Senior Recruiter - Trading Industry

New York, New York, United States

I specialize in sourcing exceptional talent for hedgefunds and proprietary trading companies with a focus on the following areas:

-  Quant researchers skilled in statistical machine learning, alpha research, and portfolio construction.
-  Quant and algo traders with expertise in tactics, strategies, game theory, and post-trade analysis.
-  Front-end engineers creating apps with rich functionality for traders and researchers.
-  Back-end software engineers for core low-latency trading and research teams.
-  Linux performance engineers optimizing systems for low-latency environments.
-  Data engineers building research data pipelines.
-  Operations engineers developing distributed systems to process millions of daily orders.
-  Hardware engineers building customized chips for faster backtesting and network communication.

My goal is to connect these highly skilled individuals with the best and most rewarding job opportunities available, while providing top-notch recruitment services to my clients. Besides my proficiency in sourcing candidates, I also oversee multiple accounts and nurture relationships with crucial clients and hiring managers, a number of whom I have placed.

NJF Global Holdings Ltd

Senior Recruiter

Began career at SThree graduate training program. Responsible for sourcing Quantitative Researchers and Quantitative Developers for financial institutions and hedge funds in London and New York, such as Man AHL, Gloucester Research, Bluecrest, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Getco, Citadel, Orbis, CMC Markets, and BP.  I spent 50% of my time on business development building and managing relationships with hiring managers and and 50% of my time on sourcing candidates.

James Kennedy

James Kennedy