Senior Project Manager, Systematic Trading

The Senior Project Manager for Systematic Trading will be a central coordination point for onboarding, project delivery, issue resolution, and tooling adoption across BAM's Systematic business. The Senior Project Manager will report into the Systematic Deputy COO; interfaces daily with investment, quant, technology, data, and risk teams.

Responsibilities

Onboarding

• Own end-to-end onboarding for new systematic PMs, quant researchers, and analysts across equities, macro, quant, and dedicated quant platform strategies
• Coordinate across Business Management, Data, Technology, and Risk to ensure day-one operational readiness
• Maintain and improve onboarding playbooks, documentation, and access provisioning workflows

Project Management

• Manage full project lifecycle (intake, scoping, delivery, and post-implementation review) across technology, data, infrastructure, and operational workstreams
• Maintain consolidated view of the Systematic project portfolio; track milestones, manage dependencies, escalate risks
• Partner on strategic build-out initiatives: new strategy integration, asset class expansion, ML-driven workflow development
• Coordinate on projects touching trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and multi-asset trade monitoring

Stakeholder Communication

• Serve as operational interface between Systematic investment teams and Technology, Risk, Data, and Compliance
• Run structured cross-functional meetings; drive agendas, capture decisions, enforce accountability
• Deliver concise project status updates and risk summaries to the Systematic COO and senior leadership
• Ensure risk and operational considerations are embedded in project planning from the outset

Tooling & Process

• Drive adoption and governance of Wiki, Asana, and Jira across the Systematic business
• Define standards for project intake, tracking, escalation, and closure
• Build reporting frameworks providing real-time portfolio health visibility to leadership
• Identify and implement process improvements reducing friction for PMs and researchers

Market Data & Technology

• Support onboarding of market data vendors and alternative data providers
• Coordinate cloud and on-premises infrastructure requirements across equities, macro, and quant strategies
• Translate business and research requirements into actionable technical specifications for engineering teams

Requirements

• 10+ years PMO / program management in a hedge fund, systematic asset manager, or quantitative trading firm; multi-strategy platform experience preferred
• Familiarity with the systematic investment lifecycle — signal research, portfolio construction, execution, and performance monitoring
• Working knowledge of quant trading infrastructure — research environments, backtesting platforms, data pipelines, execution systems, risk frameworks
• Understanding of market data and alternative data — vendor management, licensing, feed onboarding, data quality
• Familiarity with cloud analytics infrastructure (AWS) in a research or production trading context
• Proficient in Jira, Asana, Confluence/Wiki, Salesforce
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize complex, multi-threaded situations for senior audiences
• Strong stakeholder management across matrixed investment, technology, risk, and operations functions
• Highly organized; able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams across a large and growing PM/researcher population
• Proactive, self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity
• Willing to travel internationally (3+ weeks/year) and work flexibly across New York, Chicago, and international time zones