Quantitative Team Manager

Viewline Ventures•Jersey City, NJ

11d

About The Position

We are a stealth-stage fund and tech startup operating at the intersection of alternative markets and quantitative strategy. Backed by experienced operators and growing quickly, we are building the infrastructure to scale a high-performance, data-driven business. Our strategies are identified by a small research team and then executed by an operations floor working through structured playbooks. The edge is real, but capturing it depends entirely on execution being accurate, fast and consistent. That is where this role sits. The Role You run the execution floor day to day so our Head of Quant can go back to research. Today he is doing both, which means the research half is not happening and the floor half is not being managed as well as it should be. You take the floor: the people, the training, the process, the error rates and the throughput. He takes back the work only he can do. The team you will manage is largely early in their careers, works to detailed playbooks, and is measured on output and accuracy. Output per person currently varies by a factor of several between the best and the weakest, which tells you most of what you need to know about where the opportunity is. You do not need to be a mathematician. You need to understand the workflow completely, care intensely about error rates, and be able to turn a clunky manual process into a written specification an engineer can build.

Requirements

Managed a high-volume execution, production or fulfillment floor where accuracy mattered as much as speed.
Think in checklists, standard operating procedures and error rates.
Believe a mistake is a failure of the system first and the person second.
Highly literate with spreadsheets and comfortable with basic data querying.
Spot patterns and anomalies that individuals working alone would not.
Write clear technical requirements.
Can describe a broken workflow precisely enough that someone can build the fix.
Uncompromising on standards and genuinely good with early-career people.
Rigid about hitting targets and flexible about how, and will operationalize a new playbook rather than resisting it.
Handle sensitive data and money-adjacent workflows with discretion.

Nice To Haves

Operations management at a trading firm, betting operation, payments company or similar.
Technical project or program management, or technical implementation leadership.
Managing distributed field teams across multiple states or provinces.
A competitive background in strategy games, poker, esports or trading.
Experience introducing measurement to a team that has never been measured.

Responsibilities

Raise output per person through training, better process, clearer standards and daily oversight.
Drive error rates down and keep them down.
Own training and onboarding for the floor.
Be the bridge to engineering.
Keep the hopper full.
Take the escalations.