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Altruist is building an AI platform for wealth professionals and is launching margin and options trading capabilities. This role owns the credit and market risk framework that keeps these products safe, including house margin requirements, stress testing, concentration and liquidity surveillance, and escalation decisions that protect clients and the firm.
You will be accountable for identifying, measuring, and acting on credit and market risk across margin and options accounts. This is an individual contributor role with a clear path to people leadership—you will build the function end-to-end, write the playbook, and set the standard that a future team will run.
Key responsibilities include:
**Margin & Credit Risk Oversight:** Own daily credit risk surveillance across margin accounts using internal monitoring tools. Design, calibrate, and maintain house margin requirements including security-level and account-level add-ons. Monitor concentration, liquidity, and volatility risk and run stress scenarios on the book. Set and maintain collateral treatment across security types, including haircuts, liquidity tiers, and concentration limits. Approve margin requirement changes, extensions, and exception cases. Review debit balance trends and escalate accounts approaching liquidation thresholds. Direct the Trade Desk on liquidation decisions, sequencing, and timing.
**Options Risk Oversight:** Own expiration-day and in-the-money risk reviews, including assignment and exercise exposure. Review and drive resolution of uncovered or at-risk options positions. Monitor OCC margin outputs and specific deposits, partnering with Operations on mitigation. Assess risk impact of proposed options level expansions and new strategies.
**Regulatory & Control Responsibilities:** Ensure the risk framework complies with Regulation T, FINRA Rule 4210 (margin requirements), and FINRA Rule 2360 (options). Define and monitor key risk indicators and produce recurring risk reporting for leadership. Lead root-cause analysis on credit events, near-misses, and control failures. Maintain documentation supporting risk decisions for audits and regulatory reviews.
**Build & Scale:** Partner with Product and Engineering to embed risk controls, alerts, and automation into the platform. Reduce manual surveillance through better tooling and process improvements.
