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The Head of Distribution will be responsible for leading all facets of Capriole’s client business. This person will be responsible for identifying, building, and maintaining the firm’s US institutional relationships.

This role is suited to an experienced, energetic and proactive team member with a track record of asset raising across the alternatives space including hedge funds. The successful candidate should have a strategic and commercial, yet highly thoughtful, approach toward these activities. Capriole has plenty of runway for growth, and this person should have the experience and ability to continue to identify prudent, relevant ways in which we can continue to grow the client offering and client base. The Head of Distribution will develop close relationships with Capriole’s clients and continue to build and expand these relationships over time.

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• The Head of Distribution will identify and engage high-quality institutional partners for the firm, taking a strategic, consultative approach to these relationships
• This person should have sophisticated knowledge of large institutional investors, knowing how and why Capriole’s investment offering can fit into these portfolios from a long-term perspective
• Consistently develop and advance the investor pipeline
• Work closely with Capriole’s leadership team to manage investor relationships
• This role requires a deep and technical understanding of a complex portfolio, and the capability and passion to communicate the firm’s portfolio, objectives and overall portfolio management activities

Your skills:

• +5 years’ experience in a client-facing role within the asset management space
• Track record of successful asset raising in private and illiquid alternatives, hedge funds, etc.
• Strong sales DNA, coupled with a highly strategic, consultative, partnership-oriented approach toward client relationships
• Highly organized, process-driven approach toward pipeline development and management
• Extensive experience working with large, sophisticated LPs
• Experience building strategic relationships and relationships with distribution channels (across broker dealers, RIA’s, and platforms)
• Exceptional ability to communicate both the qualitative and quantitative elements of a multi-strategy portfolio, where both “storytelling” and technical depth is important
• Commercial yet thoughtful approach toward product development, coupled with deep understanding of client portfolio needs
• Demonstrated ability to lead and a deep understanding and passion for putting together and optimizing the different functions within a client-facing organization
• Strong cultural fit – high performing, committed, passionate, and thoughtful person who has a long-term orientation and an unyielding focus on collaboration
• Experience in building sales and marketing processes and procedures, including an understanding of digital marketing, lead generation, lead scoring, and KPI’s. General experience with automation and innovative sales technology

Traders monitor markets in real time, improve trading algorithms, and dig into data to create better models. We’re looking for candidates with a strong quantitative background who are comfortable thinking in terms of probabilities and expected value.

More details:

• Develop trading strategies which outperform Bitcoin
• Identify valuable and predictive data sources
• Build unique indicators and metrics to drive investment decisions and signals
• Conduct comprehensive backtesting / thesis validation
• Productionize trading strategies deployed on live capital

Your skills:

• Skilled in investment risk-reward decision making
• Track record of profitability (could be a realistic backtest, algorithmic or manual live-trading track record)
• Quantitative mindset
• Data modeling skills (experience in Python)
• Expertise in finding, integrating, optimizing and analyzing new datasets
• Creativity in coming up with new trading ideas and approaches
• Systematic approach and attention to detail
• A clear communicator, both written and verbally
• Highly valued: experience in Bitcoin, crypto markets and/or equities markets
• Highly valued: mathematical and science background
• Highly valued: experience working as a trader or doing quantitative research at a well respected fund or research firm

We are looking for reinforcement learning / AI experts to expand our autonomous RL trading system. You will develop our system, framework, algorithm selection, and manage training, validation and testing to support productionizing our trading RL system for live trading. We’re looking for strong programmers who thrive in a fast-paced environment.

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Your skills:

• Expert in Python
• Expert in Machine Learning in Python (Reinforcement Learning preferred)
• Experience in AWS
• Experience in processing data and signals, managing overfitting and training
• Systematic approach and attention to detail
• A clear communicator, both written and verbally
• Highly valued: experience in trading