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Chief Risk Officer

📍 Location
San Francisco, California
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 16, 2026

About the Role



About the Company



This organization operates in high-risk payment corridors — cross-border transfers, international emerging markets, and high-risk merchant categories including streaming and online gambling. Compliance is treated not as a checkbox, but as a competitive differentiator and existential requirement. The company is building toward a potential bank charter and requires a risk executive who can credibly own both the financial risk and the compliance risk of the institution.




The Opportunity



This is the highest-priority executive hire. The ideal CRO genuinely straddles risk and compliance — someone with a financial risk background who has deep expertise in BSA/AML, and who can speak intelligently to credit, liquidity, and interest rate risk in the same breath. Candidates with experience exclusively in enterprise risk management or exclusively in compliance are unlikely to be the right fi...

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