COO of Investments

Company Overview

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1973. With $28 billion in assets under management (AUM), SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest charitable foundations dedicated to advancing justice, human rights, and democracy.

Distinct from other investment platforms, SFM thrives on agility, acting decisively when conviction is high and exercising patience when it’s not. With permanent capital, a select group of major clients, and an unconstrained mandate, we invest opportunistically with a long-term view in a wide range of strategies and asset classes, including public and private equity and credit, fixed income, foreign exchange, and alternative assets. Our teams operate with autonomy, while cross-team collaboration strengthens our conviction and empowers us to capitalize on market dislocations.

At SFM, we foster an ownership mindset, encouraging professionals to challenge the status quo, innovate, and take initiative. We prioritize development, enabling team members to push beyond their roles, voice bold ideas, and contribute to our long-term success. This culture of continuous growth and constructive debate fuels innovation and drives efficiencies.

Our impact is measured by both the returns we generate and the values we uphold, from environmental stewardship to social responsibility. Operating as a unified team across geographies and mandates, we remain committed to our mission, ensuring a meaningful, lasting impact.

Headquartered in New York City with offices in Greenwich, Garden City, London, and Dublin, SFM employs 200 professionals.

Job Overview  

The COO of Investments plays a central role in shaping and delivering the firm’s investment platform, partnering closely with the CIO to ensure the organization is equipped with the capabilities required to drive long-term performance. The role serves as the primary interface between investment teams and central functions, driving clarity, prioritization, and execution.  

Reporting to the CEO / CIO and acting as a partner to the firm COO and investment leadership team, this role ensures that time and resources are allocated to initiatives that enhance decision-making, execution efficiency, scalability and long-term performance. 

Positioned at the intersection of investing, data, risk, and technology, the COO of Investments aligns execution with strategy; ensuring that portfolio managers and traders are supported by robust infrastructure, high-quality data and clear operating frameworks.  

The role requires strong judgement, strategic perspective, and execution discipline. The successful candidate will be able to synthesize diverse stakeholder objectives, rigorously evaluate trade-offs (including second-order impacts), challenge assumptions and drive implementation.  

Major Responsibilities  

Strategic Partner to the CIO  

• Partner with the CIO and CTO to define and evolve the firm’s investment platform strategy, including decision support, risk, trading and financing systems. 
• Translate investment team needs into clearly defined, prioritized initiatives with explicit resource requirements, expected benefits, strategic alignment, and defined delivery timelines, ensuring accountability for timely, high-quality execution.  
• Partner with investment and technology teams to maximize the impact of AI across the investment process.  
• Work with CIO, Head of Equities, Head of Credit and Chief Risk Officer on the development of enhanced performance analytics across strategies (e.g., return quality, balance sheet efficiency, scalability, cost). 
• Identify structural inefficiencies and drive improvements to the firm’s economics through investment platform enhancements, considering both direct costs and second-order effects (e.g. efficiency, scalability).  
• Contribute to long-term planning, including capacity management, strategy evolution, and expansion into new areas of investment. 

Investment Execution & Leadership  

• Act as a critical thought partner to investment teams, challenging assumptions, facilitating productive debate, and driving alignment and execution across functions. Lead onboarding of new portfolio managers and teams, ensuring full operational readiness across systems, data, risk, and operations prior to capital deployment.  
• Oversee new product and strategy launches, including mandates, guidelines, infrastructure, and controls. 
• Drive alignment across teams on key inputs such as data definitions, exposures, and risk assumptions where consistency is critical. 

Operational Oversight  

• Ensure the investment platform operates as an integrated system across front, middle, and back office functions. 
• Partner with the Head of Data to maintain high standards of data integrity, consistency, and accessibility.  
• Maintain robust infrastructure supporting trading, risk, analytics, and reporting, with a focus on reliability and scalability. 
• Define and monitor key operating metrics (efficiency, cost, service quality). 
• Partner with Technology, Risk, Data, and Operations to continuously improve workflows, with a focus on automation and eliminating manual processes. 
• Ensure governance controls are appropriately calibrated to manage risk without unduly compromising speed or flexibility.   

Success in this role is defined by:  

• Improved investment outcomes driven by top-tier, scalable, reliable decision support and risk tools.  
• High adoption and effective utilization of investment tools across portfolio managers and traders. 
• A forward-looking vision for the evolution of the investment platform, grounded in practical execution. 
• Clear, effective communication and alignment between investment and central functions (technology, data, risk, and operations). 
• Rapid and reliable delivery of platform enhancements and capabilities. 
• Thoughtful buy vs. build decisions that optimize flexibility, cost, and speed. 
• Relentless focus on reducing uncompensated complexity across the investment platform.  
• Strong relationships with peers and external counterparties enabling rapid identification and adoption of best practices. 

What We Value    

• Significant experience within capital markets (buy or sell-side) including direct engagement with portfolio managers and / or traders. 
• Strong understanding of investment processes, research workflows and risk management across asset classes and investment strategies. 
• Proven track record of leading teams and driving platform transformation. 
• Credibility and judgment to influence senior stakeholders and constructively challenge established approaches. 
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex investment, technical, and operational concepts into clear, actionable direction across diverse stakeholders. 
• Ability to think in systems, understanding how decisions across technology, data, risk, and workflows interact to impact investment outcomes. 
• Execution-oriented, with ability to translate strategy into execution. 
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality. 
• Intellectual curiosity and a consistent track record of learning and growth. 

We anticipate the base salary of this role to be $300,000. In addition to a base salary, the successful candidate will also be eligible to receive a discretionary year-end bonus.  

In all respects, candidates need to reflect the following SFM core values:

Smart risk-taking   //   Owner’s Mindset   //   Teamwork   //   Humility   //   Integrity