offers millions of customers a trusted way to buy, sell, and hold crypto, and we're extending those offerings into regulated futures and derivatives markets in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. You'll help build out the risk management program for that and other regulated derivatives entities, working alongside their compliance and risk officers to make sure risk is identified, monitored, and escalated appropriately as the business grows.

You'll report into our broader Risk function and partner with senior leadership across the company to shape how we manage risk—from market, credit, and liquidity risk to operational, technology, and counterparty risk—while bringing specialized attention to the unique risks of our regulated derivatives activities.

If you've built or run risk programs at a financial institution and want to apply that experience across a global crypto platform, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Help design, implement, and administer risk management frameworks, policies, and controls across the company's business lines
- Identify, measure, monitor, and report on key risk categories, including market, credit, liquidity, operational, technology, legal, and counterparty risk
- Establish and maintain risk tolerance limits, monitor for breaches, and escalate issues to senior management and governance committees as needed
- Support the risk management program for the firm's regulated derivatives entities, covering areas such as customer fund segregation, margin and collateral adequacy, capital risk, and settlement risk
- Partner with the business’s compliance function and regulatory counsel to ensure risk controls meet applicable regulatory expectations across the jurisdictions in which the firm operates
- Help oversee risk related to digital asset collateral, including valuation, haircuts, custody arrangements, and liquidation triggers
- Prepare and deliver regular risk exposure reporting to senior management, risk committees, and, where applicable, regulators and self-regulatory organizations
- Partner with Product and Engineering to assess and manage risk as new products and features are launched
- Support business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience planning
- Contribute to the annual review and testing of risk management programs and controls, and help track remediation of identified gaps
- Advise senior leadership on emerging risks as the business and its product offerings evolve, including in fast-moving areas like crypto derivatives

## WHAT YOU WILL NEED

- 8+ years of risk management experience at a financial institution, broker-dealer, futures firm, exchange, or similar regulated entity
- Strong working knowledge of core risk disciplines—market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk—and how they apply in practice
- Experience building, implementing, or enhancing a risk management program or framework
- Excellent judgment and the confidence to make sound risk calls in a fast-moving, evolving business
- Clear, plain-English communication skills–you can explain risk concepts to engineers, executives, and regulators alike
- Comfort working across a wide range of stakeholders and business lines in a company supporting multiple regulated activities

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with futures, derivatives, or FCM risk management, including customer fund segregation, margin, and collateral risk
- Experience supporting a new regulated entity through registration, licensing, or similar regulatory processes
- Familiarity with crypto or digital asset products and their associated risks
- Experience with enterprise risk management programs spanning multiple business lines or entities
- Familiarity with risk considerations across multiple regulatory regimes and jurisdictions

## COMPENSATIONS & PERKS

- Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it.
- Unlimited books policy; order the technical resources you need or simply pick something up from our company library.
- Apple equipment.
- Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company.
- Role based in our Malta office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week

Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

The personal data you provide will be used by Blockchain to process your application. To learn more about your rights, see our [Applicant Privacy notice](https://www.blockchain.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice).

## About Blockchain.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blockchain.com is a leading cryptocurrency financial services company providing a blockchain explorer, wallet, brokerage, and institutional lending platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E funded)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Peter Smith, Benjamin Reeves, Nicolas Cary

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Cryptocurrency / Blockchain Financial Services
- Target customers: B2B (institutions, crypto-native companies, AI agents) and B2C (retail users)
- Mission statement: "Greater human economic freedom" — building the infrastructure for a new financial world that is faster, open, global, and permissionless.

## Products & Services
- **Blockchain Explorer**: The original Bitcoin blockchain explorer, a search engine for blockchain transactions.
- **Blockchain Wallet**: Self-custody cryptocurrency wallet, one of the most widely used in the world.
- **Blockchain Brokerage**: Retail cryptocurrency trading platform.
- **Institutional Markets**: Lending, trading, and data services for financial institutions.
- **API & Data Products**: Tools and analytics for developers and enterprises to build on crypto infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of approximately $600 million (Series E of $110M led by Kingsway in 2023, plus earlier rounds); over $1.1 trillion in volume moved through the platform; 95+ million wallets created.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, VY Capital, GV, Baillie Gifford, Lakestar, Eldridge, Kyle Bass, Access Industries, Moore Strategic Ventures, Rovida Advisors, Coinbase Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding into Nigeria, Turkey, and European markets; opening a hub in Paris; building infrastructure for AI agents; 31+ million clients as of May 2023.

## Competitive Advantages
- First-mover brand (named after the technology itself) with over a decade in crypto.
- Comprehensive product suite covering retail, institutional, and developer needs.
- Massive user base and liquidity (28% of Bitcoin transactions once went through its wallet).
- Trusted by major financial institutions and compliant with international regulations.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening infrastructure for the next era of finance, including support for autonomous AI agents.
- Expanding geographically (Africa, Latin America, Europe) and scaling regulatory compliance.
- Continuing to build a full-stack crypto platform across all market segments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Core values include relentless problem solving, building like an owner, being a team player, communicating with candor, and embracing an infinite mindset.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, crypto bonus, healthcare, paid family leave, equipment budget, unlimited vacation, hybrid working, and regular offsites.
- **Global team**: Offices in London, Buenos Aires, Paris, Dallas, New York, Singapore, and others; hybrid and remote flexibility.
- **Engineering focus**: Heavy investment in back-end, front-end, mobile, security, and site reliability engineering teams; opportunities across trading platforms, institutional products, and consumer apps.

## Sources
1. [blockchain.com/en/about](https://www.blockchain.com/en/about)
2. [blockchain.com/en](https://www.blockchain.com/en)
3. [blockchain.com/careers](https://www.blockchain.com/careers)
4. [wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain.com](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain.com)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/blockchain](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blockchain)

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