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High-Touch Execution Strategist

A role in Squarepoint's Quant Execution Analytics team, which runs the firm's high-touch (human-assisted) execution across asset classes. You bring new strategy flows into that process and review the trading costs.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Onboard new strategy flows into the high-touch pipeline
Review transaction costs and suggest improvements
Analyse market microstructure for new products
Work with dealers and trading platforms
Help enforce desk trading practices

What they ask for

Required

2-4 years in high-touch execution
Python and/or KDB
Transaction cost analysis
Analytical and communication skills
Understanding of market structure
Project management

Preferred

Git and Jupyter

Education: No degree level stated.
Experience: 2-4 years in a high-touch execution role.
Languages and tools: Python
KDB+/q
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Run a transaction cost analysis on public trade data
Learn the difference between high-touch, low-touch and algorithmic execution
Study implementation shortfall and market impact
Practise Python analysis in Jupyter

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Squarepoint Capital and doesn’t handle applications.