Quant Desk Lead and Portfolio Manager (Crypto)

Company

Operates two funds with a systematic quantitative allocation, licensed fund infrastructure, independent monthly NAV, and independent risk management.

What you will do

• Lead the systematic quant desk and manage its trading book across both funds.
• Own P&L, position sizing, execution, hedging, leverage, and exposure within the risk policy.
• Research, build, test, and deploy systematic strategies into live trading.
• Own the research platform across data ingestion, backtesting, execution, and live risk monitoring.
• Set standards for realistic backtesting, including fees, funding, slippage, fills, turnover, and capacity.
• Report weekly on performance, risk, and attribution to the CIO and Risk Manager.

Requirements

• Live track record running market-neutral, long-short, statistical arbitrage, funding arbitrage, or cross-exchange arbitrage strategies with real capital.
• Experience with systematic, code-based trading and verifiable performance net of realistic trading costs.
• Strong understanding of crypto derivatives, including perpetual futures, funding, liquidation dynamics, margin, and risk.
• Production-level Python and full-stack ownership from data ingestion through execution.
• Strong validation discipline, including out-of-sample testing, walk-forward testing, and multiple-testing correction.
• Ability to evaluate whether an edge survives turnover, fees, spreads, slippage, and capacity constraints, while operating as the initial sole owner of the desk.

Nice to have

• MSc or PhD in mathematics, finance, computer science, or another STEM field.
• Portfolio management experience across crypto, equities, and options.
• Market-neutral or multi-manager pod experience.
• Cross-exchange collateral management experience.
• Familiarity with DeFi market structure, tokenized securities, AI, or robotics equities.

Culture & Benefits

• Existing multi-exchange data pipelines, historical data, signal library, backtesting engine, and execution and monitoring infrastructure on Google Cloud.
• Licensed fund structure with independent monthly NAV and an independent Risk Manager.
• Self-custody through an MPC wallet.
• Short decision chain and a fast route from strategy production to live capital.
• Fixed compensation plus 20% of P&L above an 11% annual hurdle after desk costs, subject to a high-water mark and loss carry-forward.
• Half of the performance award is paid on determination, with the remainder deferred for twelve months and subject to clawback.