Location: Nariman Point, Mumbai

Markets: Indian Listed Derivatives – NSE, BSE & MCX

Role Type: Portfolio Management | Systematic Trading | Pod Leadership

About The Company

Northstar Quant is a fully systematic, delta-neutral investment manager focused on India’s listed futures and options markets.

We combine systematic strategies, disciplined portfolio construction, robust risk management and institutional-grade execution to build investment programs designed specifically for Indian markets.

Backed by

Crest Ventures Ltd. A publicly listed group with three decades of building businesses across financial services and investments.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Portfolio Manager to lead and own a systematic trading pod.

This is a senior, hands-on investment role with direct accountability for the pod’s strategies, capital, team, risk and P&L.;

The successful candidate will manage a live systematic derivatives portfolio, set the research agenda, develop quantitative traders and researchers, and operate within Northstar’s investment and risk framework.





Key Responsibilities

▪ Pod leadership: Build and lead a high-performing team of quantitative traders and researchers; set priorities, assign ownership, uphold research standards and mentor talent.

▪ Portfolio & P&L; ownership: Take direct responsibility for risk-adjusted returns, drawdowns, capital efficiency and portfolio stability across the pod.

▪ Portfolio construction: Allocate capital across strategies, instruments, expiries and holding periods using expected return, correlation, liquidity, capacity and cost.

▪ Strategy development: Lead research, validation and deployment of systematic futures and options strategies; distinguish durable edge from overfit or regime-specific results.

▪ Risk management: Own position sizing, exposure, concentration, liquidity, drawdown and tail-risk controls; stress test gap, volatility, correlation and market-disruption scenarios.

▪ Execution: Over

📌 Sr. Portfolio Manager – Systematic Derivatives (Mumbai)
🏢 Northstar Quant
📍 Mumbai