Who We Are
Our client is a proprietary trading and venture investment firm with significant capital deployed across liquid digital asset markets. The team combines quantitative, modeldriven strategies with institutional execution standards, focusing on systematic, mediumfrequency alpha generation.
The firm operates with a lean, highownership structure and a strong buyside culture. Team members sit close to risk, with direct accountability for research quality, execution, and real PnL outcomes in a fastpaced, performancedriven environment.
We Are Seeking: Senior Systematic Portfolio Manager
This role focuses on building, deploying, and managing scalable, systematic trading strategies that generate repeatable, datadriven alpha, with direct responsibility for PnL.
You will own the full researchtoproduction lifecycle, manage a meaningful trading book, and iterate based on live performance. This is a senior PMtrack seat suited for midcareer traders with a proven, repeatable track record.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop systematic trading signals from onchain and market microstructure data
- Build, test, deploy, and iterate models used in live trading
- Manage a real PnLbearing book with direct mandate ownership
- Lead the full cycle of research validation deployment iteration
- Work closely with execution and engineering teams on routing and portfolio construction
- Continuously refine strategies based on attribution, market regimes, and realised performance
MustHaves
- Buyside trading or quantitative research experience from a toptier hedge fund, quant fund, or proprietary trading firm
- Demonstrated PnL ownership, ideally including:
- $20M+ book responsibility
- 20%+ annualised returns (or equivalent contribution)
- A background in systematic alpha generation (statarb, predictive modelling, mediumfrequency signals, scalable models)
- Proven track record of deploying signals with realised PnL impact
- Strong capability in extracting, structuring, and modelling onchain or highfrequency market data
- Proficiency in productionrelevant research languages (e.g., Python, Go)
- Comfortable operating in a lean, highownership PM environment with autonomy and direct accountability
Strong Preference
- Active crypto trading experience with real capital deployment, OR
- Experience in FX, commodities, or emerging markets, where trading skillsets translate naturally into crypto's liquidity and volatility structure
- Multiyear stability on the same desk with a demonstrable, repeatable alpha process
Candidates from strong buyside platforms not listed will be considered if performance, strategy ownership, and responsibility are comparable.
Why Join Us
- Senior Portfolio Manager / Associate Portfolio Manager seat with direct influence over trading outcomes
- Opportunity to operate close to risk in a tight, highimpact systematic team
- Focus on repeatable, datadriven alpha, backed by institutionalgrade standards
- Blend of cryptonative innovation with established buyside discipline
- Remote flexibility available for the right senior candidate
Selby Jennings is a Trading Style of Phaidon International (License Number 16S8194)
