
About the role
Overview
The Risk Manager will act as an embedded front office risk partner to Trading and Treasury, monitoring lending exposures, overseeing structured loan and derivatives transactions, and assessing counterparty credit risk across crypto-native entities and DeFi protocols.
Skills
Candidate requirements
These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.
- Proven front office risk experience within trading, structured credit or derivatives
- Direct crypto market exposure – lending, exchanges, DeFi or digital asset structured products

Risk Manager – Crypto
Partnering with Top-Tier Talent Globally across Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Human Resources.
Last updated 2026-02-26T06:02:18.648Z
Overview
The Risk Manager will act as an embedded front office risk partner to Trading and Treasury, monitoring lending exposures, overseeing structured loan and derivatives transactions, and assessing counterparty credit risk across crypto-native entities and DeFi protocols.
Salary
$150,000 - $200,000
/yearLocation
New York, United States
OnsiteDepartment
Finance, Legal & Compliance
Level
Senior
Skills
Overview
The Risk Manager will act as an embedded front office risk partner to Trading and Treasury, monitoring lending exposures, overseeing structured loan and derivatives transactions, and assessing counterparty credit risk across crypto-native entities and DeFi protocols.
Skills
Candidate requirements
These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.
- Proven front office risk experience within trading, structured credit or derivatives
- Direct crypto market exposure – lending, exchanges, DeFi or digital asset structured products
About Simmons & Hanbury
Simmons & Hanbury is a specialist executive search firm that sources and secures the best talent and future leaders for our clients. We provide an integrated international service to support our clients across the globe from our group headquarters based in the heart of the City of London and our New York office. We support some of the most prestigious organisations in the world, across financial services, commerce & industry, and professional services.
Our services include executive search and market intelligence within the Legal, Compliance, Risk, Corporate Governance and Human Resources practice areas. Our legal interim division provides flexible consultancy arrangements. We facilitate secondments for senior lawyers into in-house legal departments and law firms and source specialist lawyers for bespoke projects.
We strive to provide long-term value for our clients and repeat business is at the heart of what we do. We have a longstanding and successful track record of supporting the same clients on multiple occasions and across geographies.
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