Senior Project Manager

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.'s Data organization is seeking a Senior Project Manager to coordinate onboarding, delivery, issue resolution, and tooling adoption across market data and data platforms. You will report to the Principal Project Manager and interact daily with technology, vendor, and investment teams.

In this role, you will lead cross-functional initiatives, manage end-to-end projects, and ensure governance and risk considerations are embedded in planning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years PMO/program management in hedge fund or quantitative trading environment.
• Strong knowledge of market data and data platforms.
• Proficient with Jira, Asana, Confluence/Wiki, Excel and Sharepoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize complex, multi-threaded situations for senior audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management across matrixed investment, technology, risk, and operations functions.
• Highly organized; able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams across a large and growing PM/researcher population.
• Willing to travel internationally (2+ weeks/year) and work flexibly across New York, Chicago, London, and international time zones.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate onboarding across Business Management, Data, and Technology to ensure day-one operational readiness.
• Maintain and improve implementation and onboarding playbooks, documentation, and access provisioning workflows.
• Manage full project lifecycle (intake, scoping, delivery, and post-implementation review) across technology, data, infrastructure, and operational workstreams.
• Maintain consolidated view of the project portfolios across Market Data and Data Platform areas; track milestones, manage dependencies, escalat Risks.
• Partner on strategic build-out initiatives: new strategy integration, asset class expansion, data platform and onboarding, and workflow development.
• Coordinate on projects touching external vendors, trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and multi-asset data processing.
• Serve as operational interface between Technology teams; run structured cross-functional meetings; drive agendas, capture decisions, enforce accountability.
• Assist in delivering concise project status updates and risk summaries to the respective COOs and senior leadership.
• Ensure risk and operational considerations are embedded in project planning from the outset.
• Drive adoption and governance of Wiki, Asana, and Jira across the BOW management.
• Define standards for project intake, tracking, escalation, and closure.
• Build and support reporting frameworks providing real-time portfolio health visibility to leadership.
• Identify and implement process improvements reducing friction for PMs and researchers.
• Translate business and research requirements to actionable technical specifications for engineering teams.

Skills

PMO experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Asana

Confluence/Wiki

Excel

Sharepoint

Job description

The Senior Project Manager will be a central coordination point for onboarding, project delivery, issue resolution, and tooling adoption across BAM's Data organization with specialized focus on market data and data platforms. The Senior Project Manager will report into the Principal Project Manager supporting these areas, and shall interface daily with technology, vendor, and investment teams.

Responsibilities

Onboarding

• Coordinate across Business Management, Data, and Technology to ensure day-one operational readiness
• Maintain and improve implementation and onboarding playbooks, documentation, and access provisioning workflows

Project Management

• Manage full project lifecycle (intake, scoping, delivery, and post-implementation review) across technology, data, infrastructure, and operational workstreams
• Maintain consolidated view of the project portfolios across Market Data and Data Platform areas; track milestones, manage dependencies, escalat Risks
• Partner on strategic build-out initiatives: new strategy integration, asset class expansion, data platform and onboarding, and workflow development
• Coordinate on projects touching external vendors, trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and multi-asset data processing

Stakeholder Communication

• Serve as operational interface between Technology teams
• Run structured cross-functional meetings; drive agendas, capture decisions, enforce accountability
• Assist in delivering concise project status updates and risk summaries to the respective COOs and senior leadership
• Ensure risk and operational considerations are embedded in project planning from the outset

Tooling & Process

• Drive adoption and governance of Wiki, Asana, and Jira across the BOW management
• Define standards for project intake, tracking, escalation, and closure
• Build and support reporting frameworks providing real-time portfolio health visibility to leadership
• Identify and implement process improvements reducing friction for PMs and researchers
• Translate business and research requirements to actionable technical specifications for engineering teams

Requirements

• 8+ years PMO / program management in a hedge fund or quantitative trading firm; multi-strategy platform experience preferred
• Good understanding of market data and alternative data (vendor management, feed onboarding, data quality, data symbology and cataloging) as it pertains to financial products (fixed income, credit, FX, equity, etc.)
• Proficient in Jira, Asana, Confluence/Wiki, Excel, Sharepoint
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize complex, multi-threaded situations for senior audiences
• Strong stakeholder management across matrixed investment, technology, risk, and operations functions
• Highly organized; able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams across a large and growing PM/researcher population
• Proactive, self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity
• Willing to travel internationally (2+ weeks/year) and work flexibly across New York, Chicago, London, and international time zones