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Risk Manager jobs across governance, risk, compliance, and AI governance.
Open Risk Manager jobs (21)
Hydro Commercial Risk Manager (EPC Projects) / Responsable des risques commerciaux Hydro (Projets EPC)
Artificial Intelligence Technology Risk Manager - Wealth, Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking
Risk Manager
Internal Project Manager / Risk Manager
Product Lifecycle Risk Manager, AVP
Model Risk Manager
Senior Operational Risk Manager
Lead Compliance Risk Manager, Product Compliance - AI
Enterprise Risk Manager - UAE
IT Risk Manager, BT Risk Management
Senior Fraud Risk Manager
Regional S&OP & Project Risk Manager – GSI
US Rates - Rates Market Risk Manager – Vice President
Risk Manager
Transaction Processing Operational Risk Manager - Vice President
Credit Risk Manager, Wealth Management – U.S. Commercial Real Estate - Vice President
Risk Manager, CN
Vendor Risk Manager
Senior Compliance Risk Manager - Securities Compliance
Senior Risk Manager
Senior Market Risk Manager
About the Risk Manager job
The Risk Manager owns how an organization understands and controls a category of risk: operational, technology, enterprise, or increasingly model and AI risk. Managers run risk assessments, set tolerances with leadership, oversee controls, and report risk to senior management and the board. They are the bridge between front-line risk-taking and executive accountability.
What a Risk Manager does
- Own a risk domain and its assessment, appetite, and reporting
- Set risk tolerances and escalate breaches
- Oversee the design and effectiveness of risk controls
- Lead a team of risk analysts
- Report risk posture to senior management and the board
- Build out model risk and AI risk oversight as adoption grows
Core skills
- Strong command of risk frameworks and quantification
- Executive communication and board reporting
- People and program leadership
- Judgment about acceptable exposure
- Cross-functional influence
- Fluency in technology and, increasingly, AI risk
Certifications that help
Train for these through the GRC Careers certification guides.
Where it sits on the career ladder
← Risk Analyst · Risk Manager (Management) · Chief Risk Officer →
How to break into this job
Risk Managers generally rise from analyst or specialist roles, or move in from audit, finance, or a technical domain. What distinguishes the step up is the ability to set risk appetite with leadership, own a domain, and communicate risk clearly to executives and the board.
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Sources: BLS, 2024 median
FAQ
A Risk Analyst measures and tracks risk; a Risk Manager owns a risk domain, sets tolerances with leadership, manages a team, and reports to executives and the board.
Model risk management is the discipline of governing the risk that models, including AI, produce wrong or misused outputs. It is one of the fastest-growing areas of the risk function.
The path typically leads to Director of Risk and then Chief Risk Officer, the executive accountable for the enterprise risk function.
Risk Manager jobs: what the market looks like right now
A snapshot built from the 21 Risk Manager roles currently on this page.
What these roles pay
Of the 21 open Risk Manager roles on this page, 10 publish a salary range. Across those:
- Median advertised midpoint: $174k
- Middle half of the market: $125k to $174k
- Full advertised range: $100k to $223k
Computed from the live postings on this page, not from survey data, and recalculated every time the board refreshes. Roles without a published range are excluded.
Where the work is
- Work mode: 4 remote, 0 hybrid, 17 on-site or unstated.
- Seniority mix: senior (18), executive (3)
- Employers hiring more than one: Deutsche Bank (5), GE Vernova (4), Mercury (4), U.S. Bank (2), Airwallex (2), OKX (2)
Skills these postings ask for
- risk register ownership
- control self-assessment (RCSA)
- quantitative risk modeling
- scenario analysis and stress testing
- KRI design and monitoring
How to get a risk management job — the full career guide for this field: entry routes, transferable backgrounds, certifications and salary by level.
Certifications that come up most
None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in Risk Manager postings to be worth knowing: FRM, PRM, CRISC, CRMA. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.
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