Job description

This is a remote position.

We are looking for a Lead of Trading Operations to build, lead, and evolve our global Trading Operations function. This role sits at the intersection of trading, technology, and risk management, and is mission-critical for ensuring resilient and scalable execution processes across markets and time zones.

You’ll lead a team that owns operational integrity end-to-end: from pre-market checks to intraday monitoring and post-trade reconciliations, managing tooling and SLAs, and collaborating with trading, dev, quant, and compliance teams.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Ownership

Design and continuously refine pre-/post-session checklists, intraday monitoring protocols, and post-trade processes
Build and enforce intrasession controls and real-time invariants across trading systems
Develop and execute escalation playbooks for operational incidents

Performance & Capacity Management

Monitor capacity trends across venues, instruments, and internal systems
Define KPIs and maintain SLAs (latency, fill rates, reconciliation windows)
Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks

Anomaly Detection & Incident Response

Oversee systems and workflows for anomaly detection (latency spikes, data mismatches, P&L gaps)
Lead structured post-mortems, track root causes and remediation

Continuous Improvement

Drive automation across key workflows
Evolve internal dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerting infrastructure
Build a culture of proactivity and robustness over reactivity

Team Leadership

Build and lead a globally distributed ops team
Define clear growth paths and mentor junior team members
Balance tactical execution with strategic planning

Cross-functional Collaboration

Align workflows with trading strategies and market structure
Partner with engineering for deployment/rollback reliability
Work with quant teams to understand model behavior and failure modes
Ensure audit-readiness and compliance with relevant regulations

Requirements

Experience

7+ years in trading operations, execution support, or trading infrastructure roles at a prop shop, hedge fund, or electronic market-maker
Proven track record managing trading operations across multiple asset classes (equities, futures, FX, options)
Experience building and scaling ops processes in high-uptime, low-latency environments

Technical & Functional Skills

Deep understanding of electronic execution flows: order lifecycle, market connectivity, clearing & settlement
Familiarity with FIX, proprietary APIs, drop copies, and post-trade reconciliation tooling
Strong grasp of infrastructure monitoring concepts (latency tracking, failover, system health)
Ability to define and implement intrasession checks, automated alerting, and risk controls
Comfortable working with dashboards (Grafana, Kibana, etc.) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) is a plus

Leadership & Communication

Experience leading globally distributed teams and managing through follow-the-sun workflows
Clear communicator — able to synthesize incidents and drive postmortems with traders, engineers, and executives
Operational mindset with a bias for process design, reliability, and ownership under pressure

Mindset

Hands-on, low-ego operator with a high bar for quality
Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environments with limited structure
Proactive, curious, and deeply invested in building scalable systems that “just work”