Chief Risk Officer (CRO)

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).

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.

About MoonPay

Hi, we’re MoonPay. We’re here to onboard the world to the decentralized economy by making digital money move as universally and effortlessly as the internet.

Why?

Because crypto, stablecoins and blockchain aren’t just technologies. They’re tools for global financial empowerment. They give people and businesses more control over their money, their digital assets, and their future, opening access to legacy financial systems that have been out of reach for many.

What we do

MoonPay is a unified payments platform for digital currency. We make it easy for anyone, anywhere, to buy, sell, swap and pay in digital currencies as easy as sending an email. That simplicity is intentional, our focus is reducing complexity so people can participate confidently, without needing to be crypto experts. We power the entire flow between fiat and crypto end to end, with compliance, identity checks, fraud prevention, and settlement all built in. This end-to-end approach reflects how we work internally: with accountability, rigor, and trust built into everything we ship.