Estee Advisors - Manager/Director - Options Trading - Strategy & Algorithm - IIT/IIM

Estee Advisors Private Limited is a Gurgaon, India, based quantitative investment Management Company. The company builds quant-based alternative investment products which are optimized for risk and return. Estee was setup in June 2008 and has two products in the market since May 2009- I-Alpha (a market neutral fund focused on producing alpha from Indian markets using arbitrage) and Market Making. Estee is registered as a broker (automated trading) and PMS provider. Estee has a fully automated trading system that is capable of analyzing real time granular market data and produce thousands of trades with very low latency.

Estee is led by Sandeep Tyagi, an experienced entrepreneur who successfully grew his last venture, Inductis, into a 300 people consulting firm focused on financial services sector in the area of risk management and analytics before merging with another company and going public in 2006. Estee has a strong set of independent board members and advisors including professionals with decades of experience in investment management, algorithmic trading, financial services, emerging markets and analytics. Estee India has a team of about 65 people from some of the best institutes in India.

Estee Advisor's strategy team is looking for talented, ambitious, self-directed candidates for quantitative trading roles. If you are eager to make an impact in a niche Quantitative and Algorithmic Automated Trading in India and other emerging markets and have a proven track record of excellence, we have a unique pioneering opportunity waiting for you! You will be part of a team of very select professionals from the best institutes (IIT/IIM/Ivy League) in creating proprietary innovative products. Based on the quantitative analysis of financial market data you will be expected to research and design innovative investment strategies like Arbitrage, long/short, statistical arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, market-making algorithms etc.

Position Title: Manager/Director - Options Trading (Strategy & Algorithm)

Work Experience: 5-8 years

Responsibilities:

- Lead a team of all IITians focused on option trading.

- Design and implement mathematical models for trading options. The person will need to understand latest research in quantitative finance related to options and come up with innovative trading ideas.

- Design, back-testing and implementation of high-frequency trading strategies on international exchanges.

- Conduct performance attribution of live portfolios.

Required Skills:

- Strong candidates should have 5-8 years of work experience and successful track record in quantitative analysis and some experience in options trading as well.

- Post-Graduate degree in statistics, finance, mathematics, engineering (Computer Science) or other quantitative or computational disciplines

- Experience in using some or all of the following languages: C++(compulsory), R, Python, MATLAB, SPSS, CART, C# .Net

- Premium Institute (IIT/IIM/Ivy League)

- Good written and oral communication skills.

- Strong experience working both independently and in a team-oriented collaborative environment.

- Entrepreneurial, self-motivated individual - high energy, high activity levels - passion for working with an innovative, small but rapidly growing company.

Desired Skills:

- Experience in HFT Option Market Making Trading for at least 2 yrs

- Experience in using Machining Learning Techniques preferable.

Compensation:

- Competitive compensation package with a fixed and variable compensation