We are a leading proprietary quantitative trading firm with a dominant presence in digital assets. Having established a world-class infrastructure for HFT and systematic arbitrage, we are now embarking on a multi-year expansion into traditional global electronic markets.

We are seeking a Chief Investment Officer (Systematic Trading) to architect and execute our expansion into traditional global markets from the ground up. You will own our market-entry roadmap, build an elite quantitative team, and scale an AI-first systematic trading organization that translates sophisticated algorithmic strategies into institutional-grade global market revenue.

What You Will Do

• Market Entry & Strategic Roadmap: Evaluate and prioritize entry into traditional markets and instruments. Develop a sequencing plan based on market microstructure, liquidity, and electronic tradability.
• Organizational Architecture: Drive the hiring of high calibre Alpha Researchers, Quant Traders, and Quant Developers, and promote a high-performance culture that balances aggressive growth with institutional discipline.
• Investment & Operating Plan (ROI): Define and manage the required investment across market data, compute requirements, and connectivity. Track actual spend against delivered research and trading output to ensure disciplined resource scaling.
• Capital Allocation & Prioritization: Create a framework for capital deployment across teams, strategies, and markets. Work with leadership to optimize risk-adjusted ROI, making high-stakes decisions on when to scale, pause, or retire strategies.
• AI-First Research Framework: Partner with CTO to ensure AI/Agents are embedded where they create real leverage—accelerating research throughput, enhancing strategy reproducibility, and automating research-to-production (R2P) workflows.
• Operating Cadence: Implement the discipline of regular post-trade analysis, research reviews, and promotion gates to ensure the business operates as a scalable "trading system" rather than a collection of isolated projects.

Who You Are

• 8+ Years of Systematic Trading Experience: Proven track record at a top-tier prop trading firm or market maker, and mastery of market microstructure.
• Demonstrated ability to build things from scratch, convert a strategic vision into a hiring plan and design operational frameworks.
• Strategic & Commercial Judgment: Strong intuition on when and where to deploy time and capital, and ability to define our market-entry roadmap, with an immediate focus on cross-border access to Greater China electronic markets, and further expanding into other global venues that align with the firm's existing strengths.
• Asset Mastery: Deep expertise in Futures and Equities microstructure and electronic execution across multiple global venues.
• Technical Depth: Strong understanding of the full trading lifecycle: data normalization, simulation engines, execution algorithms, and risk management.
• Ownership Mindset: A hands-on leader who thrives in high-growth environments where details are not predefined and clarity must be created.
• Practical AI Awareness: A vision for how LLMs and agents reshape systematic research workflows, distinguishing between superficial tooling and true research leverage.
• Cross-Border & Structural Awareness: Deep understanding of the regulatory, structural, and capital mobility frictions of traditional markets relative to digital assets, paired with the patience and strategic acumen to build around these constraints.
• Fluency in both English & Mandarin Chinese