Associate Director, Portfolio Management

About 21Shares

21Shares makes investing in digital assets as easy as buying shares using your conventional broker or bank. Investors can purchase our crypto ETPs easily, safely and securely in a regulated framework on the SIX Swiss Exchange in USD, Euros and GBP, on BX Swiss in CHF, on Boerse Stuttgart in Euros, on DB Xetra as well as Wiener Boerse ( Vienna Exchange) in Euros. We offer the most expansive suite of crypto ETPs available on regulated European exchanges.

Founded in 2018, 21Shares is led by a team of talented entrepreneurs and experienced professionals from the asset management and banking industry. Headquartered in Zurich, the company has launched several exchange-traded products such as NEAR and ONDO in the last twelve months.

Job Title: Associate Director, Portfolio Manager

Worksite Location: 158 W 27th Street, 4 th Floor, New York, NY 10001

Job Description 

1. Assisting portfolio managers in the day-to-day management of index-based portfolios and
   rebalancing of the company's product suites, developing and reviewing fund performance
   reports and strategy presentations.
2. Managing portfolio reconciliation while collaborating with Finance, Operations and Trading
   teams on ways to improve data flow and efficiency.
3. Building mathematical algorithms to manage long/short digital asset quantitative trading
   strategies, and analyzing portfolio positioning, attribution, performance drivers and risk
   exposures using complex financial models.
4. Developing dashboards, live PnL tracking systems, and other analytical tools that aid the due
   diligence and portfolio management, and portfolio construction processes using Excel and
   coding languages including Python.
5. Supporting investment team on investment strategies research, building the investment thesis,
   and designing the portfolio management workflow.
6. Monitoring portfolio risk, maintaining appropriate market and security level hedges, and
   ensuring portfolio characteristics are synchronized with key tenets of investment strategy and
   algorithms.
7. Developing quantitative models to analyze large financial datasets and generate key insights
   into the portfolio company’s business operation and investment performance using SQL,
   Python, and Tradingview using the PineScript coding language.
8. Developing Quantitative Trading products using mySQL and Snowflake and managing
   investment products including implementing periodic rebalances.
9. Building and maintaining automated programmatic systems and executing trades both
   programmatically and manually on centralized and decentralized exchanges.
10. Extracting portfolio business data from relevant data sources, such as internal systems and
    third-party data vendors through API endpoints, including Kraken, Kucoin, Coinbase, and
    Fireblocks.
11. Building quantitative asset allocation models to rebalance digital asset indices and internal index models to evaluate new indexes, enhance existing indexes, and create quantitative investment strategies.
12. Building and maintaining a financial tools database for pricing, economic, and fundamental data, and managing and using relational databases to efficiently handle and process substantial amounts of financial data.

Minimum Requirements 

Master’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Operations Research or related field plus one (1) year of
experience in the job offered or related. 

Special Skill Requirements: 

a. Developing Quantitative Trading products using mySQL and Snowflake.
b. Experience with Tradingview using the PineScript coding language.
c. Building mathematical algorithms to manage long/short digital asset quantitative trading strategies using Kraken, Kucoin, Coinbase, and Fireblocks.
d. Building portfolio management tools, including dashboards and live PnL tracking systems using Python and Excel.
e. Collaborating with Finance, Operations, and Trading teams.
f. Managing index-based portfolios by building quantitative asset allocation models to rebalance digital asset indices.
g. Developing quantitative models that analyze large financial datasets.
h. Executing trades programmatically and manually on centralized and decentralized exchanges.

Base Salary: $101,000 to $180,000 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F
 
To apply, send your resume to careers@21shares.com