О вакансии
Aave is hiring a Head of Risk to lead the Risk team and own risk management, governance, assessments, and protocol-risk processes for its decentralized lending and borrowing protocol.
Responsibilities
- Lead and build the Risk team, setting direction, priorities, and standards.
- Own and evolve risk management frameworks and policies.
- Set review standards and provide independent challenge for product-specific risk frameworks.
- Establish model-risk and data-governance standards for material quantitative models and external risk inputs.
- Review product and engineering controls against approved risk requirements, including gaps, exceptions, and incident response.
- Establish standards for external risk providers and data dependencies.
- Own governance, approval thresholds, and escalation processes for protocol-risk parameters.
- Approve collateral onboarding decisions and risk assessments.
- Review liquidation performance and recommend improvements to liquidation mechanisms.
- Lead risk governance processes and present risk analyses to the DAO.
- Monitor market structure changes and their implications for protocol risk.
- Ensure the quality, independence, and timeliness of Risk assessments, with explicit residual risks, decision owners, and escalation paths.
Conditions
Full-time, onsite position in London.
Compensation is negotiable.
Company
Aave is an open source, non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lending and borrowing.
Nice to have
- Experience working directly with DeFi governance processes.
- Background in traditional finance risk management, including portfolio, credit, or market risk.
- Familiarity with risk tooling and simulation platforms used in DeFi.