Director, Quant Strategist

The Role

We are looking to hire a Director, Quant Strategist to strengthen our US team. By combining hands-on quantitative research with team leadership, the successful candidate will be accountable for developing and monitoring strategies, ensuring model robustness, troubleshooting issues, and driving workflow enhancements.

This role will play a central part in driving our DeFi research efforts and requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage and mentor a small team whilst coordinating our team efforts across multiple stakeholders, and cross-regional teams.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Research & Implementation

• Conduct research into yield-oriented strategies across of a range of market structures and venues, with an emphasis on identifying risk-adjusted return opportunities
• Design and run backtests to evaluate strategy performance, stress-test assumptions, and establish statistical robustness
• Help deeply analyze protocols to understand mechanics, risks, and potential drivers of yield. Translate insights into research hypotheses and strategy ideas

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

• Act as a first line of response for alerts, coordinating with global colleagues to escalate and resolve issues quickly
• Translate lessons learned from monitoring into research and operational playbook improvements

Team Leadership

• Manage and mentor a team of quants/analysts: run sprints, allocate tasks, and oversee objectives and results
• Conduct code and strategy reviews, enforce testing standards, and support professional development
• Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and delivery focus

Risk & Stakeholder Interaction

• Present weekly PnL, risk metrics, and performance attribution to senior management
• Ensure transparent communication and reporting to internal stakeholders

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

Technical Expertise

• Proficiency in Python (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, etc.) and SQL with the ability to write production-quality, maintainable code
• Strong grounding in portfolio mathematics, risk modelling and statistical methods
• Experience building and maintaining research infrastructure, including data pipelines, backtesting frameworks, and related tools

Communication & Engagement

• Able to distill complex models into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate style and effective at working across teams and time zones, fostering strong engagement with colleagues

Analytical & Research Skills

• Skilled at working with large, complex, and imperfect datasets, extracting signal from noise, and applying methods ranging from classical statistics to machine learning where appropriate

Professional Experience

• Typically, 10+ years of relevant experience in digital assets, and/or quantitative research
• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related discipline)
• Previous experience managing or mentoring a small team of quants, developers, or researchers

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior exposure to DeFi yield strategies (staking, LP, lending, re-staking)
• Experience with systematic trading across traditional asset classes (equities, FX, commodities, fixed income etc.)
• Demonstrated initiative in generating ideas and improving processes
• Comfort working across time zones and collaborating with distributed teams

The Team

Fidelity Digital Assets® is dedicated to building products and services that help institutions adopt digital assets and innovate within the increasingly digital world of finance.  Fidelity Investments began researching blockchain technology and digital assets solutions in 2014, and years of research and development have provided us with the deep expertise necessary to build the future of finance.

Come join the Quantitative Strategies team within Fidelity Digital Assets® to help grow our business initiatives within DeFi and contribute to our research and product capabilities using your insights.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.   

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home.  These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career.  Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.