Head of ETF Capital Markets

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Job Description:

Overview 

The Head of ETF Capital Markets will lead Dimensional’s global ETF capital markets team while managing relationships within the ETF ecosystem, leading extensive internal collaboration efforts to deliver Dimensional’s investment approach, and providing education and support to clients and internal stakeholders. The role requires expertise in ETF capital markets and effective leadership and relationship management skills. 

Key Responsibilities 

Investments 

• Design and oversee ETF capital markets global workflows and processes aligned with Dimensional’s investment approach of systematic active portfolio management, frequent, low-cost portfolio rebalancing, and high diversification.  

• Ensure competitive ETF market quality in US and non-US listings; provide oversight of ETF volume, primary flows, premiums/discounts, short interest and borrow and identify trends. 

• Develop and report on key performance indicators of market quality, flows, and business processes to investment leadership. 

• Collaborate with investment teams, Legal and Compliance to create and maintain ETF-specific policies and procedures, especially as they pertain to custom baskets. 

Relationship Management 

• Develop and oversee implementation of global broker relationship strategy for ETF capital markets, collaborating with the Global Head of Trading. 

• Drive relationship strategy across the ETF capital markets ecosystem, including authorized participants, market makers, trading platforms, and exchanges.

• Work closely with the global broker dealer community to promote efficient primary and secondary market activity in Dimensional ETFs. 

• Manage relationships with vendors pursuant to pricing and trading data while contributing to the build out of new tools and processes to monitor ETFs and identify future capabilities. 

External Presence 

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