Senior Project Manager
Listed on 2026-08-28
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IT/Tech
Senior Project Manager – Systematic Trading
Industry: Hedge Fund / Quantitative Trading
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $225,000–275,000 Base Salary + Bonus
X4 Engineering are proud to be partnering with a leading global multi-strategy investment firm that combines cutting-edge technology, quantitative research, and systematic investing to drive performance across global markets.
As part of the continued growth of their Systematic Trading business, they're looking to hire a Senior Project Manager to lead strategic initiatives across investment, technology, data, and risk. This is a highly visible role where you'll own critical onboarding programmes, drive complex cross-functional projects, and help shape the operational infrastructure supporting systematic portfolio managers and quantitative researchers globally.
Working closely with senior investment leadership, technology teams, and business stakeholders, you'll play a key role in delivering large-scale initiatives across trading infrastructure, research platforms, market data, cloud technologies, and operational processes.
Key Requirements:- 10+ years of Project Management or PMO experience within a hedge fund, quantitative asset manager, systematic trading firm, or investment bank.
- Strong understanding of the systematic investment lifecycle, including research, portfolio construction, execution, and performance monitoring.
- Experience delivering complex technology, data, infrastructure, or trading platform projects in front-office environments.
- Familiarity with quantitative trading infrastructure, including research environments, back testing platforms, data pipelines, execution systems, and risk frameworks.
- Experience working with market data vendors, alternative data providers, and cloud-based research environments (AWS preferred).
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across investment, technology, risk, operations, and business management teams.
- Proficiency with Jira, Asana, and Confluence/Wiki.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.
- Multi-strategy hedge fund experience.
- Experience supporting systematic PMs, quantitative researchers, or data science teams.
- Knowledge of trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and operational workflows.
- Experience driving process improvement and project governance across large engineering or research organisations.
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