
Smarkets · Chicago
Chief Risk Officer CFTC-Regulated Business Unit Location: Chicago, IL. Fully remote to start, transitioning to 3 days/week in office. About Smarkets Sma...
Chief Risk Officer
CFTC-Regulated Business Unit
Location: Chicago, IL. Fully remote to start, transitioning to 3 days/week in office.
About Smarkets
Smarkets is a prediction market exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over $50 billion in volume since 2010.
We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a platform that offers the best value for traders, with not only the
fairest prices but also the best technology, alongside a superior customer experience.
We believe the foundation to our success is attracting the best people to our organisation and creating a high-performance
environment where they can thrive. We are searching for an atypical candidate with a wealth of regulated business experience to
support the development of our CFTC business.
This is a senior leadership role sitting within our CFTC-regulated business unit, with responsibility for the enterprise risk
management function across our Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO). You will be the most
senior risk voice in the business, owning the identification, assessment, and mitigation of every risk facing the entity. This is
a founding build: our licensing applications are in-flight and you will stand up the risk management framework from the ground up
through to go-live, then operate and mature it as the business scales. You will work directly with the CEO and board, with the
support of the Smarkets UK team behind you.
clearinghouses, or other financial infrastructure providers.
infrastructure in the United States, with direct responsibility for risk and system safeguards, not advisory or supporting
experience.
stress testing, and operational resilience requirements.
translating them into a defensible, audit-ready risk framework.
operational, and systemic risk. CFA or FRM certification is desirable.
with regulators at an institutional level.
stress testing and reporting, ready for go-live.
cyber threats, vendor and third-party dependencies, and compliance and internal control weaknesses.
planning into day-to-day operations.
clear escalation of significant events to the CEO and regulatory authorities.
jurisdictions (for example, engineering in the UK).
business.
dashboards and controls are audit-ready and CFTC-compliant.
regulated trading environment.
valued.
framework.
Our values are at the heart of everything that we do. We believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what's
expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us.
We offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Your work with us
will make an impact and your voice will be heard. We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We
have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development.
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DCM PUBLIC DIRECTOR / DCO INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR ABOUT SMARKETS Smarkets is a prediction market exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over $50 billion in volume since 2010. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a platform that offers the best value for traders, with not only the fairest prices but also the best technology, alongside a superior customer experience. ENTITIES Smarkets Board of Trade Exchange LLC Smarkets Board of Trade Clearing LLC ROLE SUMMARY Smarkets is seeking two senior independent non-executive directors to serve on the boards of both Smarkets Board of Trade Exchange LLC (a designated contract market) and Smarkets Board of Trade Clearing LLC (a derivatives clearing organisation). Each director will serve as a DCM Public Director of Smarkets Exchange and a DCO Independent Director of Smarkets Clearing. As this is a dual-board appointment, each candidate must satisfy both the DCM Public Director independence standard and the DCO Independent Director material-relationship standard; satisfying only one will not qualify a candidate for the role. The role provides non-executive oversight and constructive challenge, not day-to-day management; the experience we are looking for is set out below. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Sitting on both boards, the director will contribute to oversight of regulatory compliance, market integrity, risk management, operational resilience, system safeguards, settlement and financial resources, participant access, conflicts of interest, and recovery and wind-down planning — exercising judgment consistent with the public interest, Smarkets Exchange’s self-regulatory responsibilities, and Smarkets Clearing’s safety and regulatory obligations. DCM PUBLIC DIRECTOR — SMARKETS EXCHANGE Board-level oversight of the exchange’s regulatory programme — surveillance, investigations, disciplinary processes, rule enforcement, regulatory budget and resources, and the performance of the Chief Regulatory Officer. The director may serve on the DCM Regulatory Oversight Committee and other committees, supporting impartial decision-making and the fair, consistent application of the Rulebook. DCO INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR — SMARKETS CLEARING Board-level oversight of the clearinghouse’s risk management framework, settlement, participant eligibility, collateralisation model, default management, financial resources, system safeguards, operational resilience, and recovery and wind-down planning. One of the DCO Independent Directors will chair Smarkets Clearing’s Disciplinary Panel, Membership Committee and Appeals Committee, so candidates should be willing to perform committee chair duties — managing conflicts, ensuring procedural fairness, and overseeing disciplinary, membership and appeal matters in line with the Rulebook. CANDIDATE PROFILE Candidates would generally have at least 10 years’ relevant senior experience (or equivalent seniority, expertise or regulatory experience), drawn from areas such as: * regulated exchanges, clearinghouses, trading venues, or financial market infrastructure; * derivatives, event contracts, clearing, settlement, or market operations; * regulatory, compliance, surveillance, enforcement, or legal functions; * financial services governance or board service; * enterprise risk, cybersecurity, technology risk, or operational resilience; * audit, finance, or controls oversight; or * public policy, regulation, or public-interest governance. INDEPENDENCE, ELIGIBILITY AND CONFLICTS The director must satisfy the independence standards for both roles: * DCM Public Director: no material relationship with Smarkets Exchange — i.e. no relationship that could reasonably affect the director’s independent judgment. * DCO Independent Director: no material relationship with Smarkets Clearing. In particular, the individual must not currently be, or have been within the past year, an officer or employee of Smarkets Clearing or an affiliate, or a director, officer, or employee of a Participant or Introducing Broker. Candidates must also meet applicable fitness, integrity, competence, disciplinary-history, and disqualification standards, and are subject to Smarkets’ conflicts-of-interest policies: any actual, potential, or perceived conflict must be disclosed, and the director must recuse from any matter in which they have a conflict. The role is unlikely to suit candidates who are currently (or were within the past year) employed by Smarkets, an affiliate, a Participant, or an Introducing Broker; who hold recent material commercial, financial, or family ties to Smarkets; or who have a disciplinary, regulatory, or disqualification issue affecting director fitness. TIME COMMITMENT The director must attend quarterly board and committee meetings, review board materials, contribute to regulatory and governance discussions, and be available for urgent matters. Additional time may be needed for committee chair duties, disciplinary and appeal matters, regulatory and incident reviews, and meetings with management or regulators. PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES * independent judgment and sound regulatory instincts; * integrity and credibility; * willingness to challenge management constructively; * strong governance discipline and practical understanding of regulated markets; * ability to manage conflicts appropriately; and * clear, balanced, public-interest-minded decision-making and communication. DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We’re an equal opportunities employer and celebrate diversity in all its forms. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know — we’re happy to accommodate your needs.
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. The Production Engineering organization at Pinterest is accountable for ensuring overall Pinterest availability as well as enhancing Engineering teams' capability to design, build and operate robust systems at scale. Pinterest's applications and infrastructure handle billions of monthly page views and petabytes of data as Pinterest continues to grow and scale. As a Senior Production Engineer on Solutions Engineering, you will design and build AI agents, platforms, tools, frameworks and methodologies to assure the reliability of our large-scale distributed systems serving hundreds of millions of monthly active users, handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second, and managing tens of petabytes of data. You'll lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, build intelligent automation that eliminates operational toil and amplifies engineering productivity, and transform successful consulting patterns into reusable platforms that democratize reliability expertise across Pinterest's 2500+ engineers. What you’ll do * Design and build AI agents that augment production reliability work - Develop agents that assist engineers with service health analysis, reliability recommendations, migration playbook generation, and risk identification, enabling faster decision-making while keeping humans in the loop for critical judgment calls * Drive large-scale infrastructure modernization with AI-accelerated execution - Lead Kubernetes adoption and platform transitions using AI to generate automation, accelerate delivery, and create patterns that enable self-service adoption for standard use cases while tackling novel architecture challenges * Transform consulting patterns into scalable platforms - Execute scoped reliability engagements with engineering teams, then encode successful approaches into AI-assisted tools, automation, and self-serve documentation that enable teams to handle similar problems independently while escalating complex challenges to experts * Build the knowledge infrastructure that powers Pinterest's operational agent ecosystem - Create migration playbooks, operational runbooks, incident patterns, and best practices that democratize reliability expertise and raise the baseline capabilities of all Pinterest engineers * Develop software solutions to enable reliability and operability of large-scale distributed systems - Build a deep understanding of how Pinterest's systems behave, scale, interact and fail, and use that insight to identify risks and opportunities for remediation through automation * Build tools and automation to eliminate toil and reduce operational overhead - Create frameworks, processes and best practices that encode reliability expertise into software, making operational excellence accessible to all engineers while freeing experts to tackle harder problems * Build meaningful, insightful and actionable SLIs - Develop service level indicators that provide clear signals of system health and enable data-driven reliability decisions across Pinterest Engineering * Automate critical portions of Pinterest's engineering processes - Build automation that minimizes risk and maximizes the speed of innovation, enabling safe, rapid deployment and operational changes at scale * Manage capacity and performance to help scale our infrastructure - Partner with teams to plan and optimize capacity across public and private clouds around the world, ensuring efficient resource utilization as Pinterest grows What we’re looking for: * 5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, high-performance distributed systems * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience * Strong programming skills in Python or Go - ability to build production-grade platforms, agents, and automation * Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix internals and experience with open source infrastructure (MySQL, Kafka, Envoy, Hadoop, etc.) * Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes) * Experience deploying web applications to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and working with distributed, service-oriented architecture * Preferred: * Experience developing AI agents for infrastructure automation, operational decision-making, or reliability workflows * AI/ML infrastructure experience (LLM-based systems, model serving, agentic workflows) * Technical consulting or embedded SRE experience with cross-functional engineering teams In-Office Requirement Statement: * We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection. * This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6 months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country. Relocation Statement: * This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. #LI-REMOTE #LI-JT1 At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. US based applicants only $139,764—$287,749 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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