About the job
- Title: Director of Risk Management
- Location: New York, NY (in-office, 5 days per week)
- Base Salary: $175,000–$250,000
- Equity: Competitive initial equity package, with refreshers
- Experience: 7–12+ years
About Stratos Labs
Stratos Labs builds technology for commodity risk management, serving the $10 trillion physical economy. The platform combines real-time market data, AI-powered exposure modeling, and automated trade execution. Operators use Stratos Labs to monitor risk, receive alerts, and act on recommendations, turning complex exposures into a managed, always-on hedging process.
Founded in 2023 by a macro market-maker from Barclays and a trading systems engineer from Coinbase, Stratos Labs has raised over $20 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, and DST Global.
What You Will Do
This position leads all aspects of market and credit risk management for Stratos Labs. The Director of Risk Management designs and maintains frameworks, systems, and strategies that protect the company’s balance sheet. The role works closely with executives, engineering, compliance, and product teams to maintain a disciplined risk approach and to support capital efficiency as the company grows.
Key Responsibilities
- Market Risk and Hedging: Build and maintain real-time visibility into firm-wide exposures, including those from client hedging, execution lags, and temporary risk warehousing. Develop and execute systematic hedging strategies across futures, options, and OTC markets to reduce slippage, basis risk, and execution costs.
- Credit Risk and Counterparty Management: Create and oversee the credit risk framework, including counterparty evaluation, onboarding, exposure limits, credit lines, and margin requirements. Underwrite and monitor risk for clients using margin or financing, develop models to track exposure at default, collateral, and margin sufficiency. Set and enforce escalation protocols for margin calls, position changes, and trading restrictions.

