Senior Equity Analyst

Optiver • Chicago, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Equity Analyst, you’ll sit directly on the trading desk, influencing real-time decisions and shaping positions with direct P&L impact. This is not a traditional equity research role – your work will be used in live trading environments where speed, adaptability, and commercial judgement are critical. You’ll bring strong experience owning sector coverage, along with a keen understanding of how fundamentals drive short-term price action and volatility. While we are open to candidates from any sector background, you should be comfortable applying your framework across new names and situations. This is a high-impact role designed for analysts who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments – and who are eager to apply their market-making instincts, short-horizon research, and option-aware thinking to drive tangible results.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as an equity analyst, within a market-making environment, proprietary trading firm, or event-driven / trading-oriented hedge fund
• Proven track record of owning sector coverage and generating differentiated, actionable insights
• Strong understanding of how fundamentals translate into short-term price moves and volatility
• Experience working closely with trading desks or in fast-feedback, P&L-driven environments
• Comfortable applying your research process across sectors, with the ability to quickly build conviction on new names
• Familiarity with options and volatility dynamics, or a strong interest in developing this expertise
• Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills; thrives in fast-moving, information-rich environments
• Clear communicator who proactively shares views and collaborates effectively with traders and researchers
• Passionate about the markets, adaptable, and driven by impact and continuous learning
• Comfortable working with large data sets and building scalable, repeatable processes

Responsibilities

• Leverage fundamental, event-driven, and short-term catalysts to create an orthogonal trading revenue stream expressed via the analyst book identify and evaluate trading opportunities
• Partner with traders to help optimize analyst and market making positions, directly owning risk in both the analyst and market making books
• Support market making desk with general insights that improve day-to-day trading decisions
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses for upcoming events and corporate developments, assessing their potential impact on both equity and volatility
• Translate research insights into actionable strategies across equities and options
• Contribute to process improvements and knowledge sharing across the analyst team, refining how fundamental insights are monetized in a market-making context
• Mentor junior analysts and support the continued growth of the equity research function

Benefits

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• Highly competitive compensation package
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed