Securitize

Director of Trading & Risk

United States · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago

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About the role

The ideal candidate combines deep market structure expertise with hands-on operational skill - someone equally comfortable analyzing trade flows, managing risk systems, and guiding regulatory strategy in a fast-evolving digital assets landscape.

Manage relationships with broker-dealer partners, custodians, and liquidity providers to optimize market depth and efficiency.
Implement policies and controls around trade reporting, order management, and reconciliation across blockchain and traditional systems.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive market, credit, counterparty and operational risk framework tailored to digital securities trading.
Monitor and manage exposure across counterparties, issuers, and trading participants.
Lead stress testing, liquidity modeling, and scenario analysis for both digital and fiat operations.
Partner with Compliance and Legal teams to ensure adherence to SEC and FINRA requirements related to agency/principal trading, ATS operations, trade surveillance, and best execution.
Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to enhance trading systems, order routing, and blockchain settlement processes.
Partner with Finance to align risk and capital frameworks, collateral management, and treasury operations.
Hands-on experience building or managing risk frameworks for trading environments (market, credit, liquidity, operational).

Required Skills & Experience
8-12 years of experience in trading operations, risk management, or market structure, ideally within a Broker-Dealer, ATS, or digital asset exchange.

Experience with tokenized securities, blockchain-based settlement, and smart contract mechanics.
Familiarity with digital asset custody, stablecoins, and on-chain trade reconciliation.
Prior leadership experience in risk, trading, or compliance functions at a fintech or digital asset firm.
Advanced degree (MBA, MS Finance, or JD)
Knowledge of modern trading technologies and market data systems (OMS, EMS, risk engines, and analytics platforms
Oversee all secondary trading activity (including Securitize Markets' ATS as well as dealing desk activities) ensuring accurate execution, clearing, and settlement of digital securities transactions.
Monitor market performance, spreads, order flow, and trade anomalies to ensure integrity and stability.
Establish internal thresholds, alerts, and escalation processes for abnormal trading or liquidity events.

Securitize, the leader in tokenizing real-world assets with $3.7B+ AUM (as of May 5, 2025), is bringing the world on-chain through tokenized funds in partnership with top-tier asset managers, such as Apollo, BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and others.
Securitize, through its subsidiaries, is a SEC-registered broker dealer, digital transfer agent, fund administrator, and operator of a SEC-regulated Alternative Trading System (ATS).
Securitize is a global, fully remote team consisting of top talent from the blockchain and financial services industries.
Having raised $170M overall to date, we are backed by some of the largest names in finance and technology, including BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Blockchain Capital, MUFG, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Sony Finance, Banco Santander, Coinbase, among others.
Securitize has also been recognized as a 2025 Forbes Top 50 Fintech company.

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