Senior Quantitative Portfolio Manager
MassMutualAbout the role
Senior Quantitative Portfolio Manager
Full-Time
Boston, MA
The Opportunity
The Senior Quantitative Portfolio Manager will oversee broad derivatives responsibilities across equity, interest rate, and volatility risk management, leading the strategic construction and evolution of derivatives-based hedging frameworks — with primary ownership of MassMutual's Variable Annuity dynamic hedging platform — and carrying end-to-end accountability for hedge design, governance, risk outcomes, and program-level P&L across market environments.
While the Variable Annuity program represents the largest and most complex initial mandate, this role is designed to add value across multiple portfolios and risk programs over time, including macro equity hedging, interest rate risk management, and other liability-driven strategies.
The successful candidate will also proactively develop, analyze, and present relative value opportunities across these markets to improve hedge efficiency, reduce long-term hedge cost, and manage downside risk.
The Team
The Quantitative Portfolio Management (QPM) team is part of Investment Management and focuses on asset-liability management (ALM), product pricing, and the formulation and execution of quantitative strategies that enhance policyholder surplus and mitigate unwanted risks across the enterprise. The team oversees derivative-related portfolio management activities, managing exposure to interest rates, equity markets, volatility, foreign exchange, and credit. QPM is a small, highly collaborative group that works closely with Enterprise Risk, Finance, Actuarial, Treasury, Accounting, Compliance, and Barings, MassMutual’s global asset management subsidiary. The team manages risk across MassMutual’s approximately $250 billion General Investment Account (GIA) and supports the firm’s most complex liability-driven portfolios.
The Impact
Own the overall performance and P&L of the Variable Annuity hedging program, including dynamic hedging, convexity management, and option strategy, with full accountability for hedge effectiveness and risk outcomes.
Lead the design, oversight, and evolution of derivatives-based hedging strategies across equity, interest rate, and volatility markets within established governance frameworks.
Collaborate closely with other portfolio managers on day-to-day hedging operations, including equity option rebalancing and execution, providing strategic oversight and guidance as needed.
Work closely with Annuity Products, Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Actuarial and other members of the Variable Annuity Risk Committee, ensuring alignment on risk, economics, assumptions, and hedge outcomes.
Partner with Quantitative Research & Development to define modeling, analytics, and tooling requirements, while QRD retains responsibility for implementation and production support.
Work in close coordination with Barings as the execution and implementation team, while retaining all strategic decision-making, hedge design, and risk ownership internally.
Contribute derivatives expertise to adjacent portfolios, including macro equity hedging and interest rate risk programs, as priorities evolve.
The Minimum Qualifications
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