The posting
Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Program Manager to join our Campus Recruiting team in NYC. In this role, you'll own the planning and execution of the programs that sit at the heart of our campus strategy. This includes our internship experiences, early talent identification programs, and any new initiatives that help HRT connect with the strongest emerging STEM talent. You'll move fluidly between shaping a program's long-term strategy and getting the details right, applying what you learn from each cycle to make our programs better.
The ideal candidate is a stellar project manager who is obsessed with organization and collaboration, and understands what great early career programming looks like. If you love owning initiatives from start to finish, providing high-touch, white-glove experiences, and have a passion for building highly scalable processes, we want to meet you!
Responsibilities
- Plan all internship and and early career programs end to end, balancing meticulous day to day details with a creative and strategic vision for our overarching goals and objectives
- Project manage our early career programs, emphasizing rigorous timeline management, a thorough communication strategy, logistics tracking, effective delegation to teammates, contingency planning, and proactive problem solving
- Design our early career programs for scale by building efficient operational process and maintaining organized documentation
- Partner closely with the campus recruiting team and the wider people operations teams to gather, track and analyze feedback to continuously strengthen our programs
- Serve as a trusted point of contact for interns, program leads, and internal teams throughout the planning and execution of HRT’s early talent programs
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in program management, owning internships and/or early-career programs in tech or quantitative trading
- Strong project management skills
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to balance granular administrative details with big picture, strategic thinking
- Fluent in applicant tracking systems, event management software, and project management tools
- Experience using analytics and data to drive decisions and make things better
- Excellent collaborative mindset; able to work efficiently with internal teams to drive operational excellence
- A curious learner who asks great questions, seeks out feedback, and is always looking to understand how things work and why
The estimated base salary range for this position is 140,000 to 180,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
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