Head of Risk

Deeter Analytics is a privately held investment research and trading firm managing its own capital across global public markets. We pair sharp human judgment with modern AI to act on a distinctive way of seeing markets, and we run a concentrated, thesis-driven book that moves as the world does. We're hiring a Head of Risk to own everything that happens after a position goes on. This is an individual contributor seat, built from scratch: no team to manage, no outside investors to report to, and no inherited framework. You report directly to the principal.

Responsibilities

Own the map of the book: a living inventory of every position, why it is on, what would take it off, and what it is exposed to; Perform thesis hygiene: a daily read of positions against the firm's current views, flagging stale, contradictory or mis-sized positions; Clean up positions nobody is watching, residual pieces of old trades, and drifted exposures; Build exposure and scenario views sized to how the firm trades; Track counterparty, financing and operational exposures across brokers and platforms; Define the data and views the seat requires for the tech team to build; Produce a daily note: one short, decision-ready view of what changed, what is stale, and what needs a decision

Requirements

Demonstrated experience running a risk process at a fund, family office, prop desk, or risk side of a bank; Careful by temperament; Fluent in positioning, derivatives, factor exposure, liquidity and counterparty risk; Comfortable with a principal who changes direction fast; Plain communicator; Low ego, truth-seeking and driven; Self-directed; Hands on; AI-native with trust-but-verify discipline; Proportionate; Book reading; Thesis-to-position mapping; Scenario thinking; Counterparty and operational awareness; Data specification; Operating discipline

Nice to have

Ideally able to prototype what the seat needs to see using Python, SQL or spreadsheets

Benefits

Direct line to the principal; Well-capitalized firm with a distinctive approach to markets; Small, discreet team that values intellectual honesty and independent judgment; Upside tied to how much cleaner and better-protected the book is; Remote work with US market hours