Risk Officer

Blockchain.com is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

We’re looking for a highly motivated Risk Officer who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys building from the ground up. This is a hands-on and high-impact role that will straddle both strategic risk leadership and operational execution. You’ll be a key player in shaping our company’s approach to risk and fraud management—balancing innovation and growth with compliance and integrity.

You’ll work across teams to develop and embed a robust risk management framework, help define and calibrate our risk appetite, and represent the company in regulatory discussions. At the same time, you'll be expected to roll up your sleeves—supporting the monitoring of day-to-day fraud risks, and partnering closely with product, compliance, and customer support to strengthen our risk management defenses. This is a 2-year maternity leave cover position, based in Malta.

As the Risk Officer, you'll play a pivotal role in building and strengthening our risk program. Here's how you'll make a difference:

• Serve as a designated Risk Officer in conversations with regulators, auditors, and partners—explaining our risk approach, governance structures, and control environment.
• Drive risk reporting to senior leadership and the board, delivering clear, actionable insights.
• Partner with Product, Data, and Engineering to design and optimize fraud detection tools and processes.
• Champion a strong risk-aware culture throughout the company—helping teams understand risk in a practical, business-aligned way.
• Collaborate across teams including Compliance, Product, Finance, and Customer Success to align objectives and address risks across different projects and products.
• Drive a vendor management program that improves efficiencies and reduces risk for business partners
• Responsible for the definition, maintenance, and administration of our third party & vendor management risk framework, continuously driving improvements
• Support the monitoring of outsourcing risk mitigation and create related reports to management.
• Support and development of Sourcing, Procurement, Outsourcing and Vendor Management policies and processes
• Assist the department lead in defining the relevant key performance indicators, key risk indicators and relevant reporting
• Independently keep yourself up to date with regulatory changes in the markets we are licensed and point out possible changes to our protocols that need to be made

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• At least 5 years prior experience within Banking, Finance or FinTech, with strong understanding of and experience with risk management and methodologies using analytical tools and techniques
• Strong analytical abilities with the capacity to transform data into a strategic vision
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Perform well in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, diverse work environment with great follow through.
• Excel in relationship building & have experience managing complex cross-functional relationships.
• Knowledge of and experience with crypto is a plus.
• Hybrid role in our Malta office.
• Proven experience building or maturing risk frameworks and governance structures from scratch or in a high-growth environment.
• Strong knowledge of fraud typologies and mitigation strategies, ideally including both card-not-present and identity fraud.
• Confident communicator with the ability to interface credibly with regulators, senior leadership, and technical