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About the Role
Robinhood is building an elite team to tackle major financial problems using frontier technologies. The Crypto Risk team identifies, assesses, and mitigates risk across Robinhood Crypto's products, operations, and platforms to protect customers and the firm. This role focuses on supporting the crypto risk management program, monitoring, assessing, and reporting on risk, with an emphasis on technical and product risk.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Technical Risk Assessments (TRAs) and product risk assessments for new and existing crypto products, features, and business changes.
- Document and assess risks and controls in collaboration with engineering and product owners.
- Analyze incident and issue data to identify recurring root causes, control weaknesses and systemic themes.
- Lead or support retrospectives on material events and translate findings into actionable risk insights for leadership.
- Mature the operational loss tracking process, including loss definitions, intake, taxonomy, linkage to incidents and issues, and trend reporting.
- Manage the issue management lifecycle, from identification and prioritization through remediation tracking and closure.
- Ensure issues are handled and escalated appropriately.
- Perform and refresh Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) and support Business Impact Analyses.
- Monitor, refine and develop key risk indicators (KRIs).
- Prepare risk reporting for governance forums, including risk committee and board materials and escalations.
- Translate technical risks into clear, actionable terms for non-engineering stakeholders.
- Translate technical risks into clear, actionable terms for non-engineering partners.
- Partner with engineering, product, compliance, crypto operations, and enterprise risk teams to maintain a consistent view of risk across the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in operational risk, enterprise risk management, or technology risk at a regulated financial services or crypto/fintech firm.
- Hands-on experience facilitating risk assessments (RCSA, technology or product risk assessments, process risk assessments), including working directly with business, product and engineering owners.
- Experience designing, running or materially contributing to business continuity or disaster recovery exercises, including scenario design, facilitation and after action reporting.
- Experience performing root cause analysis or thematic analysis across incidents, with the ability to identify patterns and systemic issues from operational data.
- Deep understanding of risk management methodologies, including risk taxonomies, control design, KRIs and issue management.
- Technical exposure and comfort working in a technical environment, with the ability to read engineering design documents and incident post mortems and extract the risk.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical colleagues and present risk findings to stakeholders across the organization.
- Detail oriented, with a proactive, independent approach to identifying and addressing risk.
Skills
- Risk management methodologies
- Risk taxonomies
- Control design
- KRIs
- Issue management
- Technical risk assessment
- Product risk assessment
- Root cause analysis
- Thematic analysis
- Business continuity
- Disaster recovery
- SQL
- Python
- BI tool
Location
- New York, NY
- Menlo Park, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Computer science or engineering degree (preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- $94,000—$110,000 USD (Zone 1)
- $82,000—$97,000 USD (Zone 2)
- $73,000—$86,000 USD (Zone 3)
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation
- Bonus programs
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
- 100% paid health insurance for employees
- 90% health insurance coverage for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Events
- Comfortable workspaces
About the Company
- Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all.
- Robinhood is building the future of finance.
- Robinhood is a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything they do.
Equal Opportunity
- Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws.
- Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best.