Senior Options Portfolio Manager

Discretionary put / volatility book — confidential search

The role

Run a discretionary options book inside the proprietary strategy group of an established multi-strategy investment platform. The seat sits on a team that manages roughly $1.7B notional in put-side and volatility exposure across US equity indices and single names. You'd own a sub-book within that mandate and report into the head of the strategy group.

This is a backfill, not a build. Infrastructure, risk framework, prime brokerage, and back office are already in place. Your job is to put on trades, manage greeks, and produce P&L.

What you'll do

• Construct and manage a discretionary options book — primarily puts, put spreads, and vol structures across SPX, sector ETFs, and large-cap single names.


• Sit at the intersection of macro view and structural carry: most positions are held weeks to quarters, not days.


• Manage greeks — delta, gamma, vega, theta — actively. Hedge dynamically.


• Coordinate with the broader strategy group on overlay positioning, tail hedging, and book-level vega exposure.


• Own attribution. P&L is yours. So is the explanation when it doesn't work.

What you bring

Required

• 8–15 years managing or running an options book at a hedge fund, prop shop, vol boutique, or asset manager overlay seat.


• Discretionary (not systematic) options experience. You make the trade decision.


• Demonstrable P&L track record across at least one full vol cycle (ideally including 2018, 2020, 2022).


• Fluency with put structures, vol surface dynamics, and tail risk hedging.


• Comfort sizing positions against a live notional book in the high hundreds of millions to low billions.

Preferred

• Background at one of: a recognized vol boutique (Capstone, Parallax, Universa, Artemis, Long Tail Alpha, QVR, Ambrus, True Partner), an asset manager overlay seat (Parametric, Eaton Vance, PIMCO, Nuveen, BlackRock, GS AM), or a multi-manager pod focused on options or vol relative value.


• CFA, CMT, or equivalent quant credentials.


• Published thought leadership on volatility, tail hedging, or convexity strategies.

Not required

• PhD or hard quant background. This is a discretionary seat, not a quant seat.


• Specific geography. Headquarters is on the East Coast, but the seat is open to US-anywhere for the right operator.

Compensation

Comp is competitive with senior options PM seats at top vol-focused funds — guaranteed base, signing arrangement, and a P&L-linked bonus structure with meaningful book economics. Specifics shared under NDA after a screening conversation.

Process

This is a confidential, retained search. The hiring firm will not be named in initial outreach. Qualified candidates will receive a full company brief and meet the principal portfolio manager before any decision points.

If your background fits, reply to this thread or reach out directly. Initial conversation is 30 minutes, no commitment.

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