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Senior Project Manager, Investment Technology

Balyasny Asset Management LP London, United Kingdom
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Senior Project Manager, Investment Technology

Balyasny Asset Management LP London, United Kingdom
Senior Project Manager, Investment Technology
The Senior Project Manager will be a central coordination point for onboarding, project delivery, issue resolution, and tooling adoption across BAM's Investment Technology areas with specialized focus in Credit and Macro. The Senior Project Manager will report into the Principal Project Manager supporting these areas, and shall interface daily with business, data and technology teams.

Responsibilities

Onboarding
  • Coordinate across Business Management, Data, and Technology 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; 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 Portfolio Managers and researchers
  • Facilitate translating business and research requirements into actionable technical specifications for engineering teams

Requirements
  • 8+ years project management in a hedge fund or quantitative trading firm; multi-strategy platform experience preferred
  • Familiarity with the broader investment lifecycle specifically in Credit (experience supporting Macro area is a plus) - 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, feed onboarding, data quality) and financial products (one or more of equity and interest rate derivatives, fixed income, credit, FX)
  • 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 ID  REQ8187
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