Clear Street

• Help architect and build the next generation of Clear Street Active, our high-performance trading platform tailored for active traders. • Collaborate with a cross-functional team on large-scale initiatives that deliver high-impact solutions and shape the future of our prime brokerage experience. • Work with a team of talented, passionate, and highly collaborative engineers. • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, and make a meaningful impact on the financial industry.

• You will build a best-in-class web experience for sophisticated retail traders on a new, AI-native active trading platform • You will ship core active trading workflows: order entry, positions/holdings, blotter/activity, watchlists, alerts, and high-information-density views • You will build AI-native UI patterns that earn trust: streaming answers, grounded citations/context, uncertainty signaling, pre-trade confirmations, and safe “undo/rollback” experiences where applicable • You will work closely with users and stakeholders to define features, iterate quickly, and drive projects to completion • You will collaborate deeply with backend engineers to design clean contracts for low-latency trading interactions and AI tool integration • You will develop a deep understanding of the markets/trading domain and how to translate it into intuitive, powerful UX

• You will develop a high-performance backend in Rust that supports streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of model + tools • You will build the core AI platform that powers a copilot inside a new, AI-native trading experience • You will design robust APIs and runtime components for AI capabilities: authentication/authorization, rate limits, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks • You will build safe action infrastructure for trading workflows: deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs • You will partner with product and frontend to enable great AI-native UX patterns (streaming, citations/grounding, "why" explanations, reversible actions) • You will develop a deep understanding of the business domain and help translate it into secure, resilient platform primitives

• build the core AI platform that powers a copilot inside a new, AI-native trading experience • develop a high-performance backend in Rust that supports streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of model + tools • design robust APIs and runtime components for AI capabilities: authentication/authorization, rate limits, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks • build safe action infrastructure for trading workflows: deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs • partner with product and frontend to enable great AI-native UX patterns (streaming, citations/grounding, “why” explanations, reversible actions) • develop a deep understanding of the business domain and help translate it into secure, resilient platform primitives

• You will own the reliability and quality bar for an AI copilot embedded in an trading platform used by sophisticated investors • You will design and build evaluation systems that measure correctness, safety, latency, and regression risk across market analysis, portfolio/risk reasoning, and trading workflows (including order placement) • You will develop and maintain benchmarks: curated “golden sets,” scenario suites, stress/adversarial cases, and continuously refreshed market/regime-based test corpora • You will build automated quality gates and regression workflows that block releases when key metrics degrade • You will partner with engineering and product to define safe tool/action contracts (deterministic previews, confirmations, auditability) and ensure predictable assistant behavior • You will own model improvement loops tied to evals: data collection/labeling strategies, error taxonomy, prompt/tooling changes, and when appropriate, fine-tuning or preference optimization to measurably improve benchmark performance • You will design and operate monitoring + incident response for AI: telemetry, alerting, RCA, and “fix-forward” processes • You will develop a deep understanding of trading concepts (margin, shorting, portfolio margin, risk, execution) and how to express them accurately and understandably to users

About Clear Street: Clear Street is modernising the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimising risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency. By combining highly skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we are building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets. Clear Street Europe (CSE) is a new company within the Clear Street group of companies. We are in the process of applying for a licence to provide investment and clearing services. Joining Clear Street Europe means being part of building a new successful organisation, backed by a global group; the best of both worlds. The Role: The Risk Manager’s primary responsibility is to manage CSE’s operational risks, including second line risk management oversight of the requirements as set within DORA within the appetite set by the Board and to improve and report on the effectiveness of the risk framework, policies, and procedures to both Executive Management and the Board. As Risk Manager, you will be responsible for designing and implementing our operational risk management framework. Your focus will include key second-line responsibilities related to outsourcing risk governance, support for financial risk oversight third-party/vendor oversight, and compliance with DORA, ensuring robust controls. This is a second-line role, responsible for maintaining and enhancing the firm’s operational risk management capabilities across its business and support functions. The successful candidate will also be a key point of contact for aligning risk practices and information sharing with our UK-based sister company. This is an excellent opportunity for those wanting to contribute within a fast-paced financial technology environment. The right candidate will have the opportunity to make a big impact through building and shaping the development of Clear Street Europe. Responsibilities: - Design, implement, and maintain the Operational and ICT Risk Management Framework, including the outsourcing and third-party risk management framework - Identify and assess operational risks across departments including trading, IT, compliance, and client services - Monitoring changes to laws and regulations relevant to the second line risk function. - Conduct regular risk assessments, control testing, and scenario analysis - Develop and maintain the risk register, key risk indicators (KRIs), and incident reporting processes - Work closely with business units to remediate risk exposures and strengthen internal controls - Assist with regulatory examinations and audits - Promote a risk-aware culture through training and communication - Prepare risk reports for senior management, the Management Committee, and regulators - Work closely with Finance and the outsourced Risk team to provide second-line oversight of liquidity risk, and counterparty credit risk - Oversee outsourced financial risk considerations are integrated into the wider enterprise risk framework - Serve as the primary risk liaison between the Dutch office, the UK-based sister company and the US headquarters - Evaluate outsourcing proposals and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory outsourcing requirements (e.g. ESMA Guidelines, Wft) - Support the implementation of DORA requirements in collaboration with IT, Compliance, and Information Security - Ensure operational risk controls align with DORA’s expectations on risk management, incident reporting, and digital resilience testing - Contribute the local firm's local response strategy for major (ICT-related) incidents and ensure lessons learned are embedded Skills required: - Minimum 10 years of experience in an operational risk management role within the financial services industry - Degree in Risk Management, Business, Finance, Law, Mathematics or a related field advantageous - Strong understanding of NL, EU and international legislation, regulation and best practice - Experience with conducting investigations and interacting with regulators and law enforcement agencies - Experience with data analysis and reporting, including developing internal exception reports and using Excel pivot tables and v-lookups - Understanding of institutional and retail client dynamics and their respective risk exposures - Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills - Strong written and verbal communication skills - Confidence to deal with colleagues at all levels of the organisation and get buy-in where required to enhance processes and procedures - Fluent in English - Management of second-line outsourcing and/or third-party risk - Proficient in risk management systems, Excel, and GRC tools We Offer: At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, WGA-hiaat and WIA-excedent insurance, a bike plan and an in-office lunch. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person while at the same time offering our employees flexibility. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office at least half their working hours. Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. #LIHYBRID