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Role Overview
Head of Market Surveillance at Bybit, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform. This role is based at Bybit's global operations.
Company Overview
Established in 2018, Bybit is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital financial platforms, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions. The company delivers a seamless ecosystem across trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3. Bybit is recognized as one of the most trusted and transparent platforms in the digital asset industry, supported by 24/7 multilingual customer service and a strong commitment to innovation.
Role Purpose
Build and lead the trading risk control function to protect the Bybit platform and users from market manipulation, abnormal trading behavior, and systemic risk. Own the end-to-end framework spanning Spot, Derivatives (Futures & Options), Copy Trading, and Institutional products.
Key Responsibilities
Framework & Strategy
- Design and implement the overarching market surveillance architecture, including policies, procedures, and governance frameworks.
- Develop short- and long-term roadmaps for surveillance capabilities aligned with business growth and regulatory evolution.
- Establish a full-lifecycle risk control system to proactively identify and mitigate user-behavior-driven risks before they materialize into losses or complaints.
Cross-Product Risk Governance
- Own surveillance coverage across Spot, Futures, Options, Copy Trading, and Institutional/OTC product lines.
- Detect and mitigate market manipulation (wash trading, spoofing/layering, pump-and-dump, front-running, etc.), abnormal trading patterns, and whale-concentration risks.
- Define alert thresholds, escalation protocols, and enforcement actions (warnings, restrictions, liquidation safeguards).
Strategy Development & Intelligence
- Build and continuously refine quantitative detection models and rule engines for manipulation identification and real-time intervention.
- Leverage data analytics and machine learning to improve detection precision and reduce false positives.
- Stay current on emerging manipulation tactics in crypto markets and adapt surveillance strategies accordingly.
Team Leadership
- Recruit, develop, and performance-manage a high-caliber surveillance team (analysts, quant developers, investigators).
- Drive the team toward standardization, automation, and intelligent (AI-assisted) operations.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and cross-functional collaboration with Compliance, Legal, Product, and Engineering.
Qualifications & Experience
- Master's degree or above in Finance, Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of market surveillance or trading risk control experience at a top-tier centralized exchange (CEX) or equivalent financial institution.
- Deep familiarity with CEX product mechanics and the risk scenarios that lead to customer disputes or financial losses.
- Strong understanding of common market manipulation typologies and detection methodologies; able to articulate a personal surveillance philosophy.
- Experience with regulatory frameworks (MiCA, MAS, JFSA, or equivalent) applicable to crypto trading platforms (nice-to-have).
- Track record of building surveillance systems from the ground up (0→1) (nice-to-have).
Skills & Competencies
- Hands-on capability in strategy and rule development and data analysis (SQL, Python, or similar).
- Familiarity with real-time streaming architectures (Flink, Kafka) and ML-based anomaly detection (nice-to-have).
- Multilingual communication skills (English + Mandarin preferred) (nice-to-have).
Additional Information
- Study Growth Fund: Professional development and continuous learning support.
- Internal Events: Participation in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
- Global Collaboration: Work as part of a diverse, international team alongside colleagues from around the world.
- Career Advancement: Access to growth and advancement opportunities within a rapidly expanding global company.
- Internal Mobility: Internal job opportunities to help build your long-term career path.