Role deep-dive· Advisor-facing operations

📈Trade Operations Specialist

You run morning trading for a TAMP's centralized trading desk, generating model-driven rebalance trades across 8,000 acc

Sourced from 9 recent JDs · snapshot taken 2026-06-20

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What this role pays — by city, years & skill stack

New York · Wall Street + wirehouses + a fintech bench
$78k
$59k$103k median band

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Day-in-the-life

Day-in-the-life (sourced from 9 recent JDs)

You run morning trading for a TAMP's centralized trading desk, generating model-driven rebalance trades across 8,000 accounts, resolving OMS errors before the 9:30 AM market open.

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Recommended path

How to land — and survive — as a Trade Operations Specialist

  1. Step 1 · Free · play now
    Run the Skill DNA drill — see where you stand on Drift bands & model assignment
    Hands-on drill

    A fast, scenario-based self-assessment. Replayable, no signup, 5–10 minutes. Different from the multiple-choice quizzes further down the page.

  2. Step 2 · Premium · full playbook
    Trade Operations Specialist playbook (preview)

    Hand-curated checklists, real templates, and the failure modes nobody documents — see the first 30% free.

    Preview
  3. Step 3 · 1:1 · operator session
    Mock interview with an operator

    30-minute 1:1: role-specific case prompts, portfolio review, and offer-negotiation talk-track.

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