Proprietary Trader / Portfolio Manager
talismanSavannah (GA)
Proprietary Trader / Portfolio Manager
Posted 11 days ago
talismanSavannah (GA)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Portfolio Manager — Proprietary Trading We're partnering with an established proprietary trading firm on a search for a Portfolio Manager to run risk on their own capital. This is a risk-taking seat with full autonomy over your book. This is not portfolio management in the asset management sense, and it is not execution. You need attributable P&L in dollars from a book you ran yourself, not benchmark-relative returns.
Responsibilities:
- Run your own book and your own risk with full discretion over strategy and sizing
- Take directional and relative value positions across your chosen products
- Manage risk in real time, including sizing, hedging and adjusting exposure through changing conditions
- Develop and scale your own strategies without a fixed house model
Requirements:
- 4+ years of profitable P&L in dollars
- Experience running your own risk rather than executing for others
- Depth in one or more of: equity options and volatility, capital structure arbitrage, listed derivatives, ETFs and index arbitrage, FX, macro or EM FX. Other products considered where the track record is strong
- Comfort with data and execution tooling
- Track record of performing in a high pressure, results driven environment
- What's on offer
New York or Chicago. Competitive base plus a meaningful profit split on what you generate. Flat structure, short decision chain, no client business and no franchise flow.
Before you apply
Applying takes about a minute. These four things decide how fast it moves after that.
Your profile is current
It's what we read first. Occupations, seniority and locations matter more than a long history.
Two examples you can talk through
Not a portfolio — just two pieces of work where you can explain the decisions and what you'd change.
A number in mind
What you're on now and what would make you move. We negotiate better when we know both.
Your notice period
Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.
Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.