ETF Portfolio Manager

ETF Portfolio Manager

It's rare that a new asset class is born. Nevertheless, we're witnessing exactly that with the rise of crypto. Over just the last few years, since Bitwise was founded, crypto has evolved from an embryonic $50B market to a growing $3T+ juggernaut. At Bitwise, we believe that crypto has reached a turning point, and is headed north of $10T over the next few years.

This is an exciting moment for Bitwise as a firm. For eight years, we have established a track record of excellence managing a broad suite of index and active solutions across ETFs, separately managed accounts, private funds, institutional staking, and hedge fund strategies. This year, we crossed $15B in client assets and are growing quickly. Thousands of financial advisors, family offices, and institutional investors partner with Bitwise to understand and access the opportunities in crypto. We are known for providing unparalleled client support through expert research and commentary, a nationwide client team of crypto specialists, and deep access to the crypto ecosystem.

Currently, Bitwise is a close-knit team of 100+ global professionals. Think of us as a mix of an asset manager and a tech start-up. We're backed by some of the most accomplished investors in venture capital and veterans of the financial services world. We love working together, we love what we do, and we're excited about what's ahead.

As a member of the ETF and Index Portfolio Management team you will professionally manage Bitwise's suite of index products including ETFs, private funds, and SMAs. In this daily production environment, you will ensure tight portfolio performance to benchmarks while keeping top of mind all procedures and controls to minimize operational risk and trading errors. You will provide timely trade execution for subscriptions / redemptions and create / redeems, all index rebalances and model changes, in accordance with the investment objectives of the portfolios. You will analyze performance, produce performance attribution and handle basket files, and NAV questions. You will work with our third party service providers to ensure the integrity of our daily NAVs and basket files. You will be the primary point of contact for all index data related questions, own follow up and issue resolution with index providers. You will manage relationships to support efficiencies in daily product operations.

This role will be based in our San Francisco office and will have a hybrid work schedule. This includes working some days in our San Francisco office and some remotely. This role could possibly be based in our New York office, but would work West Coast hours, approximately 12 : 00pm to 9 : 00pm ET and would have a hybrid work schedule. This would include working some days in our New York office and some remotely.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Manage index portfolios in multiple wrappers (ETFs, private funds, SMAs) within assigned parameters and tolerance levels.
• Manage assigned portfolios to meet performance standards consistent with fund investment objectives while adhering to fund specific and regulatory requirements.
• Proactively manage trading strategies, corporate action elections, tax mitigation strategies and / or other ad-hoc opportunities.
• Stay current on regulatory requirements and ensure portfolios remain compliant.
• Understand asset valuations in portfolios utilizing market information.
• Recognize portfolio risk situations and escalate appropriately.
• Attribute fund performance, understand and minimize sources of portfolio risk relative to benchmarks.
• Ensure prudent risk management with carefully developed investment and operational processes.
• Follow procedures and processes, monitor portfolio activity and performance.
• Trade multiple asset classes including derivatives, equities, futures, options, T-bills, crypto currencies, and other digital assets.
• Utilize multi-asset management experience to accurately monitor and trade portfolios across a variety of asset classes with best practice approach to trade execution.
• Execute trades in multiple workflows, minimize transaction impact and cost.
• Run a full trading lifecycle from PM order to trade execution to settlement.
• Support new product launches by drafting prospectuses, related documentation and marketing materials.
• Accurately interpret and implement relevant index methodology, including rebalance changes.
• Proactively contribute to PM & trading systems / investment process enhancements.
• Ability to build relationships and work with internal and external colleagues to get new initiatives executed.
• Liaise with other internal teams including sales and trading, investor relations, fund administration, research and legal.
• Effectively communicate, both orally and in written form, with a diverse group of junior and senior parties, both internal and external.
• Mentor other portfolio managers and assist in their growth and contribution to the team.

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