Global Banking & Markets, Quantitative Volatility Trading Researcher (Mid-Frequency), Vice President, Hong Kong

Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm founded in 1869, headquartered in New York with offices worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead the research agenda for systematic mid-frequency options trading, covering alpha generation, signal combination, and portfolio construction.
• Design and build research, simulation, and backtesting frameworks aligned with production behavior.
• Develop diagnostics for strategy performance, attribution, risk, and model stability.
• Research and implement alpha signals across intraday to multi-day horizons, and evaluate new underlyings, products, and regional markets including Asia.
• Design portfolio construction and capital allocation approaches balancing expected return, risk, liquidity, and trading frictions.
• Partner with traders, engineers, and SRE teams to productionize research, improve reliability, strengthen monitoring and controls, define research standards, and mentor junior team members.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systematic options trading, with meaningful exposure to mid-frequency or short-horizon volatility strategies.
• Demonstrated success in alpha research, signal evaluation, and portfolio construction in a live trading environment.
• Strong understanding of options pricing, implied and realized volatility, Greeks, and risk management across multi-instrument portfolios.
• Deep experience across the research lifecycle: idea generation, data analysis, simulation design, validation, production deployment, and post-deployment monitoring.
• Strong professional programming experience in Python, including research libraries, analytics, and production-facing tools.
• Excellent statistical and quantitative problem-solving skills with a rigorous approach to experimentation and inference.
• Experience working with large, high-dimensional market and trade datasets.
• Good judgment balancing research ambition with implementation realism, controls, and operational robustness.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with traders, researchers, engineers, and infrastructure partners, with a track record of ownership in fast-paced, high-accountability environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Training and development opportunities and firmwide professional networks.
• Benefits, wellness, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and professional and personal growth.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for candidates with special needs or disabilities.