Director of Enterprise Risk Management

📋 Description

• • The Director of Enterprise Risk Management will lead and grow the Risk team’s ERM function for Upstart Bank, establishing and maintaining the bank’s enterprise risk management framework to support its application to become a nationally chartered bank.
• • Day to day, the role involves defining and maintaining the ERM framework including risk appetite statements and methodologies, leading enterprise risk assessments, managing risk and control inventories, measuring risk via key risk indicators, directing ERM and operational risk program activities, overseeing board and risk committee reporting, serving as a primary point of contact for external stakeholders such as OCC examiners, and managing and hiring for the ERM and Operational Risk teams.
• • The Risk team at Upstart serves as the second line of defense, providing independent oversight and credible challenge across operational risk, treasury risk (including liquidity, interest rate, price risk, and capital management), and ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations through close partnership with first-line functions, senior leadership, and the board.
• • In this role, the individual will build out risk infrastructure to meet the rigorous standards of a national bank, gain deep experience in bank charter processes, develop leadership in cross-functional risk governance, and establish themselves as a trusted advisor to executives, regulators, and external partners while shaping a mature, scalable ERM function.