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Company Info

• Sector: Trading, Financial Services

• Size of Company: ~40 (20 eng's)

• Funding Stage: Privately funded/Profitable for many years

• Leadership profiles: CTO, Joohan Lee

• Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/summitsecuritiesgroup/

• Business Model: Trading/Quant Trading

• Office policy: Onsite/Hybrid, Financial District

• Role Location: New York, NY

What Worth Likes:

• Human Intuition, Machine Intelligence, Relentless exploration

• Highly profitable for many years, Clear Street, which is now a billion dollar company was seeded from the founders of Summit, very strong leadership

• Stay under the radar by design

• Human trading combined with extremely strong machine/algorithmic technology

Director of IT Job Description

Summit Securities Group provides liquidity and transparency to electronic financial markets across the globe. Their skilled team of cross-functional experts engage in quantitative and algorithmic trading to generate exceptional results in highly competitive and rapidly changing global financial markets.

About the Role

• Summit Securities is seeking a Director of IT to lead and scale its technology support function as it continues to grow. This role will oversee all IT operations across the organization—ranging from user support and SaaS administration to system security and vendor management. The Director will be both a hands-on technologist and a strategic leader, ensuring that the IT infrastructure not only runs smoothly but evolves to meet the needs of a fast-paced, high-performing business.

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• The company is looking for someone with an engineer’s mindset—focused on automation, programmability, and repeatability—while also being obsessed with delivering a world-class customer experience for its employees.

Responsibilities

• Assume and oversee all IT operations, including:

• SaaS administration and integration of company-wide tools and platforms

• End-user systems (desktops, laptops, monitors, printers, and other hardware)

• Security systems and user monitoring

• Local vendor management

• Lead and develop a small yet impactful IT team (currently at least 1 direct report, supporting approximately 85 employees).

• Provide strategic foresight on IT initiatives while maintaining a hands-on approach to technical problem-solving.

• Drive process improvement and automation to ensure repeatability and scalability.

• Collaborate with business leaders to comprehend needs and deliver IT solutions that support growth.

• Maintain and enforce best practices in security, compliance, and system administration.

• Elevate IT’s role as a support function that enables business objectives, rather than merely maintaining existing systems.

Qualifications

• 10 years of IT experience with a progression from system administration to IT leadership.

• Strong background in Windows system administration and PowerShell scripting.

• Proven ability to manage and scale IT in a fast-growing company (ideally ~100 employees).

• Experience overseeing IT support functions, SaaS tools, and security systems.

• High aptitude for problem-solving with a proactive, “always improving” mindset.

• Bias toward action—hard worker who takes ownership and thrives in a growth-oriented culture.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills with a focus on professionalism and customer experience.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; strong value placed on longevity and career progression.

TECH STACK: Windows, Hardware, Desktop, EUS, Peripherals, Systems

Compensation

• Base salaries range from $180,000 to $220,000.These ranges are representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Summit Securities Group. Which range a candidate fits into and where a candidate falls in the range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. These ranges represent Base Salary only, which is just one element of our total compensation. The ranges stated do not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses.

Values/Mission 

• “Our top priority is our people. We invest in a culture that promotes togetherness, helping each other through challenges and celebrating each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by having diverse high-performance workforces — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.”

Benefits

• Summit Securities Group offers competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. 

• They believe that working together in person helps solve the complex challenges we solve. They require employees to be in the office 4 days per week. 

• In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing colleagues.