Founding Operations Lead

numi is partnered with a fast-growing, live systematic trading firm combining machine learning, proprietary neuroscience-inspired architectures, and high-performance engineering. Backed by top-tier global VC firms, they run live production strategies across multiple venues.Currently, company operations, treasury, and financial management are handled directly by the founders. They are looking for their first dedicated operational hire to take complete ownership of these functions, systematize them, and build the operational backbone of the firm as it scales.What You’ll OwnFinance Operations: Bookkeeping, payroll, statutory filings, management accounts, and running the monthly close.Trading Ops & PnL: Build a single source of truth for firm PnL across venues, including account inventory, capital movement logs, and data plumbing alongside engineers.Treasury Controls: Design and enforce strict documented checkpoints for all capital movements between venues and accounts.Investor & Counterparty Operations: Prepare monthly investor updates, handle exchange onboarding, oversee KYC/AML processes, and manage broker/financing relationships.Company Operations: Manage office infrastructure, vendor contracts, insurance, and setup hiring pipelines for expanding teams.First 90-Day PrioritiesOwn and execute two consecutive monthly reporting closes independently.Complete a full account and capital inventory across all trading venues.Formalize and enforce the firm’s internal treasury checkpoint process.Fully decouple the finance stack (payroll, filings, bookkeeping) from founder involvement.Requirements & ExperienceDomain Expertise: Prior operations experience at a top-tier systematic or high-frequency trading (HFT) firm is mandatory. You must have direct exposure to trade reconciliation, treasury/capital controls, PnL reporting, or counterparty management.Academic Background: Excellent academic record from a top-tier university.Technical & Data Literacy: Strong numerical fluency; comfortable reading PnL statements and directly querying databases or spreadsheets.Process Builder: A track record of automating and building scalable systems rather than manually repeating tasks.Mindset: High discretion, high accountability, and comfort making decisions under ambiguity without requiring a ticket queue.Highlights & ImpactFounding Ownership: Ground-floor responsibility with direct, explicit progression toward the COO position.Proven Business: Live trading operations with real market feedback loops, not an unproven concept.High-Density Team: Direct collaboration with exceptional founders, quantitative researchers, and low-latency engineers