Senior Project Manager

X4 Engineering; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

X4 Engineering, partnering with a leading global multi‑strategy investment firm, seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead strategic onboarding and cross‑functional initiatives across investment, technology, data, and risk in New York. You will own large, high‑visibility projects and collaborate with senior stakeholders to enhance trading infrastructure and research platforms.

The role requires 10+ years in PM/PMO within hedge funds or quantitative investing, with strong communication, governance,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of PM/PMO in hedge funds or systematic trading environments.
• Strong understanding of the systematic investment lifecycle (research, portfolio construction, execution, monitoring).
• Experience delivering complex technology, data, infra, or trading platform projects in front‑office contexts.
• Familiarity with market data vendors, AWS cloud, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead onboarding programmes and drive cross‑functional initiatives across investment, technology, data, and risk.
• Own large, high‑visibility projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborate with senior investment leadership, technology teams and business partners to deliver trading infrastructure initiatives.
• Shape operational processes and governance for systematic PMs and researchers.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organizational skills

Front-office trading knowledge

Project governance

Tools

Jira

Asana

Confluence/Wiki

Job description

Senior Project Manager – Systematic Trading

Industry: Hedge Fund / Quantitative Trading

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $225,000–275,000 Base Salary + Bonus

X4 Engineering are proud to be partnering with a leading global multi-strategy investment firm that combines cutting‑edge technology, quantitative research, and systematic investing to drive performance across global markets.

As part of the continued growth of their Systematic Trading business, they're looking to hire a Senior Project Manager to lead strategic initiatives across investment, technology, data, and risk. This is a highly visible role where you'll own critical onboarding programmes, drive complex cross‑functional projects, and help shape the operational infrastructure supporting systematic portfolio managers and quantitative researchers globally.

Working closely with senior investment leadership, technology teams, and business stakeholders, you'll play a key role in delivering large‑scale initiatives across trading infrastructure, research platforms, market data, cloud technologies, and operational processes.

Key Requirements:

• 10+ years of Project Management or PMO experience within a hedge fund, quantitative asset manager, systematic trading firm, or investment bank.
• Strong understanding of the systematic investment lifecycle, including research, portfolio construction, execution, and performance monitoring.
• Experience delivering complex technology, data, infrastructure, or trading platform projects in front‑office environments.
• Familiarity with quantitative trading infrastructure, including research environments, back testing platforms, data pipelines, execution systems, and risk frameworks.
• Experience working with market data vendors, alternative data providers, and cloud‑based research environments (AWS preferred).
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across investment, technology, risk, operations, and business management teams.
• Proficiency with Jira, Asana, and Confluence/Wiki.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple high‑priority initiatives simultaneously.
• Multi‑strategy hedge fund experience.
• Experience supporting systematic PMs, quantitative researchers, or data science teams.
• Knowledge of trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and operational workflows.
• Experience driving process improvement and project governance across large engineering or research organisations.