Trading Operations Manager

The Role: We’re looking for an experienced Operations Manager to run our brokerage operations, help stand up RIA operations, and build the operating model for a world where a growing share of account activity is initiated by AI agents rather than people tapping buttons. You’ll own the day-to-day desk, design agentic workflows that let a small team operate with the reach of a large one, and help define the controls that make agent-driven investing safe for clients and the firm. There’s no established industry playbook for much of this. We want someone with deep operational fundamentals and the judgment to write the playbook with us. New responsibilities group, placed after “Design agentic operations”:Operate for clients’ AI agents Help define how client-authorized AI agents access accounts and act on them: authorization and consent records, permission scopes, limits, and revocation Build monitoring and surveillance for agent-originated activity, such as abnormal order patterns, runaway or looping agents, and activity outside authorized scope, with clear kill-switch and escalation procedures Own error resolution for agent-initiated orders and account actions, including client communication and root-cause analysis Work with compliance to keep supervision, trade surveillance, and written procedures current as agent activity grows Additional qualification: Familiarity with API-based or algorithmic order flow and the supervisory and risk controls it requires (market access controls, algorithmic trading supervision); experience with API brokerage clients is a strong plus Series 7 is a must; Series 4 is a plus