RootstockLabs

Financial Risk Manager

RootstockLabs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in Europe

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Tech Stack

Vault

About the role

  • Co-design financial products and value propositions together with the Product Lead, ensuring products are competitive, investable, and structurally sound.
  • Translate partner capabilities and protocol mechanics into products that distribution partners want to offer and institutional investors want to buy.
  • Contribute from the earliest stage of discovery and help shape product direction from both a market and risk perspective.
  • Assess any financial, counterparty risk, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk across on-chain and off-chain components.
  • Stress test yield strategies and evaluate vulnerabilities such as bundled leverage, incentive heavy emissions, and denominator mismatches.
  • Model downside scenarios and assess what happens under stress, including protocol exploits, liquidity crises, and partner failures.
  • Help define where vault capital should be deployed across protocols and partners.
  • Set allocation parameters, monitor performance against expectations, and flag when outcomes drift from the intended assumptions.
  • Evaluate product structures through a financial and strategic lens, not only through performance.
  • Assess protocols and partners through a financial risk lens as part of the broader partner quality framework.
  • Evaluate not just whether something looks attractive as an investment, but whether a durable product can be built on top of it.
  • Build risk assessment frameworks, financial models, evaluation criteria, and monitoring dashboards from scratch.
  • Create a structure where there is none and help define how this new function should operate.
  • Support the development of decision frameworks that guide product and partner evaluation over time.

Requirements

  • 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
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial product designrisk strategystructured financeDeFiprotocol mechanicsyield strategiesstructured product riskfinancial modelingrisk assessment frameworksstress testing
Soft Skills
analytical thinkingcommercial judgmentcommunicationbuilder mindsetability to define structure