Senior Director, Head of Investments

Key Responsibilities

• Help to lead and manage AIM’s trading and investment teams, including hiring, onboarding, training, and coaching of staff.
• Serve as a primary escalation point for complex investment issues, ensuring timely resolution, minimal trade errors and strong advisor relationships.
• Oversee new account transitions, ensuring a consistent and scalable onboarding experience for firms joining the AIM platform.
• Help lead the development of AIM’s new Alternatives Model Marketplace, including the selection of strategies to be included on the platform.
• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives and service standards that enhance operational efficiency, investment performance, and the advisor experience.
• Assist with portfolio management of in-house asset allocation, equity, and fixed income strategies.
• Partner with leadership across technology, product, compliance, and relationship management to ensure operational readiness for new platform capabilities and advisor growth initiatives.
• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate risk to AIM and advisory firm clients, arising from trading, investments, vendor issues, and other sources.

Skills / Qualifications

• 10+ years of financial services experience, preferably within a TAMP, RIA platform, custodian, or wealth management operations environment.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in managing a trading function (mutual funds, ETFs, equities, fixed income, and/or derivatives), investment selection, portfolio construction, alternative strategy platform, and traditional SMA platform.
• Strong understanding of RIA, TAMP, and custodial operational platforms and workflows.
• Experience developing and implementing operational procedures, scalable workflows, and process improvement initiatives.
• Able to manage complex operational issues and escalations while maintaining strong advisor relationships.
• Experience working with fintech product developers and managers to enhance productivity, improve accuracy, and implement new functionality.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• A self-starter with strong attention to detail, capable of working independently while collaborating effectively across teams.

Compensation

$115k, 30% bonus