Director, Enterprise Risk Management

Powering the next generation of global finance About us Founded in 2018, Bakkt , Inc. is a regulated financial technology company building infrastructure for the future of finance.

Bakkt 's platform serves financial institutions, fintechs, and consumer finance products — providing the compliance, security, and scale required to deliver trusted financial services at a global level.

Through its core business pillars, Bakkt powers institutional-grade trading capabilities, AI-enabled programmable finance, and cross-border payment infrastructure.

Role Summary We are looking for an absolute doer, not a delegator.

Reporting to the Head of Risk, this is an individual contributor role where you will operate essentially as a one-person ERM team .

If you are looking to sit in a Second Line ivory tower, review other people’s work, and write high-level policy memos, this is not the role for you.

In our lean, fast-scaling environment, you must have the willingness and capability to completely roll up your sleeves and own the entire risk lifecycle from A to Z.

You are the Stage 1 triager who drops everything to dive into messy data, investigate real-time incidents, and cut through noise to diagnose what is broken.

Simultaneously, you are the Stage 2 builder who executes the actual grunt work required to fix it—writing the risk registers, configuring the tracking tools, co-designing automated controls with engineers, and building your own executive slide decks.

We want a gritty, highly technical creator who treats risk as an operational engineering problem and leverages AI and automation to scale themselves, ensuring that a lean infrastructure can punch way above its weight.

Key Responsibilities ERM Framework & Governance Design, implement, and continuously improve the Enterprise Risk Management framework, risk taxonomy, risk registers, and risk appetite statements specific to digital assets and regulated financial services.

Provide strategic direction for risk mitigation and operational improvement initiatives, guiding them from conception through completion in partnership with First Line business owners.

Validate the design and implementation of sustainable controls established by the First Line to address identified risks, audit findings, and compliance gaps.

Maintain and evolve risk policies, standards, and procedures aligned with regulatory expectations (including NYDFS) and industry best practices.