Crypto Portfolio Manager

Crypto Portfolio Manager - $1-1.5m TComp

High-sharpe, scalable automated trading strategies, academic excellence and top-tier HFT expertise are all to be found at this crypto shop based in New York. The fund in question has generated positive returns, every month since inception, a remarkable achievement when the price of the assets that it trades have gone completely the other way to the tune of over 80% in some instances.

The mandate for this Portfolio Manager? Building a team and from scratch to research and deploy high sharpe, trading strategies on CEXs. As such, you will need to have previously led a team who may have done this in traditional or digital markets previously.

The Role:

• Reporting directly into the founding team to build a team of Senior & Junior QRs who will develop HF alpha & automated trading strategies
• Hire, train and retain top-percentile quantitative research talent
• Collaborate with QD team on system design specifics for highly-scalable, event-driven systematic trading and research infrastructure

Existing team members share the following attributes:

• Top class academics from leading universities around the world (incl. 2 x top of class at Universities with <1% acceptance rates)
• Olympiad Finalists & Medalists, National Math Medalists, Visiting Scholars at the world's best universities
• An insatiable desire to research, create and test high performance research infrastructure and trading strategies for crypto
• Exceptional communication skills. This team has an extremely collaborative culture and expects future hires to be able to communicate complex ideas clearly

Note: this firm may well fall outside of traditional non-competes due to their focus on CeFi and DeFi trading strategies.