Graduate Floor Trader 2027
About The Position
Maven is a proprietary trading firm that allocates internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Its traders, engineers, and technologists work to improve the firm’s efficiency as a liquidity provider for global listed derivatives, using execution and pricing technologies. Maven is seeking a junior trader to join its Options Market Making team in Chicago in September 2027. The role’s primary function is to provide liquidity and execute trades on Maven’s behalf while physically located in the CBOE SPX trading pit, using Maven’s proprietary pricing and tooling. The trader will also collaborate with in-house traders and developers to improve the desk’s tooling, pricing, and execution. Before taking up the Chicago role, the successful candidate will attend approximately five weeks of training as part of Maven’s Graduate Trader Training cohort in London, beginning on 6 September 2027.
Requirements
- 0–2 years of experience in Options Market Making.
- Ability to make decisions very quickly in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with trading partners.
- Demonstrated interest in financial markets.
- Outstanding numerical and analytical skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Strong Python and Excel skills.
- Embody Maven’s core values: integrity and fairness, market leading, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline, and accountability.
Responsibilities
- Execute trades.
- Create tools and systems to advance the team’s trading and operational processes.
- Improve trading and automation tools that support research, pricing, and execution.
- Take day-to-day responsibility for scripts that support trading activity.
- Analyze trading strategies and suggest improvements to manage position sizes and exposure.
- Work with traders to design and improve trading strategies through data analysis, prototyping, and collaboration with developers.
- Proactively support operational tasks on the trading desks.
Benefits
- Five weeks of training in the London office.
- 401(k).
- Annual discretionary bonus.
- 25 days’ annual leave.
- Informal dress code.
- Private healthcare and life assurance.
- Monthly company events.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
