$30bn+ investment manager - New Quant team - Founding quant desk strat

A global AI first $30bn+ alternative asset manager is building a brand-new Quantitative Desk Strats capability inside its existing Quant research and trading team. We are helping them find the first hands-on Strats to build it.

These are rare "founding" seats. You will sit at the intersection of quant research, trading, and front-office technology — the bridge that turns investment research into the pricing, risk, and analytics tools the desks actually trade on.

What you would own

• Building the Strats function from the ground up: pricing, risk management, PnL, portfolio optimization, and capital-usage tools for the front office.
• Partnering directly with traders, PMs, quant researchers, and risk to ship models and analytics that drive revenue and manage risk.
• Standing up real-time analytics for liquidity provision, hedging, and portfolio management — fast, trader-ready, production-grade.
• Deploying models rapidly and robustly into environments that run at trading speed.

The role starts focused on the Strats buildout and has a clear path to broaden across Quant Research and Quant Trading as the team grows.

What they are looking for

• 5+ years in quantitative strategy, Desk Strats, or front-office quant research at a top-tier bank, hedge fund, or asset manager. Understanding of the "strats" role pioneered at Goldman Sachs is essential.
• Strong maths/stats/financial-engineering foundation; asset, liability, or derivative pricing, risk modelling, and investment optimization.
• Production-grade coding — Python strongly preferred, C++/Java a plus.
• A track record of working shoulder-to-shoulder with trading desks and delivering measurable commercial impact.
• Experience in one or more of Credit, Rates, Equities, Crypto, Reinsurance, or Alternatives. Experience in Securitized products is a big plus

This firm values humility, long-term thinking, and a collaborative owner's mindset. They are rapidly growing and reward very competitive compensation for the best candidates.

Interested? Apply now, interviews have already commenced and they want to have these roles filled within 8-12 weeks.