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Head of Quantitative Product Management based in San Francisco

Position	Head of Quantitative Product Management, Knowledge Management
Company	Global Asset Management Firm
Reports to	Global Head of Market Data
Location	San Francisco, CA

Position Summary

The Knowledge Management Product Team seeks a Manager for the Quantitative Product Manager function. The role leads a team that acts as a liaison between Research and Knowledge Management with particular emphasis on liaison with the IT Development team. The ideal candidate will have a background in financial engineering and programming languages as well as proven capabilities to manage complex requirements and to facilitate communication with a wide variety of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

The Head of Quantitative Product Management will:

• Lead Knowledge Management IT team to setup data feeds, data model and derived data.
• Design validation and transformation rules and mapping, manage exceptions and errors and the future needs for data and analytics in order to support investment strategy.
• Design and lead IT team to implement data models and data objects used in Firm’s applications and analytics.
• Interact with Research, Knowledge Management Product Managers, IT and Operations to provide knowledge and integrity of financial information to support investment strategies.
• Work directly with market data vendors to set-up and implement new data feeds or data models.

Experience & Education

• Minimum 10 years of relevant industry expertise, with 2-5 years experience working with analytics and financial models.
• Experience working with equity derivatives and equity data.
• Experience in re-engineering platforms.
• Knowledge and experience with the quantitative investment process of asset managers.
• Excellent analytic and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions.
• The ability to recruit, train, retain and develop a team is essential.
• Strong initiative and a thirst for knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Master in Financial Engineering or PhD in a mathematical discipline is highly desirable.

The Head of Quantitative Product Management position will regularly interface with Researchers, Knowledge Management IT Developers, and Knowledge Management Product Managers. This role will also interface with market data vendors in conjunction with the product managers.

Technical Skills

Requires background in programming languages, such as:

• C/C++,
• Perl,
• SQL, etc.

Knowledge of programming languages will facilitate interactions with the IT team, but this role will not involve any development.

Key Competencies

• Technical Knowledge – programming languages; financial & data modeling; equity domain expertise
• Ability to Execute
• Creativity
• Initiative
• Problem Solving
• Ownership & Accountability

Contact

Stephanie Baglio
Director of Recruiting
Risk Talent Associates
sbaglio@risktalent.com
212.253.2353

posted by HDShea @ 12:44 PM