Warm-Intro Into a Non-Trading Seat at a Multi-Strat Fund
The trading desk gets the attention, but multi-strat funds run huge data, platform, and business teams that hire like tech companies do. The way in is a warm path from someone already inside that function.
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A plain LinkedIn search buries the people who would actually help you.
It ranks by prominence, so the most-followed, most-messaged names sit on top. FindWarmIntros surfaces the coworkers who share your school or a past employer - the people most likely to reply - and hands you a ready-to-send intro.
✍️ Ready-to-send intro“Hi - we both studied at [your school]. I’d love to hear about your path to a company you are targeting before I apply…”
… plus everyone else in your network who can put in a good word.
See who can refer you in - pick a quant & trading target:
Non-Trading Orgs Are Bigger Than the Desk
At a multi-strategy fund, portfolio managers and traders are a small fraction of the headcount. Point72 and its peers run large central teams for data engineering, platform and infrastructure, market data, security, and business functions like finance, legal, and people ops. Cubist, the systematic arm, hires engineers and researchers who look a lot like big-tech candidates.
That changes your strategy. You are not reaching a PM through a mutual finance contact. You are reaching a data engineering lead, a platform manager, or a business-ops director, and the best bridge is a former colleague or a schoolmate already inside that specific function.
Map the Function, Then Find Your Person
Before you look for a contact, decide which door you are knocking on. A referral only works when it comes from inside the team that owns the req.
- Name the exact team. Data engineering, ML platform, market data, quant dev, and business operations are separate orgs with separate hiring managers. Pick the one your background actually fits.
- Look for ex-colleagues first. Multi-strats pull heavily from fintech, big tech, and other funds. Someone from your last company who moved there is a stronger bridge than any recruiter, because they can vouch for your real work.
- Use school ties as the opener. A shared alma mater earns a reply even with no prior relationship. It gives you an honest reason to reach out that is not the job.
- Skip the trading-floor contacts. A trader you know cannot refer you into data engineering. Route to the function you want, where the hiring manager and the referral bonus both live.
Make Saying Yes Cost 30 Seconds
Lead with what you share, keep the first message to three sentences, and make the ask small. Ask for 20 minutes about their team, not a referral. People help when helping is cheap and the connection is real.
When the call goes well, the referral is usually offered, not requested. At most multi-strats the referrer gets a bonus for a hire that sticks, so a strong candidate is a gift to the person referring you, not a favor you are begging for.
Finding the Right Insider Without Guessing
The hard part is not writing the note, it is finding the one person inside the right function who shares your school or a past employer. Scrolling company pages by hand is slow, and you miss the non-obvious overlaps that make the best intros.
FindWarmIntros does that finding-and-ranking step for you: give it the fund and your background, and it surfaces the real people at a place like Point72 you share a school or employer with, ranked by how reachable they are, then drafts a warm intro you can edit. You still send it yourself and still do the conversation, you just skip the manual hunt.