Head of Systematic Credit Strategy Team (USA)

Credit Investment Specialist

We are looking for an experienced credit investment specialist to develop strategies and lead our Quantitative Credit Team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of researchers in researching, implementing, and trading profitable credit based systematic strategies within Trexquant's core product. Your work will expand our existing systematic credit program and proliferate credit as a meaningful asset class in our proven quantitative processes.

Responsibilities

• Expand our existing program by further identifying data useful for building and backtesting proposed credit trading strategies, along with the pipelines to feed datasets into our research and trading platforms.
• Work with the development team to improve accuracy, robustness, and speed of our platform in simulating and trading proposed credit based strategies.
• Develop credit based strategies and partner with the execution and financing teams to optimize execution of strategies, harmonizing with existing investments and asset classes.
• Align with the risk team to establish monitoring and controls for credit specific risk exposures as well as capital allocation among our incumbent strategies.
• Lead the Quant Credit Team to continually add, enhance and monitor credit alphas for the ongoing profitability and scale of the team's strategies.
• Regularly present to senior management to collaborate and align quantitative credit research with overall trading and investment strategies.