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About the Role

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm seeking to empower portfolio managers and trading leaders by identifying opportunities to grow or protect trading P&L. This role involves developing and evaluating initiatives, creating business cases, and serving as a senior thought partner to leadership. You will also develop and maintain senior relationships with financial market participants and represent Tower in industry groups.

Responsibilities

Partnering with portfolio managers and trading leaders to understand their strategies, business economics, constraints and priorities, and identify opportunities to grow or protect trading P&L
Developing and evaluating initiatives involving new markets, products, venues, trading capabilities, commercial partnerships, financing and clearing arrangements, market data, and infrastructure
Creating fact-based business cases using market and trading data, scenario analysis, and commercial judgment, quantifying potential benefits, costs, capital requirements, implementation effort, and risks
Serving as a senior thought partner to portfolio managers, trading leadership, and firm management, challenging assumptions constructively to help distinguish attractive opportunities from initiatives that are unlikely to generate sufficient returns, and prioritizing opportunities in the context of engineering capacity, organizational resources, risk, and expected commercial impact
Developing and maintaining senior relationships with banks, prime brokers, FCMs, executing brokers, exchanges, trading venues, clearing organizations, and other strategic counterparties
Advocating and negotiating on commercial terms, market access, financing and clearing arrangements, product design, venue functionality, and other strategic matters
Representing Tower in industry groups and promoting market-structure outcomes that support fair, resilient, and competitive markets
Leading complex cross-functional initiatives by coordinating with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Risk, Operations, and other internal teams, by establishing clear ownership, resolving dependencies, escalating decisions, and maintaining accountability for outcomes
Improving efficiency of internal processes through better data, automation, decision frameworks particularly where doing so increases speed, scalability, or commercial effectiveness
Promoting sound operating standards across the Americas Business Management team

Requirements

A bachelor’s or advanced degree from a top university
At least 10 years of relevant experience within quantitative trading, proprietary trading, a systematic hedge fund, electronic trading at a bank, a trading venue, or a closely related market-structure business
Direct experience working with portfolio managers, traders, quantitative researchers, or electronic-trading businesses
A demonstrated record of originating and implementing initiatives that produced measurable revenue, capacity, cost, capital, or risk benefits
Strong quantitative and commercial judgment, including the ability to analyze data, structure ambiguous problems, test assumptions, and translate analysis into decisions
A practical understanding of how systematic trading businesses make money, including relevant considerations such as liquidity, transaction costs, execution quality, capacity, exchange economics, financing, margin, market access, data, and technology
Deep expertise in at least one relevant asset class or market, with the ability and intellectual range to work across several others
Experience negotiating with banks, brokers, FCMs, exchanges, trading venues, or other financial-market infrastructure providers
Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make concise, well-supported recommendations to portfolio managers and senior management
Strong judgment, ownership, and the ability to operate independently while escalating material decisions appropriately
Experience engaging with industry associations or market-structure working groups

Skills

Quantitative trading
Proprietary trading
Systematic hedge fund
Electronic trading
Market structure
Data analysis
Problem structuring
Assumption testing
Negotiation
Cross-functional initiative leadership
Written communication
Verbal communication
Judgment
Ownership
Independent operation

Location

NYC’s Financial District

Work Type

Hybrid working opportunities

Experience Level

At least 10 years of relevant experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s or advanced degree

Salary/Compensations

$200,000 - $250,000 base salary plus discretionary bonus

Benefits

Generous paid time off policies
Savings plans and other financial wellness tools
Hybrid working opportunities
Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily
In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses
Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events
Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving
Social events, happy hours, treats, and celebrations
Workshops and continuous learning opportunities

About the Company

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998, built on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams with a 25+ year track record of innovation.
Tower is home to world-class systematic trading and engineering talent, empowering portfolio managers to build teams and strategies independently.
Engineers develop electronic trading infrastructure, solving challenging problems in low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning.
Ongoing investment in talent and technology ensures an unmatched platform in functionality, scalability, and performance.
Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform, enabling trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.
Employees find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where colleagues inspire each other.
Tower's headquarters are in the historic Equitable Building in NYC’s Financial District, with a global impact and over a dozen offices worldwide.
The company fosters a culture where smart, driven people thrive without egos, valuing a friendly, collaborative environment where everyone is respected and great ideas win.
The company offers a collaborative and welcoming culture, a diverse team, and a workplace that values both performance and enjoyment, with no unnecessary hierarchy or ego.

Equal Opportunity

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.