Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a diversified global investment firm founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O'Malley. With over $32 billion in assets under management, BAM employs more than 2,000 people across 23 offices in the U.S. and Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The firm’s investment teams span five strategies, including Equities Long/Short, Fixed Income & Macro, Commodities, Multi-Asset Arbitrage, and Systematic. Balyasny’s mission is to deliver to its investors absolute, uncorrelated returns in all market environments.
Role Overview
The Product Management team works across business and technology to deliver the next generation of tools and platforms. Our team is responsible for the full product lifecycle, from sourcing ideas and user research through solution design, requirements definition, delivery, and adoption.
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the vision, roadmap, and execution for a buildout of a full stack of Macro related trading, modelling, Risk/PNL and life cycling applications – an internal trade capture, risk/PNL, life cycle, and error workflow capability. This role will be responsible for defining and delivering a full trading lifecycle that supports the firm’s investment and operational workflows across Fixed income and Macro asset classes and business lines.
The ideal candidate has experience in product management with domain expertise in FX and Rates asset life cycling, Investment books of record, real time risk, and intraday/daily/monthly P&L processes. They are able to work collaboratively, analyse complex workflows, and deliver product solutions for solving complex financial and operational problems with technology.
Responsibilities
The Senior Product Manager will, among other things:
- Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for BAM’s Fixed income and Macro end to end trading lifecycle
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to identify current-state gaps, future-state opportunities, and strategic priorities across trading, operations, books and records, accounting, and intraday/daily P&L workflows
- Translate complex business processes into clear product requirements, user stories, process flows, and functional specifications
- Build and prioritize a roadmap balancing large strategic platform initiatives with tactical enhancements and operational risk reduction
- Own program delivery through target operating model design, metrics, UAT, rollout, change management, training, and post-release support
Qualifications & Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product management role at a hedge fund, asset manager, investment bank, or financial technology environment, including 3+ years of those in Fixed income and Macro products, such as systems for cashflows management, asset servicing, P&L concepts, workflows, controls, and stakeholder dependencies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail and control-minded thinking
- Experience managing complex cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
Preferred Experience & Skills
- Experience building an in-house asset servicing/lifecycling, books-and-records, and/or P&L platforms
- Knowledge of multi-asset class hedge fund products – including but not limited to FX, Rates, and other Fixed income and Macro products
- Familiarity with analytical or technical tools such as SQL, Python, or data modeling concepts
- Experience in a hedge fund or multi-strategy investment environment with complex legal entity, fund, and strategy structures