Associate Program Manager

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than 15 years, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. We have become a multi-billion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. 

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. You will be working with strategies that are at the forefront of machine learning and statistical trading. The strategies have been carefully designed to generate non-correlated returns. Our firm and its strategies are the product of many years of meticulous research and craftsmanship, and you will lead the way in stewarding them for the future.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, unparalleled access to our experts and founders, and more.

As an Associate Program Manager, you will partner with talented and accomplished managers and executives to help grow and scale our technical departments. As a generalist, your role may range from project management to business intelligence to process development, and you enjoy switching between these modes to fill any gaps that arise. You'll work closely on a daily basis with executives in our Engineering and Research departments, helping them reach strategic initiatives and foster a culture of excellence. This role is a means to make a difference: you will play an indispensable role in ensuring the effectiveness of our technical organization and its ability to deliver against an ambitious roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Support Engineering department executives and team leads in the planning process, including setting and reaching goals, and providing visibility and transparency into ongoing progress
• Establish a reliable and visible cadence for project review and prioritization, making improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness organization-wide.
• Support development of departmental governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making 
• Implement communications standards across projects including executive and key partner communications
• Manage multiple cross-functional projects, driving prioritization, planning, coordination and execution
• Determine and implement best practices, ensuring that lessons learned are incorporated into subsequent projects

Requirements

• Minimum of 1-3 years of program or project management, strategy and operations, or other related work
• Intellectually curious explorer interested in learning about a broad variety of business challenges
• Exceptional demonstrated collaboration, coordination, communication (written and verbal), and organizational skills
• Adept at identifying issues, evaluating potential solutions, and implementing strategies to overcome challenges 
• Ability to adjust to changing priorities, project requirements, and unexpected circumstances in dynamic environments
• Ability to cultivate positive relationships with various stakeholders within and without the technical departments, in order to facilitate collaboration and achieve objectives
• Organized executor capable of independently managing multiple workstreams on schedule with high attention to detail
• Demonstrated drive to leave things better than you found them
• Familiarity with team collaboration software, such as Jira and Confluence or similar
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, especially Scrum Master experience
• Experience with OKRs and strategic planning
• Business intelligence experience

The base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Vaccination Requirement

The Voleon Group has implemented a policy requiring all employees who will be entering our worksite, including new hires, to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. This policy also applies to remote employees, as such employees will be asked to visit our offices from time to time. To the extent permitted by applicable law, proof of vaccination will be required as a condition of employment. This policy is part of Voleon’s ongoing efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees and community, and to support public health efforts.