Senior Project Manager, Investment Technology
Balyasny Asset Management L.P. · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
On-siteFinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Coordinate across Business Management, Data, and Technology to ensure day-one operational readiness
- Maintain and improve implementation and onboarding playbooks, documentation, and access provisioning workflows
- Manage full project lifecycle (intake, scoping, delivery, and post-implementation review) across technology, data, infrastructure, and operational workstreams
- Maintain consolidated view of the project portfolios; track milestones, manage dependencies, escalate risks
- Partner on strategic build-out initiatives: new strategy integration, asset class expansion, workflow development
- Coordinate on projects touching trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and multi-asset trade monitoring
- Serve as operational interface between Technology teams
- Run structured cross-functional meetings; drive agendas, capture decisions, enforce accountability
- Assist in delivering concise project status updates and risk summaries to the respective COOs and senior leadership
- Ensure risk and operational considerations are embedded in project planning from the outset
- Drive adoption and governance of Wiki, Asana, and Jira across the BOW management
- Define standards for project intake, tracking, escalation, and closure
- Build and support reporting frameworks providing real-time portfolio health visibility to leadership
- Identify and implement process improvements reducing friction for Portfolio Managers and researchers
- Facilitate translating business and research requirements into actionable technical specifications for engineering teams
Requirements
- 8+ years project management in a hedge fund or quantitative trading firm; multi-strategy platform experience preferred
- Familiarity with the broader investment lifecycle specifically in Credit (experience supporting Macro area is a plus)
- Working knowledge of quant trading infrastructure — research environments, backtesting platforms, data pipelines, execution systems, risk frameworks
- Understanding of market data and alternative data (vendor management, feed onboarding, data quality) and financial products (one or more of equity and interest rate derivatives, fixed income, credit, FX)
- Proficient in Jira, Asana, Confluence/Wiki, Excel, Sharepoint
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize complex, multi-threaded situations for senior audiences
- Strong stakeholder management across matrixed investment, technology, risk, and operations functions
- Highly organized; able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams across a large and growing PM/researcher population
- Proactive, self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity
- Willing to travel internationally (2+ weeks/year) and work flexibly across New York, Chicago, London, and international time zones