Director of COO Office

Director, COO Office, Discretionary Macro Fixed Income (DMFI) The Role We are seeking a proactive leader to partner with Rates FX PMs, driving business management, PM onboarding, business analytics, and cross-functional initiatives. This role combines strategic planning, operational execution, and data-driven insights to optimize performance, enhance efficiency, and support growth across the business. This person will act as the day-to-day business manager for Schonfeld’s Macro Fixed Income platform in North America.

This role reports into the COO of DMFI.

What You’Ll Do

Business Management Act as a partner to Rates FX PMs in North America, translating investment goals into resourcing, capital, and infrastructure plans. Develop and own the business plans for various strategic growth initiatives and PM builds. Continuously analyze desk P L, risk, liquidity, funding and balance-sheet usage; recommend actions to enhance returns and capital efficiency.

, cleared swap markets, NDFs, SOFR transition trades) and drive approval / launch. PM Onboarding Lifecycle Management Coordinate pre-launch testing, market data, and trading integrations for newly on-boarded PMs. Lead onboarding of new Macro/Fixed Income PM teams: capital allocation sizing, risk limits, market-data entitlements, trading-system connectivity, and broker relationships.

Serve as escalation point and “trusted advisor” to existing PMs for any trading, infrastructure or counterparty issues. Business Performance Analytics Design dashboards on KPIs and business metrics; present insights to PMs and senior management. Lead cost/benefit cases for data, analytics and technology spend; track realized savings and ROI.

Cross-Functional Leadership Lead strategic, cross functional projects across operations, treasury, compliance, and technology—owning end to end delivery and change management, and ensuring these projects are appropriately prioritized in the overall book of work. , CCP onboarding, FX TCA implementation, intraday risk enhancements) and own end-to-end delivery. Coordinate with Legal / Treasury on ISDA, CSA, give-ups and clearing mandates to support trading strategies.

Vendor Data Management Own the vendor lifecycle for trading and analytics platforms (contract negotiation, SLA governance, ongoing performance reviews). Stay abreast of emerging data/analytics vendors in macro and fixed income and evaluate fit for the platform. What you’ll bring 7-10+ years in business management / COO, product or trading-related role on the buy-side (hedge fund, asset manager) or sell-side fixed income business.

Strong preference for candidates that have already been in broad business management roles within hedge fund platforms. NY Based Deep product knowledge across rates and FX cash derivatives: government bonds, swaps, futures, options, swaptions, NDFs, forwards, cross-currency swaps. Strong grasp of pricing, valuation, = risk, funding liquidity, CCP margin and capital usage.

Fluency with trading technologies: order execution-management systems, market-data feeds. Advanced analytical toolkit—Excel / VBA a must; Python, SQL or PowerBI strongly preferred. Proven ability to negotiate commercial terms with banks, venues and data providers.

Exceptional project-management, prioritization and stakeholder-influencing skills; comfortable presenting to senior management. Highly organized, proactive and able to manage multiple deliverables in a fast-moving market environment. Impeccable integrity and discretion when handling sensitive trading and financial information.

Who We Are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners.