Director, Systematic Fixed Income PM - Whippany, United States

MetLife Investment Management (MIM) offers the chance to be part of a team driving impact in global markets. With $742 billion in assets under management, as of 12/31/25, we apply expertise in Fixed Income, Equities, Private Credit, and Real Estate to create thoughtful, risk-managed investment solutions for institutional clients. Recognized as a 2025 Best Place to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments, MIM is where experience meets impact. You’ll turn ideas into action, collaborate with industry professionals, and help build a legacy spanning over 150 years in a dynamic environment where your work truly matters.

The Director, Portfolio Manager – Systematic Fixed Income sits within the IAM (Insurance Asset Management) team. The current portfolio is a $600~700 million AUM multi-asset fixed income strategy focused on the Taiwan market, serving both institutional and retail clients. New strategies and products will expand into additional markets, including pension, endowment, insurance, and reinsurance.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and manage quantitative strategies
  • Generate strategies and develop products that meet market demands and provide solutions to client needs. Work with sales and marketing to promote products
  • Manage strategies and perform portfolio operations. Generate and execute trades. Monitor positions, performance, and risks. Track and address portfolio issues with traders, fundamental analysts, brokers, middle office, custodians, vendors, and clients
  • Interact with clients. Communicate investment process and philosophy. Address client questions and concerns. Write commentaries and client reports
• Engage in full life cycle of fixed income research
  • Generate ideas, conduct research, and build models to forecast expected returns and risks for Fixed Income asset classes, including but not limited to: currencies, rates (treasury, bond futures, interest rate swap), corporate credit (investment grade & high yield), emerging market debt (sovereign and corporates, hard-currency and local-currency), securitized, agency debt, and inflation-linked bonds
  • Build, maintain, and continuously improve data infrastructures. Design databases. Collect and process data from vendors and public data sources.
  • Create and maintain software and codes. Implement tools for data processing, factor research, model estimation, portfolio construction, portfolio management operations, and reporting. Manage software development under a CI/CD framework with code reviews, issue tracking, and documentation components

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In this role, you will:

• Develop and manage quantitative strategies
  • Generate strategies and develop products that meet market demands and provide solutions to client needs. Work with sales and marketing to promote products
  • Manage strategies and perform portfolio operations. Generate and execute trades. Monitor positions, performance, and risks. Track and address portfolio issues with traders, fundamental analysts, brokers, middle office, custodians, vendors, and clients
  • Interact with clients. Communicate investment process and philosophy. Address client questions and concerns. Write commentaries and client reports
• Engage in full life cycle of fixed income research
  • Generate ideas, conduct research, and build models to forecast expected returns and risks for Fixed Income asset classes, including but not limited to: currencies, rates (treasury, bond futures, interest rate swap), corporate credit (investment grade & high yield), emerging market debt (sovereign and corporates, hard-currency and local-currency), securitized, agency debt, and inflation-linked bonds
  • Build, maintain, and continuously improve data infrastructures. Design databases. Collect and process data from vendors and public data sources.
  • Create and maintain software and codes. Implement tools for data processing, factor research, model estimation, portfolio construction, portfolio management operations, and reporting. Manage software development under a CI/CD framework with code reviews, issue tracking, and documentation components

Basic Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of working experience
• A master’s or PhD degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, economics, finance, or other technical and quantitative disciplines from a top university with a strong academic record
• Proficiency with math, econometrics, and time series analysis
• Knowledge and experience in optimizations, in particular convex optimization
• Advanced programming skills, coding experience in Python, R, and SQL
• Knowledge of fixed income asset classes, instruments, valuation methods, main driver of returns and risks
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and writing
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to learn new skills quickly 
• Ability to use approved AI tools to support routine tasks such as drafting summarizing, and organizing information, and improving day-to-day efficiency. 
• Working knowledge of AI capabilities with the ability to evaluate and validate outputs with guidance. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in quantitative disciplines
• Math, physics, or computer science award winners
• Experience in fixed income factor investing
• Familiarity with fixed income trading process and operations
• Client-facing experience
• Working knowledge of Bloomberg tools (PORT, AIMS), DataStream, FactSet OnDemand
• Programming skills in java/javascript, C/C++/C#, html/xml
• Familiarity with big data, machine learning, AI

The expected salary range for this position is$205,000 - $225,000

This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms. 

Benefits We Offer About MetLife MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).