Director, Business Management (Quantitative Trading)

Location: New York, United States; hybrid working opportunities

Salary: $200,000–$250,000 annual base salary, plus eligible discretionary bonus

Company

Quantitative trading firm founded in 1998, operating a global platform with independent trading teams, electronic trading infrastructure, market access, data, compute, research infrastructure, risk management, and business services.

What you will do

• Partner with portfolio managers and trading leaders to understand strategies, business economics, constraints, and growth opportunities.
• Develop and evaluate initiatives involving new markets, products, venues, trading capabilities, partnerships, financing, clearing, market data, and infrastructure.
• Build fact-based business cases using market and trading data, scenario analysis, and commercial judgment.
• Advise senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions, prioritize opportunities, and quantify benefits, costs, capital needs, implementation effort, and risks.
• Develop senior relationships with banks, brokers, exchanges, trading venues, clearing organizations, and other strategic counterparties, including negotiating commercial terms.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Risk, Operations, and other internal teams while improving processes through data, automation, and decision frameworks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree from a top university.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in quantitative or proprietary trading, systematic hedge funds, electronic trading, trading venues, or related market-structure businesses.
• Direct experience working with portfolio managers, traders, quantitative researchers, or electronic-trading businesses.
• Strong quantitative and commercial judgment, including data analysis, structured problem-solving, assumption testing, and decision-making.
• Practical understanding of systematic trading economics, including liquidity, transaction costs, execution quality, capacity, exchange economics, financing, margin, market access, data, and technology.
• Experience negotiating with financial-market infrastructure providers and leading complex initiatives with senior stakeholders; excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in at least one relevant asset class or market with the ability to work across several others.
• Experience engaging with industry associations or market-structure working groups.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working opportunities and generous paid time off.
• Savings plans and financial wellness tools available in each region.
• Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily.
• In-office wellness experiences, wellness expense reimbursement, company-sponsored sports teams, and fitness events.
• Volunteer opportunities, charitable giving, social events, and continuous learning workshops.