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# Global Real Estate Lead at Hudson River Trading

- **Company:** Hudson River Trading
- **Location:** New York NY, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/careers/job/?gh_jid=8075221

## Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Global Real Estate Lead to join our Employee Experience team in NYC and lead our Global Real Estate team. Our Real Estate team is responsible for portfolio strategy, research, leasing, design, and fit-out across our global office spaces. The team takes a thoughtful, proactive approach to HRT's evolving business needs while carefully considering the cultural impact of its work.

As a Global Real Estate Lead, you have a deep expertise managing commercial office projects end-to-end across a global portfolio, ideally spanning across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC regions. This role demands strong attention to detail, excellent project management and problem-solving skills, a flexible and empathetic approach to leadership, and a willingness to take on complex challenges with curiosity.

The ideal candidate brings experience in commercial real estate, leasing strategy, and construction project experience across multiple regions and jurisdictions. They operate effectively in a consensus-driven decision-making environment, lead the team with a player-coach mentality, and recognize that the outcomes of their work directly shapes our culture, community, and the employee experience.

## Responsibilities

- Inspire, mentor, and elevate a global team of real estate experts
- Foster a culture of inclusivity, performance excellence, collaboration, and strong communication across the team and business stakeholders
- Lead market research to identify short and long-term real estate opportunities across U.S., EMEA, and APAC markets that align with business objectives and local cultural norms
- Develop and execute leasing strategy across regions; negotiate leases, maximizing tenant concessions
- Forecast and update project budgets, including capital and operational expenditure
- Assess and manage a global network of brokers, architects, contractors, landlords, and other real estate partners
- Partner with internal stakeholders to define goals, socialize ideas, and drive decisions throughout the project journey
- Oversee the project management and design of office fit-outs from concept through occupancy and optimize layouts for employee productivity and experience. Direct the planning of structural work, critical MEP, IT, Security, and connectivity infrastructure, FF&E, permitting, etc. for every project
- Ensure strong record tracking, including critical lease dates, space utilization and performance; handle insurance and local regulatory compliance due diligence
- Establish and maintain consistent real estate standards and processes globally while adapting to regional market and regulatory differences
- Travel internationally as needed to lead site selection, project delivery, and stakeholder collaboration across U.S., EMEA, and APAC offices

## Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience in commercial real estate, managing a million square foot portfolio across global regions (U.S., EMEA, and APAC)
- At least 7 years of experience leading, coaching, and uniting global teams in ambiguous and consensus driven decision making environments
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills, and a history of aligning internal strategic partners
- Strong technical skills (automations, messaging platforms, project management tools)
- Proven track record managing complex fit-out projects end-to-end
- Demonstrated success negotiating commercial lease terms and managing large project budgets across multiple markets
- Deep understanding of global commercial real estate markets, ideally within the financial industry
- Proficiency in construction and design project management
- Experience working with senior stakeholders in fast-paced, high-accountability environments
- Comprehensive knowledge of MEP engineering, security, and networking systems
- Ability to operate autonomously across time zones while driving consensus-driven decisions to resolution
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package. Culture

Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.

At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.

Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.

Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.

## About Hudson River Trading

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm that builds automated trading algorithms to provide liquidity on global markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no public ticker; no external funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2002
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (current owner is Jason Carroll)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial services – algorithmic trading and market making.
- **Target customers**: Institutional market participants, exchanges, and liquidity consumers (B2B). The firm trades on over 200 markets worldwide.
- **Mission/purpose**: “We are thoughtful market leaders, committed to the health and longevity of global markets.” [hudsonrivertrading.com](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Automated Trading Algorithms**: Proprietary models developed by mathematicians, physicists, and software engineers to execute trades across equities, futures, options, and other asset classes. Emphasis on statistical analysis and high-performance infrastructure.
- **Market Making**: HRT provides two-sided liquidity on electronic exchanges, holding about 25% of capital overnight with an average holding time of roughly five minutes (distinct from stereotypical high-frequency trading firms). [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Trading)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: In Q1 2021, HRT generated approximately **$1.2 billion** from trading, amid heightened market volatility (Bloomberg report). [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Trading)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors (private, founder-owned). Member of the Principal Traders Group (Futures Industry Association). Acquired competitor Sun Trading in 2018.
- **Growth Signals**: Employs over 800 people across offices in New York, Chicago, Austin, Boulder, London, Singapore, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dublin. Continues to hire aggressively for roles in software engineering, algorithmic development, and research (130+ open roles as of mid-2026 per career page). [hudsonrivertrading.com/careers](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/careers/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Advanced technology stack**: HRT’s distributed system is on the Pareto frontier of latency and throughput, giving researchers and engineers a unique platform for fast experimentation.
- **Collaborative culture**: Unlike many prop trading firms, HRT emphasizes shared R&D and cross-team cooperation (“the best ideas are born in a shared research and development environment”).
- **Ethical stance**: Internal code of ethics that exceeds regulatory requirements; transparent market participation (<1% of trading in dark pools).
- **Diversified strategies**: Multi-asset, multi-timeframe trading reduces single-point risk and enables resilience.

## Strategic Focus
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively recruiting from top math, computer science, and physics programs, as well as experienced engineers from big tech (Wall Street Journal noted HRT’s efforts to attract talent from Silicon Valley).
- **Global expansion**: Continued office openings in Asia and Europe to access more markets and liquidity pools.
- **Infrastructure investment**: Ongoing development of low-latency, high-throughput systems to maintain a competitive edge in algorithmic trading.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: HRT describes itself as “a small tech company with a big impact” – a community of curious, collaborative problem-solvers. Core values include automation & efficiency, make it better, togetherness, and inclusivity. [hudsonrivertrading.com/life-at-hrt](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/life-at-hrt/)
- **Hybrid/remote policy**: Majority of teams adopt an even split between in-office and remote work; some roles require full-time presence. Relocation assistance is available.
- **Perks & benefits**: Company-paid medical/dental (no premiums), 401k/pension matching, generous parental leave (via Progyny), caregiver support (Vivvi), fitness centers/reimbursement, daily catered meals, coffee bar, and regular social events (company trips, happy hours, volleyball tournaments).
- **Engineering environment**: Strong emphasis on C++, Python, OS internals, CPU architecture, and networking. Engineers work on everything from high-frequency trading engines to research infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [hudsonrivertrading.com](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/) – Company overview, mission, and philosophy.
2. [hudsonrivertrading.com/careers](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/careers/) – Job types, locations, and role descriptions (Algo Developer, Software Engineer, Algo Software Engineer).
3. [hudsonrivertrading.com/life-at-hrt](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/life-at-hrt/) – Benefits, culture, diversity & inclusion, work environment.
4. [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Trading) – History, business model, trading statistics (5% of US trading in 2014, Q1 2021 revenue, acquisition of Sun Trading).

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