Trading Manager

altruist; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Altruist's Trading & Brokerage Operations team is seeking a Manager, Trading to run daily workflows and the trade lifecycle across equities, options, and fixed income, while supporting Credit Risk. This is an individual contributor role, not a people leadership position, with ownership of workflows, escalations, and process quality.

The role is built for someone who aspires to lead by mastering the function first and who can drive scale and improved controls across the desk.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience on a trading desk or in trading operations.
• Hands-on experience with equity and options orders.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily order flow, routing, and executions across equities and options.
• Review orders and evaluate risk on trades that drop to review.
• Manage and work not held orders via algo strategies or RFQ.
• Serve as the desk's senior point of contact for advisor questions on orders, executions, and market events.
• Work fixed income order flow, including treasuries, municipals, corporates, and brokered CDs.
• Support Credit Risk by executing liquidations required to satisfy margin calls and debit obligations.
• Oversee trade break research and resolution, cancels and rebills, and trade error handling under policy.
• Execute daily desk activity in compliance with SEC, FINRA, MSRB, and exchange rules.

Skills

Trading desk experience

Equities trading

Options trading

Regulatory compliance

Job description

About Altruist

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

But first, our values

• Kindness - Kindness doesn't just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.
• Brilliance - Humility is the skill we're most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.
• Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it's hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.

The opportunity

Altruist's Trade Desk sits at the center of the advisor experience: every order, correction, and market event runs through it. As we launch Margin and Options and expand fixed income, we're hiring a Manager, Trading as a desk generalist to run daily workflows and the trade lifecycle across equities, options, and fixed income, while supporting Credit Risk functions.

This role sits within the Trading & Brokerage Operations organization and reports to [reporting manager]. It is an individual contributor role, not a people leadership role: a functional manager seat one step up from the Senior Analyst level, with deeper ownership of daily workflows, escalations, and process quality. It is built for someone who aspires to lead and wants to earn that seat by mastering the function first.

If you want breadth across asset classes and daily ownership of desk operations at a fast-growing custodian, with a clear path toward leadership, this role offers meaningful scope.

What you'll do

As Manager, Trading, you will be accountable for the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of daily desk operations across equities, options, and fixed income, and for supporting Credit Risk when accounts must be brought back into compliance. You will also contribute as a builder: embedded with Product and Engineering as trading capabilities are designed, tested, and launched.

Equity & Options Desk Execution

• Monitor daily order flow, routing, and executions across equities and options, resolving anomalies and escalating issues
• Review orders and evaluate risk on trades that drop to review, approving, rejecting, or escalating per policy
• Manage and work not held orders via algo strategies or RFQ
• Serve as the desk's senior point of contact for advisor questions on orders, executions, and market events

Fixed Income Order Flow

• Work fixed income order flow, including treasuries, municipals, corporates, and brokered CDs, across dealers and electronic venues
• Support advisor questions on bond availability, pricing, yield, and order status
• Flag pricing and settlement exceptions on fixed income trades and drive them to resolution

Credit Risk Support

• Support Credit Risk by executing liquidations required to satisfy margin calls and debit obligations
• Support Credit Risk in enforcing PDT, Good Faith, and Freeride restrictions on the desk
• Field buying power and restriction questions from advisors and route risk decisions to Credit Risk

Trade Lifecycle, Breaks & Corrections

• Oversee trade break research and resolution, cancels and rebills, and trade error handling under firm policy
• Maintain the trade error account process, including documentation, approval, and loss tracking
• Ensure clean handoffs between the desk, clearing, and settlement workflows

Regulatory & Control Responsibilities

• Execute daily desk activity in compliance with applicable SEC, FINRA, MSRB, and exchange rules governing order handling and trading
• Maintain documentation and exception evidence for desk workflows

Build & Scale

• Partner with Product and Engineering on trading feature buildouts across asset classes
• Design desk workflows that scale with volume, reducing manual touches and embedding controls from day one
• Identify where AI and automation can improve break triage, exception handling, and advisor response quality, and pilot those improvements

What you bring

We're looking for a trading professional who combines desk instincts with operational discipline, and who wants to grow into leadership.

Experience & Expertise

• 5+ years of experience on a trading desk, in trading operations, or in execution services at a broker-dealer or custodian
• Hands-on experience with equity and options order