Head of Quantitative Trading – Sports Betting – Sofia, Bulgaria (Apply Today)

Competitive – discussed at interview. Head of Quantitative Trading – Sports Betting in Sofia, Bulgaria. What you'll actually take home Competitive – discussed at interview Bulgaria applies a flat 10% income tax, and living costs in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna run well below Western European levels — the take-home goes considerably further than the headline suggests. Everything else in the package You also get senior leadership position within a growing international sports betting technology company, ownership of the company’s quantitative trading strategy and operating framework, opportunity to build and develop a high-performing quantitative trading function, direct influence over pricing, risk management, automation, and trading performance, opportunity to apply advanced statistical modelling, machine learning, and AI to real-world sports markets, access to large-scale sports and betting datasets, close collaboration with senior, and product, Engineering, Data, and Commercial leadership. The job itself CloserHire is partnering with a fast-growing international technology company within the sports betting and iGaming industry to recruit an experienced Head of Quantitative Trading for their team in Sofia, Bulgaria. This senior leadership role will take ownership of the company’s quantitative trading strategy, pricing models, risk frameworks, and trading performance. You will lead a team of quantitative analysts and traders, combining advanced statistical modelling, sports data, and technology to optimise Day to day that means define and lead the overall quantitative trading strategy across the sportsbook, lead, develop, and mentor teams of Quantitative, analysts, Traders, and Data specialists, develop and continuously improve pricing, probability, forecasting, and risk models, drive the development of automated and algorithmic approaches to sportsbook trading and pricing, analyse large volumes of sports, market, customer, and historical betting data, and ensure betting markets are priced accurately and efficiently across different sports and competitions. What you need to bring Experience managing and developing high-performing quantitative and trading teams Strong understanding of model validation, backtesting, and performance measurement Knowledge of machine learning and AI techniques applied to forecasting, pricing, or trading is an advantage Experience with automated or algorithmic trading systems is highly advantageous Experience working with large datasets and analytical technologies such as SQL Proven experience developing predictive, pricing, forecasting, or risk models Strong programming capabilities in Python, R, or similar quantitative languages Advanced knowledge of statistics, probability theory, mathematical modelling, and quantitative analysis Life in Bulgaria A flat 10% income tax and some of the lowest living costs in the EU — your salary stretches a long way. Next steps Send us your CV and we will come back to you either way A relaxed 30-minute conversation to check the role genuinely fits The company's own interview stage Offer and contract — we stay involved through paperwork and arrival Around five weeks from applying to your first day on the ground. CloserHire recruits for this role on behalf of our client. We are an equal-opportunity recruiter and consider every applicant on ability alone.