Athena Capital Research

Portfolio Manager
Athena Capital Research is a global quantitative investment manager with offices in New York and Hong Kong. With strengths in technology and finance, we combine discipline and creativity to achieve success in the growing field of automated trading. The firm was formed in 2003 and our Hong Kong office in 2010. The Hong Kong office is Athena’s Asia headquarters and manages the firm’s highly successful Asia-focused strategies. We are looking for exceptional individuals to join our elite team.

Job description
Our hedge fund specializes in fully automated trading. We have developed a best-in-class automated trading platform, featuring direct market access to major financial exchanges, and a complete system for developing and automating trading strategies. We will provide the technology, the capital, detailed historical data, lowest cost commissions, and highest quality executions—you will leverage these tools to build profitable trading strategies. We’ve built the body, you build the brains.
This position will be directly responsible for generating profits for the company. A core part of our culture is to share profits with people who are responsible for them. Therefore, this position is potentially very lucrative. We will provide you with the resources needed; it will be up to you to develop and drive these strategies to maximum profitability.

Key Responsibilities
• Build and maintain quantitative trading models by researching and establishing investment strategies
• Oversee daily performance and evaluate against historical data
• Assess portfolio to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, firm policies and portfolio investment strategies
• Collaborate with Trade Ops to ensure stable deployment of quantitative strategies

Requirements
• 3+ years managing and developing strategies and managing portfolio risk
• M.S. or Ph.D. degree from a top-tier school in a technical, scientific, and/or quantitative field
• 2+ years of experience with a major object oriented programming language (C++ / Java / C# preferred)
• 2+ years of experience working with Unix-based systems
• Strong desire to conquer the challenge of outperforming other financial market participants
• Self-motivated, hardworking, creative and competitive personality
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Desired Skills
• Statistical modeling, time series, machine learning, big data, or other data modeling experience
• Matlab, R, Stata, numPy, Pandas: expertise with any of these is a plus