Operations Risk Lead

About the role

The Operations Risk Lead will ensure the stability and integrity of Kalshi's prediction markets by overseeing post-trade processing and managing operational risk. This role involves monitoring trading activity, safeguarding customer positions, and serving as a primary point of contact for clients and clearing members. You will play a key role in protecting participants and shaping the systems that power the next generation of financial markets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily trade and clearing operations across Kalshi’s current and new markets, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
• Serve as the primary contact for clients, brokers, and clearing members facing trade or system issues, ensuring fast resolution and clear communication
• Continuously monitor risk exposure, system performance, and operational controls; swiftly escalate and collaborate with engineering and risk teams to address and remediate issues
• Identify operational risks proactively and contribute to the development and refinement of automated monitoring and exception-handling systems
• Lead or participate in incident response, root-cause analyses, and post-mortems, ensuring actionable outcomes and continuous operational improvements
• Partner cross-functionally with other teams to drive continuous improvement in risk management processes, documentation, and governance, enhancing Kalshi’s operational resilience and compliance posture
• Support new clearing and risk initiatives aligned with Kalshi’s growth strategy and expansion into new markets and trading products

Required skills

• Clearing processes
• Operational risk management
• Listed derivatives
• Repo
• Treasury
• OTC markets
• Excel
• Google Sheets
• Financial technology

Nice to have

• Clearing systems
• Exchange systems
• Regulated environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field

About the Company

Kalshi has defined a new category of prediction markets, allowing people to trade on the outcome of events and turn questions about the future into financial assets. As the fastest growing financial market in America, the company aims to build the largest financial market on the planet and bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.