Job description
This is a remote position.
We are looking for a Lead of Trading Operations to build, lead, and evolve our global Trading Operations function. This role sits at the intersection of trading, technology, and risk management, and is mission-critical for ensuring resilient and scalable execution processes across markets and time zones.
You’ll lead a team that owns operational integrity end-to-end: from pre-market checks to intraday monitoring and post-trade reconciliations, managing tooling and SLAs, and collaborating with trading, dev, quant, and compliance teams.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Ownership
Design and continuously refine pre-/post-session checklists, intraday monitoring protocols, and post-trade processes
Build and enforce intrasession controls and real-time invariants across trading systems
Develop and execute escalation playbooks for operational incidents
Performance & Capacity Management
Monitor capacity trends across venues, instruments, and internal systems
Define KPIs and maintain SLAs (latency, fill rates, reconciliation windows)
Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks
Anomaly Detection & Incident Response
Oversee systems and workflows for anomaly detection (latency spikes, data mismatches, P&L gaps)
Lead structured post-mortems, track root causes and remediation
Continuous Improvement
Drive automation across key workflows
Evolve internal dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerting infrastructure
Build a culture of proactivity and robustness over reactivity
Team Leadership
Build and lead a globally distributed ops team
Define clear growth paths and mentor junior team members
Balance tactical execution with strategic planning
Cross-functional Collaboration
Align workflows with trading strategies and market structure
Partner with engineering for deployment/rollback reliability
Work with quant teams to understand model behavior and failure modes
Ensure audit-readiness and compliance with relevant regulations
Requirements
Experience
7+ years in trading operations, execution support, or trading infrastructure roles at a prop shop, hedge fund, or electronic market-maker
Proven track record managing trading operations across multiple asset classes (equities, futures, FX, options)
Experience building and scaling ops processes in high-uptime, low-latency environments
Technical & Functional Skills
Deep understanding of electronic execution flows: order lifecycle, market connectivity, clearing & settlement
Familiarity with FIX, proprietary APIs, drop copies, and post-trade reconciliation tooling
Strong grasp of infrastructure monitoring concepts (latency tracking, failover, system health)
Ability to define and implement intrasession checks, automated alerting, and risk controls
Comfortable working with dashboards (Grafana, Kibana, etc.) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) is a plus
Leadership & Communication
Experience leading globally distributed teams and managing through follow-the-sun workflows
Clear communicator — able to synthesize incidents and drive postmortems with traders, engineers, and executives
Operational mindset with a bias for process design, reliability, and ownership under pressure
Mindset
Hands-on, low-ego operator with a high bar for quality
Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environments with limited structure
Proactive, curious, and deeply invested in building scalable systems that “just work”
Benefits
Highly competitive base salary, benchmarked against leading trading firms
Remote-first policy with optional relocation support for Dubai HQ
Flexible time off, including market holidays coverage structure
Home office stipend and equipment coverage
Regular offsites and team gatherings in global locations
Flat structure with direct access to trading, tech, and leadership
Originally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.