Early Career Talent Partner- Technology & Platform

Belvedere Trading•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago. Our traders provide market liquidity through market-making activities across various commodities, interest rates, ETFs, and equity index options. We have consistently invested in proprietary technology, building our systems from the ground up and continuously re-engineering, optimizing, and maintaining our trading models and software systems. Our People Team department is dedicated to delivering employee-first solutions, understanding and supporting team member needs, leveraging data for insights, and advancing human-capital applications for efficiency and consistency. We seek passionate team members whose contributions are critical to our success. The People Team includes Employee Experience, People Operations, Talent, and People & Development, working collaboratively to attract top talent and ensure team members have the tools to succeed and develop. We believe university and early career hiring brings fresh perspectives and drives innovation. We are currently seeking an Early Career Talent Partner to manage intern, entry-level, and early career hiring for our Technology & Platform team. This role is crucial for building a pipeline of engineers who will develop and scale our trading business systems. The position involves attracting high-potential candidates, building relationships with technical student groups, and establishing a strong employer brand within college communities that produce top engineering talent. You will manage stakeholder relationships with Technology & Platform leadership and partner strategically with the business to drive hiring and implement best practices in technical talent acquisition.

Requirements

2+ years recruitment experience, preferably with intern, entry-level and early career talent pools in fintech, big tech , and financial firms.
Ability to manage full-cycle recruiting process including resume review, phone screens, interview scheduling and facilitation, and offer calls.
Demonstrated success recruiting at multiple universities in highly competitive markets, ideally within software engineering or technical early-career talent.
Comfort engaging with technical concepts and evaluating engineering skill signals (enough to speak credibly to hackathon organizers, CS faculty, and student developer groups, and to partner effectively with engineers on assessment design).
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to travel as needed during peak campus recruiting periods in the fall and spring, including to hackathons and technical career events.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities/projects, meet deadlines, and facilitate change with a sense of urgency.
Proven analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills with demonstrated negotiation skills and influencing positive outcomes.
Eager to take on new tasks/responsibilities and passion for candidate experience, operational excellence, and continuous development.
Experience coordinating and participating in both in-person and virtual recruiting events/activities.
Comfortable working with and presenting recruitment data and market data, reporting, and analytics.
Bachelor's Degree.

Nice To Haves

Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer. We welcome your application.

Responsibilities

Execute the campus recruitment strategy for the Technology & Platform team and influence future intern, campus, and early career recruiting cycles, including undergraduate and graduate-student recruitment.
Sponsor, attend, and support hackathons using them as a primary sourcing and brand-building channel to identify strong engineers early and build Belvedere's reputation in the community.
Own and continually sharpen our technical assessment process: partner with engineering leaders to build, run, and iterate on coding challenges and technical interviews that hold up as candidates' coursework and skill level advance.
Evaluate technical skill as students’ progress through their coursework, with a specific eye toward identifying engineers who can genuinely elevate how we code and assessing real problem-solving and coding ability rather than output that leans heavily on AI-assisted tools.
Foster and maintain relationships with computer science and engineering departments, coding clubs, and open-source /dev student organizations, positioning Belvedere as a destination employer within those communities.
Full-cycle campus recruiting for Technology & Platform roles: managing a high-volume candidate pipeline from initial application through technical assessment and offer stage, in partnership with our People Operations team on engagement and onboarding.
Partner with Technology & Platform hiring managers to understand evolving stack and skill needs and translate them into sourcing strategy and candidate evaluation criteria.
Represent Belvedere during campus visits and virtual open houses, presenting our internship programs and early engineering talent development paths.
Elevate diversity recruiting efforts by partnering with colleges/universities, student organizations, and technical events.
Retroactively analyze engagement efforts to understand the return on strategic partnerships (hackathons, clubs, academic programs) and the success of new engagements.
Provide a high-touch candidate and hiring manager experience by articulating our core values in ways that resonate with a technical, engineering-focused candidate pool.
Evaluate and measure campus recruiting results and identify areas for process and performance improvement, systematization, and automation.