Head of Risk (m/f/d) - Berlin

Your Mission

Your Impact

We are looking for a

Head of Risk

to lead and stabilize our risk organization during a phase of rapid growth. This role replaces our interim leadership and is critical for building a long-term, scalable risk function that enables sustainable growth. You will lead a growing team, manage a rapidly expanding credit portfolio, and build the processes, systems, and culture required for scale. This is not a maintenance role.This is a

build-and-lead role

. You will work directly with the founder and leadership team and have full ownership of the risk function.

Your Mission

• Lead and develop the Risk team, creating clarity, structure, and strong performance standards
• Own credit underwriting quality and portfolio performance across B2B and B2C
• Build scalable risk processes, policies, and decision frameworks to support rapid growth
• Drive automation, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making in the risk function
• Balance growth and risk while ensuring losses remain within defined risk appetite
• Work hands-on where needed while shaping the long-term risk strategy

Your Talent

Your Talent

• Strong experience in credit risk and underwriting, ideally across both B2B and consumer lending
• Proven leadership experience, with the ability to build and develop high-performing teams
• A hands-on mindset combined with strategic thinking
• The ability to operate effectively in fast-changing, imperfect environments
• A strong ownership mentality and drive to make things happen
• A data-driven approach to decision-making
• Why This Role is Unique
• Massive real-world impact in climate and energy
• Direct collaboration with the founder
• Opportunity to build your own risk organization
• High ownership and autonomy
• Rapid company growth
• Large institutional funding
• Ability to shape how risk works at scale

Our Offer

Growth & Culture

We move fast, we’re building a lot from scratch, and we’re learning something new every day. You’ll be part of a team that doesn’t just work, it truly builds something, with a strong sense of ownership and genuine team spirit.

Impact

• Your job has a direct impact on the energy transition. Period.
• And because this is important to us, we offer extra days off for climate activism.

Flexibility

• We work in a hybrid, trust-based environment.
• Working from home is the norm for us, two days a week are standard and flexible. We structure the rest in whatever way best supports collaboration and focus within the team.
• And if it works for you and your team, you can also work from other locations, workations are possible here.

Perks

You’ll receive a flexible bonus that you can use however you like, sports, culture, travel, whatever works for you.

Food & Energy

Long days happen. When the office is running, so is the food: just order something to the office via Wolt.

Team & Vibe

• We take our mission seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously.
• Offsites, team nights, and our “Bees & Beers” are just as much a part of the job as the work itself.