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The Senior Project Manager will be a central coordination point for onboarding, project delivery, issue resolution, and tooling adoption across BAM's Macro, Risk & Data areas. The Senior Project Manager will report into the Principal Project Manager supporting these areas, and shall interface daily with technology, data, and risk teams.
Responsibilities
Onboarding
- Coordinate across Business Management, Data, Technology, and Risk 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 Macro, Risk & Data; track milestones, manage dependencies, and escape risks
- Partner on strategic build‑out initiatives: new strategy integration, asset class expansion, workflow development
- Coordinate on projects touching trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and multi‑asset trade monitoring
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 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 into 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
- Familiarity with the broader investment lifecycle—signal research, portfolio construction, execution, and performance monitoring
- Working knowledge of quant trading infrastructure—research environments, back‑testing platforms, data pipelines, execution systems, risk frameworks
- Understanding of market data and alternative data—vendor management, licensing, feed onboarding, data quality
- 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
Company: Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Location: London
Job Description:
The Senior Project Manager will be a central coordination point for onboarding, project delivery, issue resolution, and tooling adoption across BAM’s Macro, Risk & Data areas. The Senior Project Manager will report into the Principal Project Manager supporting these areas, and shall interface daily with technology, data, and risk teams.
Responsibilities
Onboarding
- Coordinate across Business Management, Data, Technology, and Risk 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 Macro, Risk & Data; track milestones, manage dependencies, and escape risks
- Partner on strategic build‑out initiatives: new strategy integration, asset class expansion, workflow development
- Coordinate on projects touching trading infrastructure, execution platforms, and multi‑asset trade monitoring
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 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 into 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
- Familiarity with the broader investment lifecycle—signal research, portfolio construction, execution, and performance monitoring
- Working knowledge of quant trading infrastructure—research environments, back‑testing platforms, data pipelines, execution systems, risk frameworks
- Understanding of market data and alternative data—vendor management, licensing, feed onboarding, data quality
- 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
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Posted: May 15th, 2026