Risk Manager - Active Trading

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.

Your team owns risk across Clear Street's business lines, playing a crucial role in the success of our growing business. As a Risk Manager on the Active business, you will contribute to creating, evolving, and executing risk frameworks and best practices tailored to the needs of individual professional and active traders. This is an impactful position that provides the opportunity to expand both your quantitative and client-facing skill sets, covering U.S. and international markets across multi-asset portfolios.

Risk Monitoring & Oversight

• Monitor intraday and end-of-day risk exposures and margin requirements across Active client accounts, with particular attention to the concentrated, higher-velocity trading patterns typical of individual professional traders

• Track U.S. and international markets through OMS and risk systems, escalating material issues to senior management as needed

• Identify and respond quickly to outsized risk events, including large directional positions, concentrated single-name exposures, and leverage exceedances

• Ability to execute client liquidation trades for risk management purpose

Client Engagement

• Serve as a primary risk point of contact for Active clients, conducting account reviews, discussing margin requirements, and advising on portfolio risk in a manner appropriate for professional individual traders

• Communicate critical risk observations clearly and directly to clients, balancing firm risk discipline with a service-oriented approach suited to the Active client profile

• Support client onboarding by reviewing trading history, strategy profiles, and risk parameters to set appropriate account-level risk limits

Margin & Methodology

• Develop and maintain robust margin, risk, and stress-testing methodologies calibrated to the Active book, accounting for the trading behavior, product mix, and leverage profiles of individual professional traders

• Assess and refine margin requirements across equities, options, and other products traded by Active clients

• Support ongoing initiatives related to the development and enhancement of the firm's risk and margin platforms

Reporting & Infrastructure

• Generate and automate ad-hoc and recurring reporting to surface key risk factors and exposures across the Active client base

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders — including Technology, Product, and Operations — to improve risk management infrastructure and margin capabilities specific to the Active business

• Contribute to risk policy development and documentation as the Active business scales

• At least five (5) years of professional experience in trading risk, margin, brokerage risk, or a related