Director - Prime Brokerage Risk

About Clear Street:

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. 

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We’ve agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients. 

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Team:

Your team will own risk across Clear Street's business lines, playing a crucial role in the success of our growing business. As a PB Risk Manager, you will contribute to successfully creating, evolving, and executing risk frameworks and best practices. This is an impactful position that provides the opportunity to expand both your quantitative and client facing skill-sets. You will cover US and international markets, across multi assets portfolios.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, engaging in active discussions around portfolio onboarding, risk reviews, and ongoing risk management topics.
• Monitor intraday and end-of-day risk exposures and margin requirements across client portfolios.
• Track U.S. and international markets through OMS and risk systems, escalating material issues to senior management as needed.
• Develop and maintain robust margin, risk, and stress-testing methodologies.
• Generate and automate ad-hoc reporting to highlight key risk factors and portfolio exposures.
• Communicate critical risk observations with both senior risk management and external clients.
• Support ongoing initiatives related to the development and enhancement of the firm’s risk and margin platforms.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including technology and product teams, to improve risk management infrastructure and margin capabilities.

Requirements: 

• At least five (5)  years of professional experience in prime brokerage risk, trading risk, or related roles covering equities and fixed income, either on the sell-side or buy-side.
• Should have a minimum of eight (8) years of overall professional experience in financial services
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or Financial Engineering required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Solid understanding of equity and fixed income products, including fundamental options pricing and associated risk measures.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and capital/margin rules applicable to risk management.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL preferred.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with clients and regulators.
• Proactive, collaborative, and a strong team player with a high sense of ownership.
• Demonstrated project management experience and the ability to work closely with engineering and cross-functional teams.
• Analytical and detail-oriented, with strong quantitative aptitude.
• Experience in risk policy development and implementation.
• Familiarity with industry-standard tools such as Bloomberg, ICE, FactSet, etc.

We Offer:  

The Base Salary Range for this role is $175,000 - $250,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  #LI-Hybrid