Chief Investment Officer
9.0/10
Rockbund
$165,000 – $275,000 USD
Office / on-site
lead
14 days ago
cryptofintechweb3Capital AllocationInvestingElectronic ExecutionBuilding Trading DesksSystematic TradingAI AwarenessMarket MicrostructureEquities TradingFutures Trading
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Description
What You Will Do
- •**Market Entry & Strategic Roadmap:** Evaluate and prioritize entry into traditional markets and instruments. Develop a sequencing plan based on market microstructure, liquidity, and electronic tradability.
- •**Organizational Architecture:** Design the team structure and drive the hiring of Alpha Researchers, Quant Traders, and Quant Engineers. Build a high-performance culture that balances aggressive growth with institutional discipline.
- •**Investment & Operating Plan (ROI):** Define and manage the required investment across market data, compute requirements, and connectivity. Track actual spend against delivered research and trading output to ensure disciplined resource scaling.
- •**Capital Allocation & Prioritization:** Create a framework for capital deployment across teams, strategies, and markets. Work with leadership to optimize risk-adjusted ROI, making high-stakes decisions on when to scale, pause, or retire strategies.
- •**AI-First Research Framework:** Partner with CTO to ensure AI/Agents are embedded where they create real leverage—accelerating research throughput, enhancing strategy reproducibility, and automating research-to-production (R2P) workflows.
- •**Operating Cadence:** Implement the discipline of regular post-trade analysis, research reviews, and promotion gates to ensure the business operates as a scalable "trading system" rather than a collection of isolated projects.
Why Join Us
- •Competitive remuneration package and a meritocratic culture where accomplishments are rewarded.
- •Fast paced and result-oriented with a flat structure.
- •Teams collaborate in a casual working environment.
- •Excellent exposure to the digital asset ecosystem and the latest market insight.
- •Great career development opportunities.
Requirements
Who You Are
- •**8+ Years of Systematic Trading Experience:** Proven track record at a top-tier prop trading firm or market maker, and mastery of market microstructure.
- •**Demonstrated ability to build new trading desks from scratch:** Convert a strategic vision into a hiring plan, and design operational frameworks.
- •**Strategic & Commercial Judgment:** Strong intuition on where to deploy time and capital. Ability to identify the right "beachhead" markets that align with the firm’s existing strengths.
- •**Asset Mastery:** Deep expertise in Futures and Equities microstructure and electronic execution across multiple global venues.
- •**Technical Depth:** Strong understanding of the full trading lifecycle: data normalization, simulation engines, execution algorithms, and risk management.
- •**Ownership Mindset:** A hands-on leader who thrives in high-growth environments where details are not yet predefined and clarity must be created.
- •**Practical AI Awareness:** A vision for how LLMs and agents reshape systematic research workflows, distinguishing between superficial tooling and true research leverage.
- •**Fluency in both English & Mandarin Chinese.**
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