Chief Risk Officer (CRO)

MoonPay is a payments platform for digital currency, focused on making crypto accessible and easy to use, with a mission to onboard the world to the decentralized economy. They are committed to financial empowerment, compliance, and building scalable solutions for a blockchain-powered future.

Location: United States

Responsibilities

• Own and build the end-to-end enterprise risk management framework for MoonPay, including policies, procedures, controls, and risk governance structures.
• Define and operationalise the company’s risk appetite framework, ensuring alignment with global regulatory expectations and best practices around safety and soundness.
• Lead risk-related engagement with regulators and external stakeholders across jurisdictions, ensuring consistent and effective communication of MoonPay’s risk posture.
• Design and implement risk systems, reporting, and monitoring across financial and non-financial risk areas.
• Act as a senior partner to executive leadership (including Legal, Compliance, Security, and Finance) while maintaining strict independence of the risk function.
• Build, scale, and lead a high-performing global risk team, including hiring, mentoring, and setting operating cadence.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in risk leadership roles within financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated industries, with experience building or transforming risk functions.
• Proven track record as a builder and executor — you have created frameworks, led remediation or transformation programs, and delivered under regulatory scrutiny.
• Deep understanding of enterprise risk management, controls, governance, and regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Comfortable operating in high-ambiguity, fast-scaling environments, with the judgment to balance innovation with appropriate risk tolerance.
• Strong operator mindset with the credibility to challenge senior stakeholders while partnering effectively across the organization.
• Strong technical competency across key financial and non-financial risk domains (e.g., market, credit, liquidity, operational, and technology risk).

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Equity package with ownership at MoonPay
• Pay for performance equity bonus
• Moonshot award: $250,000 equity grant for exceptional impact, twice a year
• Unlimited holidays
• Hybrid working schedule (remote or Moonbase)
• Private Healthcare benefits
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual training budget
• Home office setup allowance
• Remote working allowance
• Monthly budget for products and crypto transactions
• Employee referral programme with 10K USDC reward
• Regular remote company offsites