Senior Project Manager (Infrastructure & Operations)

Location: Chicago, United States

Annual base salary: $160,000–$200,000, plus an eligible discretionary annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a diversified trading firm that combines sophisticated technology and experienced professionals to operate across global financial markets and non-traditional strategies including real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.

What you will do

• Lead infrastructure projects covering data center builds, expansions, migrations, hardware platforms, network connectivity, security controls, and foundational IT services.
• Manage a concurrent project portfolio from initiation through production deployment, owning scope, timeline, risk, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
• Own project bills of materials, coordinating with procurement and provisioning teams to source hardware and circuits and maintain cost visibility.
• Translate ambiguous technical work into structured plans with clear ownership and align engineering teams, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Coordinate production change windows, including required off-hours and weekend cutovers, while minimizing disruption to trading operations.
• Deliver exchange-mandated changes, security and data-protection initiatives, trading-desk and market-expansion programs, and infrastructure modernization efforts.

Requirements

• 8+ years of project management experience in technology or infrastructure environments.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams through complex technical delivery and managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Hands-on technical grounding in data center operations, compute, storage, network engineering, network security, systems administration, and enterprise platforms.
• Ability to review bills of materials, challenge estimates, manage cost and dependencies, and engage engineers as a credible peer.
• Strong ownership, self-direction, honest communication, risk management, escalation, and stakeholder-alignment skills.
• Eagerness to use and expand AI tooling for managing project complexity, information volume, and data alignment.

Nice to have

• Experience in trading or capital markets.
• Direct experience with infrastructure buildouts, data center migrations, networking technology, and hardware.
• Demonstrated use of integrated AI toolsets to improve project management efficiency.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Familiarity with Jira and ServiceNow.

Culture & Benefits

• High-performance environment emphasizing autonomy, integrity, curiosity, innovation, and constructive challenge.
• Employee medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with discretionary employer match, disability insurance, life and AD&D insurance.
• Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.
• Occasional off-hours and weekend work is required for production change windows.