Chief Investment Officer

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 (CIO) to architect and lead this expansion from the ground up. You will define our market-entry roadmap, hire a high-performance quantitative team, and design a scalable, AI-first systematic trading organization that bridges the gap between sophisticated research and 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: Design the team structure and drive the hiring of Alpha Researchers, Quant Traders, and Quant Engineers. Build 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 new trading desks from scratch, convert a strategic vision into a hiring plan, and design operational frameworks.    


• Strategic & Commercial Judgment: Strong intuition on where to deploy time and capital. Ability to identify the right "beachhead" markets 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 yet 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.    


• Fluency in both English & Mandarin Chinese