About this role.
Kalshi is seeking an Operations Risk Lead to oversee post-trade, clearing, and operational-risk activities for its prediction-markets exchange. The role monitors trading exposure and system controls, resolves issues with clients, brokers, and clearing members, and coordinates escalations with engineering and risk teams. It also leads incident response, root-cause analysis, and improvements to automated monitoring, exception handling, governance, and operational resilience. Candidates need 5–6 years of relevant derivatives, repo, treasury, or OTC-market experience, plus strong analytical skills and familiarity with clearing processes. This is a hands-on financial-markets operations role requiring sound judgment in a regulated, high-growth environment.
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I would first contain the issue by identifying impacted trades, accounts, and downstream clearing processes, then verify source data, system logs, and reconciliation outputs. I would notify the appropriate risk, engineering, and operations stakeholders, communicate clear status updates to affected parties, and document corrective actions. After resolution, I would lead a root-cause review and implement monitoring or control improvements to prevent recurrence.
I would prioritize trade-capture accuracy, position and margin integrity, clearing and settlement breaks, market-data discrepancies, system availability, access controls, and exception-resolution timeliness. I would define thresholds and escalation paths for each area, reconcile critical records daily, and use trend analysis to identify control weaknesses before they become customer-impacting incidents.
I use a structured triage model that separates immediate customer, financial, and regulatory risks from lower-severity process work. Critical incidents receive immediate ownership and communication, while recurring issues are tracked through a prioritized remediation backlog with owners, milestones, and measurable control outcomes. This keeps daily execution reliable while ensuring systemic improvements are not deferred indefinitely.
A strong post-mortem includes a factual timeline, scope and customer impact, detection method, root cause, contributing factors, actions taken during response, and validation of the fix. It should also specify preventive actions, accountable owners, deadlines, and monitoring metrics. The focus should be blameless learning and durable process or system improvements.
I would explain the practical impact first, such as which positions or transactions are affected and whether action is required. I would avoid unnecessary technical detail, provide the current status and expected next update, and state the resolution path in plain language. Internally, I would retain the detailed technical evidence so client communications remain accurate and consistent.
What We’re Up To
Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history. Kalshi is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has over 1,900 markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.
We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.
- Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.
- Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.
Building a new category is hard… like, really hard. But it’s beautiful and deeply fulfilling. Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.
Role Roadmap
As an Operations Risk Lead, you’ll help ensure the stability and integrity of Kalshi’s markets by overseeing post-trade processing and managing operational risk across our exchange. You’ll monitor trading activity around the clock, safeguard customer positions, and serve as the first point of contact for clients and clearing members experiencing operational issues. You’ll play a key role in protecting participants, minimizing risk, and shaping the systems that power Kalshi’s next generation of markets.
What You’ll Do
- 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
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field
- Familiarity with clearing processes and operational risk management best practices
- 5-6 years of experience in listed derivatives, repo, treasury, or OTC markets, ideally at a clearing house, trading firm, an exchange or a FCM
- Strong analytical capabilities and technical proficiency, including advanced Excel/Google
- Sheets skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, macros) and a basic understanding of financial technology systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of working effectively across technical and non-technical teams
- Detail-oriented mindset with the ability to balance daily operational rigor and long-term risk strategy
- Bonus: Experience working with clearing or exchange systems in a regulated environment
- Bonus: Interest in financial innovation, derivatives, and the future of event-based trading
Our Culture
Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out. We dream big. We love our craft deeply and are proud of what we put out in the world. We are committed to our vision of building something big… but also useful: a product that brings more truth through the power of markets.
Kalshians are Kalshi’s most important asset: we pick Kalshians carefully, so we trust them fully on day 1.
NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure:
Salary Range: $160,000 to $220,000 annually plus equity and benefits.
This salary range is based on the current available market data, and represents the expected salary range for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and few titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles. Should you have compensation expectations that exceed these bands, we’d love to hear from you and would welcome you to reach out to further discuss.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our mission and values, we’d love to hear from you.
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