Copy of Director of COO Office

Schonfeld•New York, NY

18h•$200,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a proactive leader to partner with Rates & FX PMs, driving business management, PM onboarding, business analytics, and cross-functional initiatives. This role combines strategic planning, operational execution, and data-driven insights to optimize performance, enhance efficiency, and support growth across the business. This person will act as the day-to-day business manager for Schonfeld’s Macro & Fixed Income platform in North America. This role reports into the COO of DMFI.

Requirements

7-10+ years in business management / COO, product or trading-related role on the buy-side (hedge fund, asset manager) or sell-side fixed income business. Strong preference for candidates that have already been in broad business management roles within hedge fund platforms.
NY Based
Deep product knowledge across rates and FX cash & derivatives: government bonds, swaps, futures, options, swaptions, NDFs, forwards, cross-currency swaps.
Strong grasp of pricing, valuation, = risk, funding & liquidity, CCP margin and capital usage.
Fluency with trading technologies: order & execution-management systems, market-data feeds.
Advanced analytical toolkit—Excel / VBA a must; Python, SQL or PowerBI strongly preferred.
Proven ability to negotiate commercial terms with banks, venues and data providers.
Exceptional project-management, prioritization and stakeholder-influencing skills; comfortable presenting to senior management.
Highly organized, proactive and able to manage multiple deliverables in a fast-moving market environment.
Impeccable integrity and discretion when handling sensitive trading and financial information.

Responsibilities

Act as a partner to Rates & FX PMs in North America, translating investment goals into resourcing, capital, and infrastructure plans.
Develop and own the business plans for various strategic growth initiatives and PM builds.
Continuously analyze desk P&L, risk, liquidity, funding and balance-sheet usage; recommend actions to enhance returns and capital efficiency.
Identify new product or market opportunities (e.g., cleared swap markets, NDFs, SOFR transition trades) and drive approval / launch.
Coordinate pre-launch testing, market data, and trading integrations for newly on-boarded PMs.
Lead onboarding of new Macro/Fixed Income PM teams: capital allocation sizing, risk limits, market-data entitlements, trading-system connectivity, and broker relationships.
Serve as escalation point and “trusted advisor” to existing PMs for any trading, infrastructure or counterparty issues.
Design dashboards on KPIs and business metrics; present insights to PMs and senior management.
Lead cost/benefit cases for data, analytics and technology spend; track realized savings and ROI.
Lead strategic, cross functional projects across operations, treasury, compliance, and technology—owning end to end delivery and change management, and ensuring these projects are appropriately prioritized in the overall book of work.
Run high-priority, cross-desk projects (e.g., CCP onboarding, FX TCA implementation, intraday risk enhancements) and own end-to-end delivery.
Coordinate with Legal / Treasury on ISDA, CSA, give-ups and clearing mandates to support trading strategies.
Own the vendor lifecycle for trading and analytics platforms (contract negotiation, SLA governance, ongoing performance reviews).
Stay abreast of emerging data/analytics vendors in macro and fixed income and evaluate fit for the platform.