Strategist, CIO Office (Equities)

Schonfeld•New York, NY

About The Position

We are seeking an Applied Quant Strategist to join the Chief Investment Office team, focused on the firm’s equities platform — covering both discretionary and systematic strategies across equities and equity derivatives. You will work directly with senior investment leadership to build the analytics, screens, and AI-driven tooling that support capital allocation and risk decisions across the firm.

Requirements

Background in quantitative research, strategist, or portfolio analytics focused on equities and/or equity derivatives; sell-side strats experience welcome.
Working knowledge of equities factor models, attribution, backtesting, and/or equity derivatives pricing.
Strong Python and SQL skills.
Hands-on experience applying LLMs and modern AI tooling to analytical problems.
Familiarity with Bloomberg or comparable market-data systems.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with full professional fluency in English.
Strong ownership and a track record of delivering results.
Self-starter, comfortable operating with ambiguity.
Nimbleness that is conducive to continuously being redeployed tactically to the firm’s highest ROI projects and requests.

Responsibilities

Design and build quantitative tooling that sharpens how senior leadership reads the equities and equity derivatives book.
Partner with senior investment leadership, risk, business analytics, and the firm-wide strats community.
Work alongside your FICC counterpart on enterprise-level initiatives and ensure the CIO has a holistic view into portfolio risk.
Lead efforts on quantitative screens and analytics across the firm’s equities and equity derivatives book.
Lead efforts on backtests and signal frameworks for cash equities and equity derivatives.
Lead efforts on AI-driven decision tooling for senior investment leadership.
Lead efforts on automated risk-monitoring (exposure, factor crowding, vol/skew, concentration).
Provide ad-hoc analytical support for senior investment leadership.
Establish and execute on recurring capital and fund management operational initiatives.