Financial Risk Manager

RootstockLabs builds Bitcoin-secured DeFi infrastructure that enables companies and financial institutions to offer borrowing, lending, investment, and payment solutions at global scale.

### Key Responsibilities - **Value Proposition & Product Design**: Co-design financial products and value propositions together with the Product Lead, ensuring products are competitive, investable, and structurally sound. - **Risk Assessment & Stress Testing**: Assess any financial, counterparty risk, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk across on-chain and off-chain components. - **Capital Allocation & Performance Oversight**: Help define where vault capital should be deployed across protocols and partners. - **Partner Evaluation**: Assess protocols and partners through a financial risk lens as part of the broader partner quality framework. - **Framework Development**: Build risk assessment frameworks, financial models, evaluation criteria, and monitoring dashboards from scratch.

### What You Bring - Experience in financial product design, risk strategy, or structured finance within fintech, crypto, asset management, or protocol environments. - DeFi-native experience with a strong understanding of protocol mechanics and how yield strategies, lending markets, and tokenised products are structured. - Strong expertise in structured product risk, including counterparty risk, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk. - Clear understanding of product risk vs portfolio risk, with hands-on experience stress-testing financial products. - Strong hybrid on-chain and off-chain financial expertise, including smart contract risk, on-chain liquidity dynamics, protocol governance risk, and counterparty exposure across systems. - Ability to assess how risks interact and compound across on-chain and off-chain components under stress. - Strong commercial judgment on both market attractiveness and downside risk, with the ability to distinguish headline yield from durable product quality. - Experience building frameworks, financial models, or evaluation criteria from scratch. - Strong analytical thinking and ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly. - Builder mindset with the ability to define structure and operate without predefined processes. - AI experience, interest, or acumen is a big plus.

### Rooties Benefits - Competitive compensation package and unique benefits designed to support your growth and well-being. - 100% Remote Work from Europe / Latin America, with access to global CoWorking spaces. - Work-Life Balance: Paid vacation and sick leave days. - Continuous Learning: Access to training programs, language courses, and learning sponsorship annually. - Unique Projects: Work with cutting-edge blockchain technology in a global, diverse team. - Monthly Allowance for Contractors to support your connectivity and well-being.

RootstockLabs builds infrastructure for Bitcoin-secured finance, contributing to Rootstock, the largest and longest-running Bitcoin sidechain that enables smart contracts, decentralized applications, and financial services on Bitcoin. They partner with developers, fintechs, and institutions to enable onchain capital markets, lending, borrowing, investment, and cross-border payments. Since 2017, they have focused on extending Bitcoin's functionality for scalable, secure decentralized technologies.