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About the Role
Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm seeking to drive firm-wide initiatives that require planning, coordination, and technical delivery across all groups including Core Engineering, Trading, Risk Management, Compliance, Finance and Operations. This role is essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do, enabling our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring projects are initiated, analyzed, planned, and implemented to meet defined business objectives.
- Leading and managing multiple projects simultaneously, often involving global, multi-functional teams.
- Leveraging industry experience to proactively request and discern business requirements from all departments.
- Identifying tactical vs. strategic solutions and highlighting tradeoffs for informed stakeholder decisions.
- Identifying recurring issues with technical debt and guiding prioritization of new projects to address them.
- Developing comprehensive project plans and documentation, including goals, timelines, resource allocation, budgets, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Directing cross-functional technical discussions and driving decisions involving system upgrades, digital transformation, software implementation, and emerging fintech solutions.
- Facilitating coordination and communication across business units, regions, and/or external parties.
- Contributing to centralized PMO support by offering project guidance, tools, and resources.
- Standardizing project management practices across the organization to improve planning, tracking, and reporting processes.
- Determining the appropriate level of administrative overhead for each project based on size and complexity.
- Managing projects for efficiency and execution first.
Requirements
- A computer science degree or equivalent.
- 5+ years of relevant project management experience in a global financial environment or technology-driven industry.
- Experience in the financial industry, specifically with front office market activities.
- Software development background, either through a CS degree or prior hands-on development roles.
- Ability to scope, manage, and execute multiple projects simultaneously with different timelines.
- Ability to pivot tasks quickly with evolving business needs and navigate ambiguous, high-pressure, or uncertain environments.
- Ability to support working across multiple time zones, as needed.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Hands-on experience in reporting and data analysis, creating progress reports, dashboards, and KPIs.
- Strong Excel skills, including data manipulation, pivot tables, and VLOOKUPs.
Skills
- Project Management
- Financial Industry Experience
- Software Development
- Reporting
- Data Analysis
- Excel (Data Manipulation, Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs)
- Communication (Written and Verbal)
Location
- New York City, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Computer Science Degree or Equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $200,000 base range, 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 empowers portfolio managers to build teams and strategies independently while providing economies of scale.
- Engineers develop electronic trading infrastructure, solving challenging problems in low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning.
- The company invests in top engineering talent and technology to ensure its platform remains unmatched.
- Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform, enabling trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.
- Tower offers a stimulating, results-oriented environment where colleagues inspire each other.
- Headquartered in NYC’s Financial District, Tower has a global impact with over a dozen offices worldwide.
- The company fosters a culture where smart, driven people thrive without egos, valuing a friendly, collaborative environment.
- Tower offers a collaborative and welcoming culture, a diverse team, and a workplace that values both performance and enjoyment.
Equal Opportunity
- Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.