Director of Risk, Fundamental Equity

Location: New York, New York, United States

Base pay: $225,000–$275,000 per year, plus potential performance bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a global multi-manager hedge fund investing across Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income strategies.

What you will do

• Oversee North American discretionary equity portfolios on a daily basis.
• Monitor style drift and identify and remediate concentration risks and stress exposures.
• Research risk and portfolio-construction requests from portfolio managers, investment professionals, and senior management.
• Analyze performance attribution to diagnose portfolio issues and support opportunistic responses to adverse events.
• Engage with portfolio managers on risk/reward dynamics, drawdown management, and portfolio construction decisions.
• Help enhance proprietary risk analytics and educate investment professionals on monitoring-tool outputs.

Requirements

• Degree in statistics, econometrics, mathematics, or financial engineering.
• 5–10 years of experience in a similar buy-side role.
• Prior experience with discretionary equity strategies.
• In-depth knowledge of equity multi-factor models and their applications.
• Proficiency with procedural programming in R or Python.
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, teamwork-oriented environment where ideas are encouraged at all levels.
• Learning and educational offerings to support continued development.
• Opportunities to contribute through internal networks, external partnerships, and service initiatives.
• Competitive benefits package and potential performance-based compensation.