Proprietary Trader / Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager — Proprietary TradingWe're partnering with an established proprietary trading firm on a search for a Portfolio Manager to run risk on their own capital. This is a risk-taking seat with full autonomy over your book.This is not portfolio management in the asset management sense, and it is not execution. You need attributable P&L in dollars from a book you ran yourself, not benchmark-relative returns.ResponsibilitiesRun your own book and your own risk with full discretion over strategy and sizingTake directional and relative value positions across your chosen productsManage risk in real time, including sizing, hedging and adjusting exposure through changing conditionsDevelop and scale your own strategies without a fixed house modelRequirements4+ years of profitable P&L in dollarsExperience running your own risk rather than executing for othersDepth in one or more of: equity options and volatility, capital structure arbitrage, listed derivatives, ETFs and index arbitrage, FX, macro or EM FX. Other products considered where the track record is strongComfort with data and execution toolingTrack record of performing in a high pressure, results driven environmentWhat's on offerNew York or Chicago. Competitive base plus a meaningful profit split on what you generate. Flat structure, short decision chain, no client business and no franchise flow.