Senior Risk Strategist, Market Manipulation (Trading Risk)

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain risk strategies detecting manipulative and abusive trading behaviors across spot, perpetual futures, options products and other trading products.
• Conduct in-depth investigations into suspected manipulation rings: order flow analysis, self-match/crossing patterns, order book microstructure anomalies, and cross-account linkage
• Build behavioral profiles for emerging manipulation typologies in low-liquidity instruments, leveraged products, and leveraged liquidation cascades
• Quantify risk impact (market distortion, potential losses, exposure concentration) to support strategy prioritization and management reporting
• Partner with trading product, compliance, and other related teams on surveillance rule and control measure design

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on derivatives trading experience: solid understanding of futures, perpetual contracts, and options mechanics including leverage, margining, liquidation mechanisms, insurance fund mechanisms, and ADL (Auto-Deleveraging) settings.
• Trading risk management experience, with a focus on market manipulation detection and prevention of abusive schemes (spoofing/layering, wash trading, front-running, insider/dealer misappropriation)
• Strong data analysis skills: SQL required; Python preferred; able to independently design and validate detection logic against order-level and trade-level datasets
• Ability to reason from the attacker's perspective: how manipulators construct positions, disguise intent, and exploit product rules
• Experience collaborating across risk, compliance, product, or legal functions

Preferred Qualifications

• Work experience at a crypto exchange, brokerage, or trading venue in surveillance, trading risk, or market conduct roles
• Personal quantitative trading track record: candidates who actively trade derivatives are encouraged to share verifiable account performance (PnL statements) as evidence of practical market understanding
• Familiarity with traditional finance market abuse frameworks and surveillance vendors
• Familiarity with crypto on-chain fund-flow tracing.
• Experience with graph analysis / entity-linking and crypto on-chain fund-flow tracing for uncovering collusion networks across accounts.
• Understanding of the application of market anomaly signals, such as VPIN, HHI.

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