Risk Manager (Crypto Fund / DeFi & Quant Strategies)
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Overview
EMCD is seeking a Senior Risk Manager for its Crypto Fund focusing on DeFi and Quant Strategies. This remote full-time role offers a salary range of $92,000 – $155,250 USD. EMCD is a global crypto infrastructure and investment platform operating one of the world's leading Bitcoin mining pools and a growing ecosystem of institutional-grade crypto financial products. As we continue expanding our investment division, we are building a hybrid crypto fund combining liquid trading strategies, DeFi yield generation, and long-term venture investments across the digital asset ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- •Monitor market, liquidity, counterparty, and operational risks across the fund's strategies and portfolios
- •Oversee leverage, margin utilization, collateral exposure, and liquidation risks
- •Monitor DeFi strategies including yield farming, liquidity provision, staking, looping, and delta-neutral structures
- •Assess counterparty and infrastructure risks related to exchanges, custodians, brokers, and DeFi protocols
- •Develop and improve portfolio risk frameworks, limits, stress-testing methodologies, and escalation procedures
- •Build monitoring dashboards, reporting systems, and risk alert processes
- •Work closely with PMs and trading teams on risk-adjusted portfolio decisions
- •Participate in new strategy reviews and investment approvals from a risk perspective
- •Contribute to operational resilience and incident-response procedures
- •Support the evolution of the fund's institutional risk governance framework
What We Offer
- •Remote-first environment with flexible working conditions
- •Opportunity to help build the risk function of a growing institutional crypto fund
- •Direct exposure to liquid markets, DeFi, and venture strategies
- •High ownership and strategic impact
- •Fast-moving international crypto environment
- •Compensation in USDT
- •Professional growth within one of the leading crypto ecosystems
What We're Looking For
- •Strong experience in risk management within:
- •crypto hedge funds
- •proprietary trading firms
- •crypto exchanges
- •quantitative trading environments
- •institutional digital asset platforms
- •Deep understanding of crypto markets and DeFi mechanics
- •Strong knowledge of:
- •derivatives
- •leverage and margin systems
- •liquidation mechanics
- •portfolio exposure management
- •stress testing
- •VaR and quantitative risk methodologies
- •Experience working directly with trading desks or portfolio managers
- •Strong analytical and quantitative mindset
- •Understanding of market structure and liquidity dynamics in crypto markets
- •Ability to operate effectively under high volatility and fast-changing market conditions
- •Python / SQL / data analytics skills are considered a strong advantage
- •Experience with on-chain analytics and protocol risk assessment is a plus