Director, Quant Strategist

Fidelity Investments • Boston, MA

3d • $126,000 - $255,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking to hire a Director, Quant Strategist to strengthen our US team. By combining hands-on quantitative research with team leadership, the successful candidate will be accountable for developing and monitoring strategies, ensuring model robustness, troubleshooting issues, and driving workflow enhancements. This role will play a central part in driving our DeFi research efforts and requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage and mentor a small team whilst coordinating our team efforts across multiple stakeholders, and cross-regional teams.

Requirements

• Technical Expertise Proficiency in Python (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, etc.) and SQL with the ability to write production-quality, maintainable code
• Strong grounding in portfolio mathematics, risk modelling and statistical methods
• Experience building and maintaining research infrastructure, including data pipelines, backtesting frameworks, and related tools
• Communication & Engagement Able to distill complex models into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate style and effective at working across teams and time zones, fostering strong engagement with colleagues
• Analytical & Research Skills Skilled at working with large, complex, and imperfect datasets, extracting signal from noise, and applying methods ranging from classical statistics to machine learning where appropriate
• Professional Experience Typically, 10+ years of relevant experience in digital assets, and/or quantitative research
• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related discipline)
• Previous experience managing or mentoring a small team of quants, developers, or researchers

Nice To Haves

• Prior exposure to DeFi yield strategies (staking, LP, lending, re-staking)
• Experience with systematic trading across traditional asset classes (equities, FX, commodities, fixed income etc.)
• Demonstrated initiative in generating ideas and improving processes
• Comfort working across time zones and collaborating with distributed teams

Responsibilities

• Strategy Research & Implementation Conduct research into yield-oriented strategies across of a range of market structures and venues, with an emphasis on identifying risk-adjusted return opportunities
• Design and run backtests to evaluate strategy performance, stress-test assumptions, and establish statistical robustness
• Help deeply analyze protocols to understand mechanics, risks, and potential drivers of yield. Translate insights into research hypotheses and strategy ideas
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting Act as a first line of response for alerts, coordinating with global colleagues to escalate and resolve issues quickly
• Translate lessons learned from monitoring into research and operational playbook improvements
• Team Leadership Manage and mentor a team of quants/analysts: run sprints, allocate tasks, and oversee objectives and results
• Conduct code and strategy reviews, enforce testing standards, and support professional development
• Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and delivery focus
• Risk & Stakeholder Interaction Present weekly PnL, risk metrics, and performance attribution to senior management
• Ensure transparent communication and reporting to internal stakeholders

Benefits

• comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
• market-leading retirement
• generous paid time off and parental leave
• charitable giving employee match program
• educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees