COO of Investments

Soros Fund Management•New York, NY

3h•Onsite

About The Position

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1973, managing $28 billion in assets. It serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest charitable foundations. SFM operates with agility, permanent capital, and an unconstrained mandate, investing opportunistically with a long-term view across various asset classes including public and private equity and credit, fixed income, foreign exchange, and alternative assets. The firm fosters an ownership mindset, encouraging professionals to challenge the status quo, innovate, and take initiative, prioritizing development and constructive debate. SFM measures its impact by both returns and values, including environmental stewardship and social responsibility, operating as a unified team across geographies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Greenwich, Garden City, London, and Dublin, SFM employs 200 professionals. The COO of Investments plays a central role in shaping and delivering the firm’s investment platform, partnering closely with the CIO to ensure the organization is equipped with the capabilities required to drive long-term performance. The role serves as the primary interface between investment teams and central functions, driving clarity, prioritization, and execution. Reporting to the CEO / CIO and acting as a partner to the firm COO and investment leadership team, this role ensures that time and resources are allocated to initiatives that enhance decision-making, execution efficiency, scalability and long-term performance. Positioned at the intersection of investing, data, risk, and technology, the COO of Investments aligns execution with strategy; ensuring that portfolio managers and traders are supported by robust infrastructure, high-quality data and clear operating frameworks. The role requires strong judgement, strategic perspective, and execution discipline. The successful candidate will be able to synthesize diverse stakeholder objectives, rigorously evaluate trade-offs (including second-order impacts), challenge assumptions and drive implementation.

Requirements

Significant experience within capital markets (buy or sell-side) including direct engagement with portfolio managers and / or traders.
Strong understanding of investment processes, research workflows and risk management across asset classes and investment strategies.
Proven track record of leading teams and driving platform transformation.
Credibility and judgment to influence senior stakeholders and constructively challenge established approaches.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex investment, technical, and operational concepts into clear, actionable direction across diverse stakeholders.
Ability to think in systems, understanding how decisions across technology, data, risk, and workflows interact to impact investment outcomes.
Execution-oriented, with ability to translate strategy into execution.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
Intellectual curiosity and a consistent track record of learning and growth.

Responsibilities

Partner with the CIO and CTO to define and evolve the firm’s investment platform strategy, including decision support, risk, trading and financing systems.
Translate investment team needs into clearly defined, prioritized initiatives with explicit resource requirements, expected benefits, strategic alignment, and defined delivery timelines, ensuring accountability for timely, high-quality execution.
Partner with investment and technology teams to maximize the impact of AI across the investment process.
Work with CIO, Head of Equities, Head of Credit and Chief Risk Officer on the development of enhanced performance analytics across strategies (e.g., return quality, balance sheet efficiency, scalability, cost).
Identify structural inefficiencies and drive improvements to the firm’s economics through investment platform enhancements, considering both direct costs and second-order effects (e.g. efficiency, scalability).
Contribute to long-term planning, including capacity management, strategy evolution, and expansion into new areas of investment.
Act as a critical thought partner to investment teams, challenging assumptions, facilitating productive debate, and driving alignment and execution across functions.
Lead onboarding of new portfolio managers and teams, ensuring full operational readiness across systems, data, risk, and operations prior to capital deployment.
Oversee new product and strategy launches, including mandates, guidelines, infrastructure, and controls.
Drive alignment across teams on key inputs such as data definitions, exposures, and risk assumptions where consistency is critical.
Ensure the investment platform operates as an consolidated system across front, middle, and back office functions.
Partner with the Head of Data to maintain high standards of data integrity, consistency, and accessibility.
Maintain robust infrastructure supporting trading, risk, analytics, and reporting, with a focus on reliability and scalability.
Define and monitor key operating metrics (efficiency, cost, service quality).
Partner with Technology, Risk, Data, and Operations to continuously improve workflows, with a focus on automation and eliminating manual processes.
Ensure governance controls are appropriately calibrated to manage risk without unduly compromising speed or flexibility.