Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities.

Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization. Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level.

Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance. At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success.

Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do — combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best. At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.

This team is responsible for driving firm-wide initiatives that require planning, coordination, and technical delivery across all groups including Core Engineering, Trading, Risk Management, Compliance, Finance and Operations.

Responsibilities

Ensuring that projects are initiated, analyzed, planned and implemented so as to meet defined business objectives. , IT, Finance, Operations, Risk, and Compliance).

Requirements

from all departments. Continually improve industry and Tower knowledge to enhance this capability. Identifying tactical vs strategic solutions to problems, and highlight tradeoffs between them, so that stakeholders can make informed decisions.

Identifying recurring issues with technical debt, and guide prioritization of new projects to address them. Developing comprehensive project plans and documentation, including goals, timelines, resource allocation, budgets, and risk mitigation strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Directing cross-functional technical discussions and driving decisions involving system upgrades, digital transformation, software implementation, and emerging fintech solutions.

Facilitating coordination and communication across business units, regions and or external parties fostering strong partnerships and engagement with key stakeholders. Contributing to centralized PMO support by offering project guidance, tools, and resources and to standardize project management practices across the organization, improve planning, tracking, and reporting processes, and ensure alignment of all projects with the firm's strategic goals while managing resources and risks effectively. Determining the appropriate level of administrative overhead for each project, depending on size and complexity.

Manage projects for efficiency and execution first.

Qualifications

A computer science degree or equivalent 5+ years of relevant project management experience, either in a global financial environment or in a technology driven industry Experience in the financial industry, specifically with front office market activities Software development background, either through CS degree or prior hands-on development roles Ability to scope, manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously, each with different timelines Ability to pivot tasks q

Senior Project Manager