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Clear Street is a fintech company modernizing the brokerage ecosystem with a cloud-native clearing and custody platform. Founded in 2018, the company serves as a diversified financial services firm replacing legacy capital markets infrastructure. Clear Street's proprietary prime brokerage platform delivers efficiency across equities, options, and fixed-income products globally.
As a Prime Brokerage Risk Manager, you will own risk management across Clear Street's business lines, playing a crucial role in the firm's growth. You will contribute to creating, evolving, and executing risk frameworks and best practices while covering global markets across multi-asset portfolios.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as primary point of contact for clients on portfolio onboarding, risk reviews, and ongoing risk management
- Monitor intraday and end-of-day risk exposures and margin requirements across client portfolios
- Track global markets through OMS and risk systems, escalating material issues to senior management
- Develop and maintain robust margin, risk, and stress-testing methodologies
- Generate and automate ad-hoc reporting highlighting key risk factors and portfolio exposures
- Communicate critical risk observations with senior risk management and external clients
- Support development and enhancement of the firm's risk and margin platforms
- Collaborate with technology and product teams to improve risk management infrastructure
You bring at least 5 years of professional experience in prime brokerage risk, trading risk, or related roles covering equities and fixed income (sell-side or buy-side), plus a minimum of 8 years overall in financial services. A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or Financial Engineering is required; Master's preferred. You have solid understanding of equity and fixed income products, including options pricing and risk measures, and familiarity with regulatory frameworks and capital/margin rules. Proficiency in Python and SQL is preferred. Strong communication skills, analytical mindset, project management experience, and ability to work with engineering teams are essential. Experience with Bloomberg, ICE, FactSet, and risk policy development is valued.
Clear Street requires a minimum of three days per week in-office presence and offers competitive compensation, company equity, pension, gender-neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance.
