Quantitative Business Strategist

Radix Trading Experienced Job Board • Chicago, IL

4d

About The Position

As part of the Transformation Team, you’ll work directly with a range of teams and their leads to design and execute tools and processes for business optimization. You’ll build analytics and conduct research to help make business decisions. Specifically, you will work as internal consultants, product managers and strategists to help make intra-team and firmwide improvements.

Requirements

• Highly analytical.
• Ability to start with an idea and see it through small scale proofs of concept to a petabyte scale production-ready pipeline that is running firmwide.
• Acting like an owner that focuses on actual business impact rather than amount of code written.
• Able to understand the full scope and depth of the issue and to deliver long-term solutions that will stand the test of time.
• Ability to filter out irrelevant details and still identify key factors that will drive PnL.
• Able to iterate quickly towards a better solution.
• Strong self-awareness and high emotional intelligence to assist with interpersonal and communication improvements.
• Able to explain complex problems.
• Can sell value of own work to others.
• Willingness to have difficult conversations when necessary.
• Technically capable in C++ and Python.
• Willing to learn new technologies as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute tools and processes for business optimization.
• Build analytics and conduct research to help make business decisions.
• Act as internal consultants, product managers, and strategists to help make intra-team and firmwide improvements.
• Optimize the existing business (research, technology, and operations) by improving code, communication, and anything that it takes to get the job done.
• See ideas through small scale proofs of concept to a petabyte scale production-ready pipeline that is running firmwide.
• Focus on actual business impact rather than amount of code written.
• Understand the full scope and depth of an issue and deliver long-term solutions.
• Filter out irrelevant details and identify key factors that will drive PnL.
• Iterate quickly towards a better solution.
• Assist with interpersonal and communication improvements.
• Explain complex problems.
• Sell the value of own work to others.
• Have difficult conversations when necessary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree