Head of Research (Fintech)

#Relocation #Amsterdam #Dubai #Montreal

🔬 Head of Research @ Technology-first hedge fund

We're looking for a Head of Research who will be responsible for building the research function as a scalable system.

About the Company
Our partner is a hedge fund where technology is the core of the business. The company builds trading systems at the intersection of financial markets, AI, and frontier technologies. The fund operates its own AI research lab, has stable long-term funding, and access to experimental hardware.

🛠 What you will do
• Build the research function as a scalable system, designing the structure that lets small, autonomous research teams operate independently while staying aligned with company goals.
• Define how each team owns its research direction, hypothesis, dataset, or scientific problem, and set clear interfaces between units.
• Establish the standards and processes that govern how ideas are generated, how tasks are selected, and how experiments are designed.
• Create the evaluation frameworks and feedback loops that make research output measurable and comparable across teams.
• Own how research priorities shift over time, including when teams are added, restructured, or wound down.
• Translate successful research into real, measurable impact on the business.
• Combine quantitative research depth, managerial discipline, and organizational design to build a research machine.

🧩 What we're looking for
• Proven experience leading quantitative research, trading research, systematic strategy, or data-driven investment teams.
• Deep understanding of trading, alpha research, portfolio construction, execution, risk, market microstructure, and the lifecycle of a trading idea from hypothesis to live deployment.
• Ability to structure autonomous research units, define their ownership areas, set clear interfaces between teams, and create objective ways to evaluate progress and output.
• Excellent managerial skills, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, compensation input, and resolving conflicts between teams or priorities.
• Experience setting research priorities at the portfolio level rather than micromanaging individual tasks.
• Ability to design dashboards, metrics, review rituals, and decision-making processes that make research output visible and comparable across teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to create alignment between researchers, engineers, data teams, risk, and senior stakeholders.

✨ What the company offers
• Locations: Netherlands (Amsterdam), UAE (Dubai) - relocation support provided; or Canada (Montreal) if you're already based there - official employment arranged.
• Work at the intersection of trading, AI, and frontier technologies.
• Opportunity to build systems from scratch.
• Access to an in-house AI research lab.
• Use of modern and experimental hardware.

📩 Contact
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