Construction Project Manager

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

This role is built for someone who can easily transition from running a meeting with senior stakeholders to walking a construction site and speaking with contractors. You will own budgets, schedules, and quality, coordinate a network of external partners, and give leadership a clear, real-time picture of where each project stands. If you take pride in delivering construction projects on time, on budget, and to a high standard—and in the constant coordination that makes that happen—we want to hear from you. We build offices for our own people, no clients or shareholders, but to make the best workday possible for our fellow coworkers.

• Own construction projects end to end—office buildouts, renovations, and fit-outs across the current Chicago and New York offices plus a new NYC office build-out— owning scope, schedule, budget, and quality from concept through closeout.

• Define scope and build the business case: partner with internal stakeholders to determine needs, develop initial schedules and budgets, and present the concept, cost, schedule, and impact to key leaders for approval—including recommendations on speed-versus-thoroughness trade-offs tied to cost, flexibility, culture, hybrid-work enablement, and operational uptime.

• Drive procurement and the full RFP process: determine the consultants, vendors, and contractors required by scope (PM and cost-consultant support on larger projects, direct-to-trade on smaller ones), then write scope, issue bids, run bid analysis and evaluation interviews, and deliver final leveling and recommendations.

• Oversee the design process—driving stakeholder conversations and approvals, presenting recommendations, coordinating consultants and vendors to eliminate scope gaps with creative solutions, and reviewing scope documents, proposals, and drawings for design intent and company standards.

• Build and maintain detailed project schedules—sequencing trades and dependencies, tracking the critical path, and driving corrective action when work slips—and coordinate with business functions, events, and facilities to ensure zero disruption.

• Manage project budgets: track spend against forecast, control costs, communicate variances, and identify spending trends and savings; review and process all change orders and invoices against budget with accurate tracking.

• Manage contracts and external approvals: review and process all NDAs, contracts, proposals, and MSAs with proper tracking; navigate the permitting process using consultants to enforce applicable codes; and coordinate with building landlords on design review, requirements, and on-site logistics.

• Conduct regular site visits to monitor progress, verify work against plans and specs, and resolve issues early; ensure all work complies with codes, permits, leases, inspections, and health, safety, and accessibility requirements, including on-site safety oversight.

• Own project closeout and reporting: manage punch lists, inspections, documentation, warranties, and handover to facilities operations; maintain the single source of truth