Trader - Hedge fund

Principal Responsibilities: Execution & Trading Execute equity, ETF, options, and futures orders across multiple portfolios, selecting venues and algorithms appropriate to order size, urgency, and liquidity conditions Identify and evaluate actionable syndicate events — IPOs, secondaries, lock‑up expiries, and distributions — as sources of incremental alpha Cultivate sell‑side and prime broker relationships to source differentiated color, natural liquidity, and opportunistic blocks Portfolio Manager Coverage & Market ColorServe as a daily point of contact for Portfolio Managers on execution strategy, positioning, and market structure — helping translate investment decisions into well‑executed trades Synthesize and distribute market color to investment teams: macro and single-stock catalysts, institutional positioning and flows, factor and cross-asset trends, and their portfolio implications Contribute to idea generation and ad‑hoc analytical projects alongside PMs and the investment team Risk & Analytics Monitor factor exposures and market risk intraday across multiple risk models (e.g., Barra, Arcana), partnering with PMs to address outsized or unintended positioning Own recurring transaction cost analysis (TCA), working with PMs and brokers to measure execution quality and refine algo and broker selection Desk Technology & Automation Build and maintain desk tooling — automated reporting, execution analytics, and monitoring — in Python and SQLIncorporate LLM‑based workflows (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) for research synthesis, market color generation, and process automation Requirements3–5 years of trading or execution experience at a buyside firm or sell‑side desk, with working knowledge of cash equities, options, and futures Demonstrated execution judgment across varying liquidity conditions — algo selection, order pacing, and impact management Proficiency working with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) to build and automate — comfortable using them for coding, analysis, and process automation, not just Q&AAdvanced Excel skills Strong written and verbal communication; able to distill fast-moving information into concise, decision-ready color for PMsDetail-oriented and composed under pressure, with the judgment to elevate and the initiative to own problems end-to-end