Senior Vice President, High Yield Desk Strategy
Jefferies LLC, New York, NY
AI Infrastructure / Energy / Autos / Power
- Lead coverage of 100+ credits across AI Infrastructure, E&P, OFS&E, Autos, and Power, identifying asymmetric risk/reward across the capital structure.
- Source and execute high-conviction long/short ideas in both performing and distressed credit, with a focus on catalyst-driven opportunities and capital structure arbitrage.
- Apply a top-down macro framework coupled with bottoms-up credit selection to identify sector themes and translate them into actionable single-name trade ideas.
- Build bottoms-up financial models to stress-test downside scenarios, map recovery waterfalls, and underwrite risk in complex balance sheets.
- Publish original research and trade recommendations that drive PnL, spanning new issue analysis, event-driven catalysts, and relative value frameworks.
- Serve as a trusted counterpart to portfolio managers and CIOs at leading hedge funds and institutional investors, shaping portfolio positioning through differentiated sector insights.
- Lead primary market execution on high yield bonds and leveraged loans, partnering with management teams and syndicate to price and place new issuance.
- Build agentic AI tools to automate desk workflows, including research aggregation, credit monitoring, and data pipeline tasks, improving team efficiency and turnaround time.