Director of Trading Operations

The Role 

As Director of Trading Operations, you'll own Farther's entire trading program – setting the vision, architecture, and operating standards for how portfolios are implemented, rebalanced, and executed across our platform. This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of trading, technology, and operations, with direct influence on platform strategy and client outcomes.

You'll play a pivotal role as we launch our broker-dealer, ensuring trading infrastructure, risk controls, and compliance practices scale appropriately with our rapid growth.

Your Impact 

• Own the end-to-end trading function, including strategy, execution, rebalancing methodology, risk management, and operational oversight


• Establish and govern the firm's rebalancing and trading architecture, ensuring accuracy, resilience, and scalability across custodians, portfolio systems, and internal tools


• Set standards for data integrity, model governance, exception management, and post-trade validation


• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex trading issues, systemic risks, and vendor relationships


• Partner with Engineering and Product to define the trading and rebalancing roadmap, including automation, integrations, and build-vs-buy decisions


• Act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on trading-related decisions impacting scale, cost, and client experience


• Collaborate with Compliance to ensure trading practices, systems, and controls align with both RIA and broker-dealer requirements


• Define capacity models, performance metrics, and control frameworks to support sustained growth and regulatory rigor


• Build and lead a high-performing trading organization, with clear ownership, accountability, and development pathways


• Drive broker-dealer readiness initiatives across trading supervision, regulatory controls, and compliance frameworks

The Ideal Match 

• Extensive experience leading trading or portfolio implementation functions within an RIA, broker-dealer, or technology-enabled wealth platform


• Demonstrated ownership of multi-custodian trading programs and rebalancing technology in a high-growth environment


• Strong command of portfolio construction, rebalancing methodologies, and trading risk controls


• Proven ability to operate at the intersection of technology, data, and financial operations


• Experience operating within a dual-registered or broker-dealer environment, with a strong understanding of trading supervision, controls, and regulatory obligations


• Executive presence, sound judgment, and comfort making decisions with material firm-level impact


• Required to hold appropriate FINRA registrations to support broker-dealer trading activities, including Series 7, Series 66, and Series 9/10 or 24

Bonus Points 

• Fintech experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams on trading systems and automation


• Technical aptitude for articulating requirements, evaluating vendors, and making build-vs-buy decisions


• Track record scaling trading operations through periods of rapid AUM and advisor growth


• Familiarity with portfolio management systems, order management systems, and rebalancing platforms


• Experience managing relationships with custodians, trading vendors, and technology partners

Why Join Us

• Competitive comp package that rewards impact


• Work alongside some of the brightest minds in fintech


• Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-scaling startup


• Chart your own growth path as we expand


• Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options


• Unlimited PTO

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