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Senior Project Manager - Macro, Risk & Data


Balyasny Asset Management LP
LondonLocation
London
19 days ago
Posted date
19 days ago
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Full-timeEmployment type
Full-time
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, escalate 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 the 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, backtesting 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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JOB SUMMARY
Senior Project Manager - Macro, Risk & Data
Balyasny Asset Management LP
London
19 days ago
N/A
Full-time

Senior Project Manager - Macro, Risk & Data