Quantitative Product Strategist

Our mission is to leverage the firm's large and diverse order flow and resources to increase electronic execution quality for all internal and external customers. We create services that support the enterprise by retaining and enhancing alpha and increasing customer and shareholder value. We will extend these services, where appropriate, to external institutions.
We are team is a small group of hands-on problem-solvers focused on trading and data analytics. This is the team that created a buy-side trading platform that was launged last year. Our associates have exceptional interpersonal skills, smoothly navigate large organizations, and are sharply focused on client needs and flawless execution. The Quantitative Analyst is an engineer at heart, extremely details-oriented, capable of creative, independent problem solving in a diverse range of business applications. A strong background in hard sciences, statistics, engineering, and/or mathematics is a must, as is experience with programming.

Primary Responsibilities

• Drive and shape the development of the firm's initiatives, including participation in the full product life cycle: R&D, proposal, technical development, documentation, training, and marketing
• Shape our analytics and data strategy
• Close collaboration with partners throughout the parent firm
• Play an active client-facing role - both internal and external clients
• Direct interaction with technology partners
• Position will require client presentations and some travel

Qualifications
Education and Experience

• 5+ years exposure to electronic trading, quantitative asset management, or other serious technical discipline on the business side of the financial services industry

Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrated experience with complex financial data sets
• Ability to grasp deep technical concepts related to electronic equity trading technology, including communication protocols, infrastructure (hardware, network, OS), security, web-based services, programming languages, etc.
• Comfort with navigating deep market structure conversations
• Superior verbal, written communication skills, and presentation skills, appropriate to all levels of internal and customer audiences
• Natural grasp of trading benchmarks and analytics: IS, VWAP, PWP, momentum, reversion, etc.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously