SVP, Enterprise Risk Management Officer

Avidbank is a $2.6 billion commercial bank based in Silicon Valley serving the San Francisco Bay area and beyond. We are a highly responsive business bank, providing tailored financial solutions. We are advocates for our clients and specialize in providing innovative banking products and supportive services that exceed our clients' expectations.

Founded in 2003, we specialize in commercial & industrial lending, technology and asset-based lending, specialty finance, real estate construction, and commercial real estate lending. We have one branch in San Jose along with loan production offices in Redwood City and San Francisco.

Title of position: SVP, Enterprise Risk Management Officer

Position type:
Full-time

Pay range: $180,000 - $240,000

Division:
Risk and Compliance

Work Location Type:
Hybrid

Location:

San Jose, California

Avidbank is seeking a seasoned, strategic risk leader to serve as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management Officer. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this role leads the continued development and execution of the Bank's enterprise risk management program and provides independent, forward-looking oversight of the Bank's aggregate risk profile.

The Enterprise Risk Management Officer is responsible for strengthening the Bank's risk governance framework, risk appetite framework, enterprise risk reporting, and second-line oversight capabilities. This leader will ensure material risks are identified, assessed, monitored, controlled, and escalated in a timely and practical manner across the organization.

This is a high-impact leadership role with regular interaction with Executive Management, the Risk Oversight Committee, the Audit Committee, and the Board of Directors. The ideal candidate will bring strong commercial banking judgment, regulatory credibility, executive presence, and the ability to provide independent challenge while partnering constructively with business and functional leaders.

The Enterprise Risk Management Officer will help shape and elevate Avidbank's risk function during a period of continued growth, increasing complexity, and evolving regulatory expectations. Success in this role will be measured by stronger enterprise risk governance, clearer Board-level reporting, timely escalation of emerging risks, disciplined issue management, and practical partnership with leaders across the Bank.

• Lead the Bank's enterprise risk management framework, governance structure, policies, methodologies, and reporting practices to align with strategy, growth, complexity, and regulatory expectations.
• Own and mature the risk appetite framework, including metrics, thresholds, escalation protocols, breach reporting, management actions, and periodic refreshes for Board and committee review.
• Strengthen enterprise risk governance through effective committee structures, clear escalation practices, disciplined issue management, and documentation of key risk decisions and accountabilities.
• Prepare and coordinate Risk Oversight Committee materials, including agendas, enterprise risk reporting packages, supporting analysis, meeting minutes, and follow-up action tracking.
• Deliver concise, actionable enterprise risk reporting to Executive Management, the Risk Oversight Committee, the Audit Committee, and the Board, including risk trends, concentrations, emerging risks, appetite breaches, and remediation progress.
• Develop and oversee the Bank's risk and control self-assessment program to support consistent identification, evaluation, monitoring, and reporting of key risks and control effectiveness across the organization.
• Provide second-line oversight of core risk disciplines, including operational risk, model risk, third-party risk, new product and change risk, compliance risk, and other enterprise risk areas in partnership with functional leaders.
• Provide independent risk review and effective challenge for strategic initiatives, business plans, product proposals, outsourcing arrangements, technology changes, and other material management decisions.
• Partner with regulators, internal audit, executive leadership, and business owners to support examinations, audits, remediation efforts, control enhancements, and continuous improvement of the risk and control environment.
• Promote a strong risk culture and lead, develop, and retain a high-performing risk team capable of supporting the Bank's strategic priorities and increasing complexity.

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