Senior Risk Officer

About SCRYPT

SCRYPT is the operating system for digital assets.

Banks, asset managers, family offices, fintechs, and payment service providers run on SCRYPT - for trading, custody, asset management, and settlement. Regulated in Switzerland, operating globally, built for scale.

About the Role

Swiss-regulated. Multi-licensed. Institutional grade. We operate globally - a group structure spanning multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. We move real capital across real counterparties every day - OTC trading, payments, custody, asset management. Risk isn’t a back-office function here. It’s the reason institutions trust us with their money across every corridor we operate in.

We need someone who owns risk end-to-end. Counterparty exposure, trading limits, settlement risk, banking relationships, payment flows, asset management safeguards - across a multi-licensed group. You build the frameworks, monitor the positions, and flag what others miss.

This is not a compliance role. Not a second-line checkbox exercise. You sit at the table when trading decisions are made, when new counterparties are onboarded, when new products go live. If you write risk policies that nobody reads, stop here. If you build risk frameworks that change how the business operates, keep reading.

The Bar

Small team, senior bar, AI-native by default. We hire builders who ship, not managers who maintain. One great hire beats three average ones, so we hold the bar even when the seat is empty. Ownership from week one. Velocity from day one. If you need a long runway before you contribute, this isn't the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Exposure oversight - real-time visibility across counterparties, banking partners, and client positions. Build and maintain the dashboards, limits, and escalation triggers that keep the firm inside its risk appetite.

• Trading risk - pre-trade and post-trade controls across OTC and spot. Position limits, hedging discipline, market risk monitoring. Ensure speed never comes at the cost of control.

• Counterparty and banking risk - ongoing assessment of counterparty creditworthiness, concentration limits, bank exposure, and settlement risk. Act before it matters.

• Payments and settlement risk - FX settlement, stablecoin flows, fiat rails. Map, measure, and build the controls around every leg of every transaction.

• Asset management risk - custody risk, operational risk, liquidity risk across client portfolios. Ensure every asset under management has the right safeguards and reporting.

• New frameworks - We're scaling. That means new products, new jurisdictions, new counterparties. You don't just maintain existing risk controls - you design the ones we don't have yet.

Job Requirements

Experience

Risk management in financial services. You’ve run or built risk frameworks at a bank, broker, trading firm, or fintech. Digital assets, FX, equities, commodities - asset class matters less than the rigor you bring. This is non-negotiable.

Counterparty and credit risk expertise

You understand exposure netting, margin frameworks, concentration risk, and how to assess counterparties that don’t have a Moody’s rating.

Trading risk fluency

You know what a position blowup looks like before it happens. Market risk, liquidity risk, limit structures - you’ve built or operated these in a live trading environment.

Quantitative confidence

You model, stress-test, and scenario-plan. Excel is your baseline, not your ceiling.

Regulatory awareness

FINMA, MiCA, Swiss banking regulation - you understand the regulatory context and design risk controls that satisfy it without paralysing the business.

Communication under pressure

You explain risk to traders, to the board, and to regulators. Different audiences, same clarity.

Languages

Fluent English required. German or French a strong plus.

Nice to Have

•      Minimum 2–3 years of experience in crypto or digital asset markets.

•      Background in payments risk, correspondent banking, or settlement infrastructure.

•      Familiarity with blockchain analytics or on-chain risk monitoring tools.

•      Experience building risk frameworks from scratch at a scaling firm

Why choose SCRYPT

•      Real ownership of a function - not a slot in someone else’s org chart.

•      A team where AI tooling is native, not a “transformation initiative.”

•      Direct access to founders, board, and clients. Flat hierarchy, no middle layers.

•      Meaningful equity in a Series A institutional crypto company building toward unicorn scale.

•      Swiss-anchored, globally operating - regulatory rigor where it matters, volume where it counts.

Next Steps

This role is the risk function at SCRYPT. You won’t inherit a team or a legacy framework - you’ll build it. Every exposure limit, every counterparty assessment, every risk control across the firm carries your judgement. That’s the weight of it - and the opportunity.

If you’re ready to own that, send your CV and cover letter to careers