Portfolio Manager - Tax Aware Long/Short Strategies - CANVAS ® Custom Indexing

Location: New York City, New York, United States of America

Annual salary: $195,000–$225,000, plus a discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is an asset manager whose O’Shaughnessy Asset Management division develops quantitative investment strategies and provides Custom Indexing services through the CANVAS® platform.

What you will do

• Develop and refine factor-based models targeting persistent sources of alpha.
• Research signals, portfolio construction methods, and cross-sectional and time-series relationships.
• Design and manage long-only and long-short equity portfolios within liquidity, risk, sector, and exposure constraints.
• Monitor real-time risk exposures, performance attribution, and portfolio performance drivers.
• Enhance statistical and fundamental risk models, systematic position sizing, short borrow management, and leverage controls.
• Collaborate with research, quantitative development, and trading teams to improve execution and reduce market impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in quantitative portfolio management or research, including long-only, long-short equity, or multi-factor strategies.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; C# is preferred.
• Deep understanding of portfolio optimization, risk models, and execution cost modeling.
• Demonstrated experience managing live portfolios and making data-driven investment decisions.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship; visa support is unavailable.

Nice to have

• CFA designation.
• Experience working with large data environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Transparent, disciplined, and research-driven investment culture.
• Annual discretionary bonus and a 401(k) plan with a generous match.
• Healthcare, insurance, disability benefits, and an employee stock investment program.
• Learning resources, career development programs, and reimbursement for certain education expenses.
• Paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, parental and caregiving leave, bereavement leave, volunteering leave, and floating holidays.
• Wellbeing programs and recognition rewards.