Director – Atlas Risk Chief of Staff & Governance Lead – Aasp

Director – Atlas Risk Chief of Staff & Governance Lead – Aasp

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in risk management, strategy, or a related function.
• Proven ability to build and scale fit-for-purpose risk governance and oversight mechanisms in a dynamic, fast-growing business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to shift seamlessly between strategic planning and tactical execution.
• Fluency in financial risk concepts and frameworks; prior exposure to structured credit, and/or specialty finance highly preferred.
• Highly organized, intellectually curious, and resourceful, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Exceptional communicator with a strong bias for action and the ability to influence and manage up and across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Translate the CRO’s strategic direction into clear, actionable execution plans that ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Own and drive top-priority initiatives (‘what matters most’), whether standing up a new risk framework, addressing investor requests, leading remediation plans, or developing a reporting package.
• Drive and sustain momentum on high-stakes deliverables, often in areas of ambiguity: create clarity and direction, facilitate cross-functional coordination, ensure timely follow-through, synthesize insights, and proactively identify and escalate potential or emerging blockers.
• Build, enhance, and operationalize ATLAS SP risk governance, ensuring alignment with growth, strategy, and risk appetite.
• Develop and maintain enterprise risk policies, limits, tolerances, and escalation protocols.
• Partner with the ATLAS COO team to manage and refine enterprise-wide risk committee processes, ensuring materials, policies, and approvals are aligned with regulatory expectations and executive-level standards. Lead post-approval follow-up and track conditions such as sell-downs and other contingencies.
• Analyze risk trends, emerging issues, and cross-functional interdependencies; synthesize insights into high-quality deliverables for critical decision-making across investor, Board, rating agency, and internal leadership forums.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen stress testing, recalibrate risk appetite, and support portfolio oversight.
• Partner with Technology and Risk Analytics to lead the design, build and roll-out of risk dashboards, including portfolio ‘views’, for executive leadership, external stakeholders, and the Board. Own risk content to increase transparency into portfolio trends, themes, and drivers.
• Lead high-priority projects and facilitate cross-functional risk alignment in collaboration with Origination, Treasury, Finance, and Legal.
• Partner within ATLAS to integrate risk metrics into business planning and performance.
• Monitor and advance the reporting of early warning indicators, portfolio-level risk exposures, and counterparty concentrations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior exposure to structured credit, and/or specialty finance highly preferred.