The Tidal Financial Group is a leading ETF investment technology platform dedicated to creating, operating, and growing ETFs. We combine expertise and innovative partnership approaches to offer comprehensive, value-generating ETF solutions. 

Our platform offers best-in-class strategic guidance, product planning, trust and fund services, legal support, operations support, marketing and research, and sales and distribution services.

This role will be onsite four days a week, with one day per week remote.

About the role

The SVP of Trading will lead the firm’s execution and portfolio management function, responsible for directing day-to-day and strategic operations across trading desks. This role serves as a mission-critical conduit between portfolio strategy, product development, and market execution. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in ETF trading, market structure, trading platforms and capital markets, and will bring a track record of optimizing execution quality, managing complex market exposures, and leading high-performing teams.

What you'll do

Trading Strategy & Portfolio Management

• Lead ETF trading operations across all asset classes including equities, fixed income, and derivatives.
  
• Oversee a team that conducts portfolio management, takes client instructions and trade execution.
  
• Oversee interactions for ETFs, including AP engagement, market maker relationships, and NAV monitoring.
  
• Develop and implement capital markets strategies that enhance product liquidity, trading efficiency, and investor experience.
  
• Monitor macroeconomic, sector, and liquidity trends to inform tactical positioning and execution strategies.

Capital Markets Expertise

• Serve as a key contact for Authorized Participants (APs), liquidity providers, exchanges, and index providers.
  
• Advise on fund design from a liquidity, trading cost, broker selection and capital markets standpoint.
  
• Drive initiatives to improve ETF spread compression, increase market depth, and enhance creation/redemption mechanics.
  
• Lead efforts to establish new market-making relationships, capital capacity and optimize routing protocols across trading venues.

Business Partnership & Departmental Oversight

• Manage, mentor, and expand a high-performing team of portfolio managers and traders.
  
• Create a data-driven performance culture supported by robust analytics, real-time risk controls, and trade oversight.
  
• Collaborate with Middle Office for daily broker reconciliation, end of day recaps, cash management and margin maintenance.
  
• Oversee technology infrastructure including OMS/EMS, order routing, and end of day procedures to ensure scalability and efficiency.
  
• Partner with risk and compliance teams to enforce regulatory policies and monitor trading-related risk exposures.
  
• Collaborate closely with product, investment strategy, operations, and distribution teams to align trading with broader firm goals.

Leadership

• Drive business objectives and ensure operational success.
  
• Make high impact decisions that balance risk and departmental strategies.
  
• Participate in cross functional teams and engage senior leadership.
  
• Thought leader that manages a team and develops talent.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in institutional trading, ETF capital markets, or portfolio management within a buy-side or sell-side environment.
• Expertise in ETF creation/redemption processes, AP relationships, basket construction, and NAV calculation.
• Strong grasp of U.S. market structure and experience trading across exchanges, dark pools, and ATS platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team and scale operations during periods of business growth.
• Proficiency using Excel and Data Bases as tools in conjunction with trading application such as Bloomberg AIM/ EMSX

We are prioritizing candidates who are located within proximity to Chicago, IL, Omaha, NE, and West Palm Beach, FL.