Project Manager
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You oversee multiple projects, define scope and deliverables, identify risks, streamline workflows, coordinate meetings, communicate status to executives and stakeholders, establish OKRs, enforce project procedures, and maintain relationships across Trading, Operations, and Engineering.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional project or program management experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
- Familiarity with Jira
- Familiarity with Agile development
- Experience establishing and tracking OKRs
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to adapt to changing business requirements and manage conflicting priorities
- Experience creating and refining processes
Responsibilities
- Determine project scope, goals, timelines, resourcing needs, and deliverables
- Identify potential risks and challenges
- Streamline workflows to improve team efficiency
- Coordinate and schedule project-level meetings and activities
- Automate and streamline existing processes and future initiatives
- Communicate and present project and program status
- Facilitate strategic goal-setting initiatives using OKRs
- Develop and enforce project procedures and rules
- Establish and maintain relationships with Trading, Operations, and Engineering teams
Benefits
- Employer-paid medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement contributions
- Paid time off
- Discretionary performance bonus