Remote-First Broker Operations Principal

AtomicVest Inc.; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

AtomicVest Inc. is seeking a Principal Operations Officer to lead the day-to-day broker-dealer operations behind our self-clearing platform.

This hands-on role combines strategic design with supervisory leadership to ensure accurate trade settlement, clearing, corporate actions, and client onboarding. Based in the United States with remote-first flexibility, you will collaborate across FinOp, compliance, legal, and engineering to strengthen controls, automate key processes, and prepare for

Qualifications

• Active Series 27 and Series 24 licenses.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in broker-dealer operations, including leadership of an operations team.
• Direct experience with clearance and settlement, and with NSCC and DTC processes, at a self-clearing or correspondent clearing firm.
• Experience owning corporate actions, and daily books-and-records reconciliations.
• Working knowledge of net capital, customer protection (15c3-3), and FOCUS reporting, and how operational breaks flow into them.
• Ability to write and maintain supervisory procedures for operations functions and to defend them in a FINRA or SEC exam.
• Comfort building processes while the business is still taking shape.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end operational lifecycle for Atomic Brokerage: clearance and settlement, corporate actions processing, account onboarding and maintenance, and daily books-and-records reconciliations.
• Serve as a designated supervisory principal for operations functions; write, maintain, and defend supervisory procedures in FINRA and SEC examinations.
• Support FOCUS reporting and net capital compliance by maintaining clean operational data and timely reconciliation of all accounts.
• Partner with engineering to identify automation opportunities across reconciliations, exception queues, corporate actions workflows, and regulatory reporting.
• Collaborate with the FinOp, compliance, and legal teams on regulatory filings, exam readiness, and control design.
• Help shape the operational design and control environment as the business scales: building processes, procedures, and controls in a fast-moving startup environment.

Skills

Operational leadership

Broker-dealer operations

Regulatory compliance

Process improvement

Automation collaboration

Job description

AtomicVest Inc. is seeking a Principal Operations Officer to lead the day-to-day broker-dealer operations behind our self-clearing platform.

This hands-on role combines strategic design with supervisory leadership to ensure accurate trade settlement, clearing, corporate actions, and client onboarding. Based in the United States with remote-first flexibility, you will collaborate across FinOp, compliance, legal, and engineering to strengthen controls, automate key processes, and prepare for