[Hiring] Head of Risk @Deeter Analytics

Role Description

Deeter Analytics is hiring a Head of Risk to own everything that happens after a position goes on. You’ll know positions and the reasoning behind them, read the book daily against the firm’s current views, and say plainly when something no longer belongs.

• The map of the book: A living inventory of every position, including why it’s on, what would take it off, and what it’s exposed to, by name, theme, and factor.
• Thesis hygiene: A daily read of positions against the firm’s current views, with stale, contradictory, or mis-sized positions flagged the day they happen.
• The clean-up: Positions nobody is watching, residual pieces of old trades, exposures that drifted. You find them and get them resolved.
• Exposure and scenario views sized to how we actually trade, in terms the principal will act on.
• Counterparty, financing, and operational exposures across our brokers and platforms: known, sized, and on the same map as the positions.
• What we need to see: You define the data and views this seat requires, and the tech team builds to your spec.
• The daily note: One short, decision-ready view each day: what changed, what’s stale, what needs a decision.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated judgment and critical thinking.
• Experience in a similar role at a fund, family office, prop desk, or on the risk side of a bank.
• Careful by temperament; loose ends bother you.
• Fluent in risk; allergic to taking it.
• Comfortable with a principal who changes direction fast.
• A plain communicator; able to articulate issues succinctly.
• Low ego, truth-seeking, and driven.

Requirements

• Self-directed; define the process without a limits framework or risk committee.
• Hands-on; perform the work yourself every day.
• Builder minded; specify and prototype what you need to see (Python, SQL, or spreadsheets).
• Proportionate; know which exposures matter and allocate attention accordingly.
• AI-native; fluent with modern AI tools for surveillance, synthesis, and reporting.
• Fast and collaborative; operate at the speed of markets and work closely with the trading desk and tech team.

Core skills

• Book reading; seeing a concentrated book as a set of exposures.
• Thesis-to-position mapping; translating discretionary views into actionable insights.
• Scenario thinking; producing decisions from factor, theme, and liquidity scenarios.
• Counterparty and operational awareness; understanding exposures beyond positions.
• Data specification; knowing what a risk function needs and asking for it precisely.
• Operating discipline; maintaining a daily rhythm and thorough documentation.

Benefits

• A direct line to the principal and a seat beside the decisions your work protects.
• A well-capitalized firm with a distinctive approach to markets.
• A small, discreet team that values intellectual honesty and independent judgment.
• Upside tied to the improvement of the book's cleanliness and protection.
• Remote work; US market hours.