Head of Risk

WHO ARE WE?

ElectronX® is the first U.S.-regulated, direct access electricity derivatives market, offering financial products to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With offices in Chicago and New York City, ElectronX is building the missing financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to smooth the path for U.S. energy production, diversification and grid expansion in a time of rapidly increasing power demand.

ElectronX is a venture capital-backed startup supported by premier VC partners including Innovation Endeavors, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures LLC, DCVC, Amplo, BoxGroup and Lightning Capital.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

As a fast-growing company in the highly competitive, quantitative capital markets industry, ElectronX values candidates who are resourceful, curious and adaptable to change. Our cultural focus on innovation requires collaborative and entrepreneurial teammates with the intellectual grit necessary for near- and long-term success.

ElectronX is building a CFTC-regulated Derivatives Clearing Organization from the ground up, and risk management is the backbone of everything we do. As we expand across all U.S. ISOs and transition to margin-based trading, we need a Head of Risk who can design the enterprise risk framework that makes it all possible. This role works in close partnership with and in support of ElectronX’s Chief Risk Officer to build and execute that framework.

This isn’t a role where you inherit a risk program and maintain it. You’re building it. You’ll define how ElectronX thinks about risk across every dimension: market, credit, counterparty, operational, and liquidity. You’ll set the risk appetite for a fast-growing exchange, stand up the monitoring and surveillance infrastructure, and make sure we’re not just compliant but ahead of where regulators are going.

The right person has seen risk management done well at established institutions and knows what to take...