zerohash provides API-first technology and turnkey regulatory infrastructure to launch and scale compliant crypto and stablecoin products quickly and securely.
About the role
zerohash moves money and digital assets for banks, brokerages and payment companies, on infrastructure that has to work 24/7. When something breaks, partners and their customers feel it. We're hiring our first dedicated Operational Risk Manager to make sure we learn from every failure and fix the causes, not just the symptoms. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in operational risk, including 2+ years in a dedicated OpRisk role at a regulated financial institution or a regulated fintech, payments or crypto firm. 7+ years is typical for this role
- You've built or substantially owned an RCSA methodology, not just participated in one, and produced results for a risk committee or board
- A specific story of connecting a pattern across incidents that were treated as isolated, and driving a structural fix against resistance
- Experience working with Engineering or Technology teams on incidents, postmortems or technology risk. You can read a technical incident writeup without being an engineer
- Program-level loss event management experience: taxonomy and database design, and root cause analysis
- Experience quantifying operational scenarios. FAIR is ideal, a comparable quantitative method you can translate to FAIR is fine
More about this role
zerohash moves money and digital assets for banks, brokerages and payment companies, on infrastructure that has to work 24/7. When something breaks, partners and their customers feel it. We're hiring our first dedicated Operational Risk Manager to make sure we learn from every failure and fix the causes, not just the symptoms.
You'll build the operational risk discipline from the ground up: the framework, the loss event database, the RCSA methodology and the scenario program. You'll sit inside the Engineering incident lifecycle, and report to [the Head of Risk], with direct access to the CRO and Risk Committee. Our risk program is quantitative and built on FAIR, so your work will be measured in dollars and likelihoods, not red-amber-green.
This role is for someone who has noticed a pattern others missed and got the organization to fix it. If your past work was mostly running assessments on a schedule, it is probably not the right fit.
Operational risk is bottom-up and event-driven; enterprise risk is top-down and strategic. Separating them properly is how institutional-grade risk programs are built, and you will own the first of the two.
- Design and implement the operational risk...
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