Portfolio Manager / Electronic Trader

Portfolio Manager / Electronic Trader - Discretionary and Event Driven $150,000 - $400,000 + Equity + Flexible PTO Manhattan, NYC Are you an experienced event-driven or special-situations trader who understands how markets move around catalysts, and want to help shape how machines learn to think like human investors? This is a rare opportunity to join a well-backed, highly profitable startup that combines LLMs and quantitative modeling to systematize discretionary trading. The team is building models that merge human intuition with machine intelligence-turning the playbooks of top analysts and PMs into scalable trading systems. You'll serve as the domain expert for the ML team, translating discretionary and event-driven trading logic into modellable systems. There's no P&L or live order management-instead, you'll focus on breaking down complex decision-making processes, guiding model design, and validating outputs against real-world trading behavior. The culture is analytical, ambitious, and deeply technical. Expect high ownership, direct collaboration with founders, and meaningful equity upside. The Role Partner with the ML and research teams to codify discretionary and event-driven trading logic into systematic models. Break down complex strategies-merger arb, special sits, catalysts-into structured hypotheses, features, and data signals. Validate model behavior and align outputs with real-world trading intuition. Define evaluation frameworks and risk logic based on human decision-making. The Person 3+ years as a Portfolio Manager, or Senior Analyst in event-driven, special situations, merger arb, or catalyst equities. Deep understanding of discretionary workflows, from information gathering to sizing and execution. Excited by the challenge of turning human expertise into scalable intelligence. Willing to work in-person from Manhattan

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