Head of Risk

#### How you can make an impact:

• Lead and build the Risk team, setting direction, priorities, and standards for the function

• Own and evolve Aave’s risk management frameworks and policies

• Set minimum review standards and provide independent challenge for product-specific risk frameworks

• Establish model-risk and data-governance standards for material quantitative models and external risk inputs, including validation, versioning and monitoring

• Review whether product and engineering controls adequately implement approved risk requirements, with explicit ownership of gaps, exceptions and incident response

• Establish standards for external risk providers and data dependencies, including methodology, independence, conflicts, data quality, performance and fallback arrangements

• Own the governance, approval thresholds and escalation process for protocol-risk parameters; oversee monitoring and review material change recommendations

• Approve and sign off on collateral onboarding decisions and risk assessments

• Review liquidation performance and recommend improvements to liquidation mechanisms

• Lead risk governance processes and present risk analyses to the DAO

• Monitor market structure changes and their implications for protocol risk

• Take accountability for the quality, independence and timeliness of Risk’s assessments, ensuring residual risks, decision owners and escalation paths are explicit and drive a culture of ownership within the team

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#### Let’s connect if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in risk management, with a strong preference for DeFi or crypto-native experience

• Proven experience leading and managing a risk team

• Deep understanding of the Aave Protocol: its markets, governance, parameters, and risk dynamics

• Strong grasp of market structure, portfolio risk management, and stress testing methodologies

• Experience governing risk for composable DeFi products or pooled strategies, including external protocol, liquidity, oracle, counterparty, execution and operational dependencies

• Experience working with or managing external risk service providers

• Strong sense of accountability and ownership. You take responsibility for outcomes and hold your team to the same standard

• Excellent judgment under uncertainty. You’re comfortable making consequential decisions with imperfect information

• Strong communication skills for governance proposals, risk reports, and stakeholder alignment

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#### Nice to haves:

• Previous experience working directly with DeFi governance processes

• Background in traditional finance risk management (portfolio, credit, or market risk)

• Familiarity with risk tooling and simulation platforms used in DeFi