Institutional Trader
Chicagoonsite
via Greenhouse
About this role
Optiver is looking for an Institutional Trader to join our Trading Team. As one of the key faces of our organization, you will translate market intricacies into strategic trades, driving profitability and expanding our trading counterparties utilizing your strong interpersonal skills. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of our institutional business.
What you’ll do
Institutional traders often take on the largest and most impactful trades across the landscape. Every day presents them with new interactions, experiences and situations to navigate.
As an Institutional Trader, your key responsibilities include:
Represent Optiver by managing current and building new relationships with external counterparties
Interpret large flows to inform trading strategies…
What we'd score you on
reqspace match rubricFive dimensions, recruiter-grade. Upload your resume and we'll generate a written explanation of where you fit and where the gaps are.
1
Skills match
We compare your skills against the role requirements.
2
Level fit
We check your title trajectory against the seniority signal of the role.
3
Domain experience
Your work in the role's domain matters more than your years total. We weight recent and direct experience.
4
Recency
A skill you used last quarter weighs more than one from five years ago. We grade on recency, not lifetime.
5
Location fit
This role is based in Chicago. We weight your proximity and willingness to relocate.
Score yourself on this role.
Free · no card · written explanation included
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