Head of Market Risk
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- Experience
- Senior
- Where you can live
- Malta only
- Skills and tools
- b2b
- Job type
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Job details
- Where you can work
- Malta
- Employment type
- Contract
- Advertised pay
- Not stated by the employer
- Experience
- Senior
- Employer publication date
- 12 October 2026
- First recorded by Psst
- 15 October 2026
- Last checked at the source
- 10 November 2026
About the job
Hacksaw Markets is a B2B prediction-market platform that operators can use to offer prediction markets under their own brands. As the Head of Market Risk y ou will build and lead the market-risk function. You will define the limits, models, monitoring and escalation mechanisms that protect the platform through normal conditions, market stress, data failures and unusual participant behaviour.
What you will own
- Develop the risk framework across exposure, liquidity, concentration, volatility, settlement and counterparties.
- Set risk appetite, limits, triggers and escalation protocols for markets, participants and liquidity providers.
- Build real-time dashboards and early-warning indicators with data, quantitative and engineering teams.
- Design stress tests for extreme outcomes, correlated events, rapid information shocks and market closures.
- Review new market categories, contract structures and liquidity programmes before approval.
- Lead incident response for limit breaches, pricing anomalies, data failures and disorderly markets.
What you bring
- 10+ years in market risk, trading risk, exchange risk, clearing or quantitative risk.
- Deep understanding of electronic trading, liquidity, exposure measurement, limit systems and stress testing.
- Experience building or materially improving risk frameworks, models and management reporting.
- Strong quantitative judgment when models and real-world conditions diverge.
- Clear cross-functional communication and calm leadership during high-pressure events.
Why Hacksaw Markets
- A genuine build-stage mandate with direct influence over product, operating model and culture.
- An ambitious team supported by established technology, operating experience and long-term capital.
- The opportunity to help create trusted infrastructure for a category moving rapidly into the mainstream.
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Apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile and a short note describing the most relevant market, system, product or operational challenge you have owned.
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