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Head of Systematic Macro Strategy Team (USA)

The macro strategy lead builds a research team and a systematic macro trading capability. Initial work centres on datasets, signals and platform changes that extend Trexquant’s existing investment process.

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.

Establish macro research priorities and recruit or mentor researchers
Develop diversified signals and validate their production behaviour
Build macro-data pipelines for simulations and trading
Coordinate execution and macro exposure limits with other teams

What they ask for

Required

Five or more years in systematic macro trading research
Research-team leadership
Python
Quantitative analysis
Strategy-development experience

Education: Bachelor, master or doctoral qualification in maths, statistics, computing or a related STEM subject.
Experience: 5+ years researching and trading systematic macro strategies, with research-team management.
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: fx, multi-asset

How to prepare

Present a macro strategy with documented data release timing
Explain diversification and risk allocation across macro signals
Show how a research prototype becomes a monitored trading process

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