Senior Project Manager - Macro, Risk & Data
Balyasny Asset Management LP
19 days ago
Posted date19 days ago
N/A
Minimum levelN/A
General ManagementJob category
General ManagementThe 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
Project Management
Stakeholder Communication
Tooling & Process
Requirements
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
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