Global Equities - Electronic Client Solutions - Execution Consulting - Executive Director

Fairygodboss; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan seeks an Executive Director in Equities Electronic Trading to lead execution consulting and drive performance insights across its platform. You will guide analysis, research, and client engagement, shaping product priorities and client outcomes for algorithmic trading and liquidity products.

You will mentor consultants, interact with Sales, Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research, and represent the franchise externally with major clients and industry forums.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in execution consulting, algorithmic trading, product management, or quantitative trading within equities, with a track record of senior client and stakeholder impact.
• Authoritative understanding of equities market structure and market microstructure.
• Strong quantitative and statistical skills, able to interrogate large execution and trading datasets and translate insight into actionable guidance.

Responsibilities

• Help set the strategic agenda for execution consulting and performance analysis across the EMEA algorithmic and liquidity product suite.
• Drive the platform-wide execution-performance narrative, developing analysis and research to identify opportunities to improve execution quality and reduce client trading costs.
• Act as a senior, trusted advisor to our most significant clients—leading execution reviews, bespoke analysis, and strategic dialogue on trading performance and market structure.
• Educate clients on our product suite, creating high-impact thought leadership pieces and client marketing to communicate the impact of our execution research.
• Produce and oversee in-depth analysis of product usage, client trends, execution performance, and revenues to inform business and product strategy.
• Shape the product roadmap in partnership with Technology and Quantitative Research, prioritising enhancements grounded in performance evidence and market-structure insight.
• Represent the franchise externally—with clients, at industry forums, and in market-structure and regulatory dialogue.
• Mentor and develop consultants and analysts, raising the analytical and commercial capability of the team.
• Maintain authoritative knowledge of equities trading, market structure, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
• Ensure adherence with all relevant regulatory, best-execution, and control requirements.

Skills

Execution consulting

Algorithmic trading

Market structure

Python

q/KDB

Senior client engagement

Tools

Python

q/KDB

Job description

Are you a recognised authority in equities execution who turns deep market-structure and performance insight into a measurable edge for clients using electronic trading platforms? As an Executive Director in our Equities Electronic Trading team, you will lead the execution consulting agenda at the heart of our electronic trading platform - shaping how we analyse, optimise, and advise clients to improve performance outcomes.

Job Summary

As an Executive Director in Execution Consulting within the Electronic Client Solutions (ECS) team, you will play a leading role in the analysis, research, and client engagement that underpin the performance of our algorithmic trading and liquidity products. You will help drive the execution-performance narrative across the platform, set the research agenda, and translate insight into product priorities and better client outcomes. Acting as a senior advisor to our most sophisticated clients and a partner to Sales, Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research, you will represent the franchise externally, mentor a team of consultants and analysts, and play a central role in the growth and success of our electronic trading business.

Job Responsibilities

• Help to set the strategic agenda for execution consulting and performance analysis across the EMEA algorithmic and liquidity product suite.
• Drive the platform-wide execution-performance narrative, developing analysis and research that identify opportunities to improve execution quality and reduce client trading costs.
• Act as a senior, trusted advisor to our most significant clients - leading execution reviews, bespoke analysis, and strategic dialogue on trading performance and market structure.
• Educate clients on our product suite, creating high-impact thought leadership pieces and client marketing to communicate the impact of our execution research.
• Produce and oversee in-depth analysis of product usage, client trends, execution performance, and revenues to inform business and product strategy.
• Shape the product roadmap in partnership with Technology and Quantitative Research, prioritising enhancements grounded in performance evidence and market-structure insight.
• Represent the franchise externally - with clients, at industry forums, and in market-structure and regulatory dialogue.
• Mentor and develop consultants and analysts, raising the analytical and commercial capability of the team.
• Maintain authoritative knowledge of equities trading, market structure, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
• Ensure adherence with all relevant regulatory, best-execution, and control requirements.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Extensive experience in execution consulting, algorithmic trading, product management, or quantitative trading within equities, with a track record of senior client and stakeholder impact
• Authoritative understanding of equities market structure and market microstructure
• Strong quantitative and statistical skills, with the ability to interrogate large execution and trading datasets and translate them into actionable insight
• Demonstrated ability to lead a research or consulting agenda and influence product strategy across functions
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (including Python, q/KDB), with confidence handling large tick/trade datasets
• Senior client-facing presence with excellent communication skills and strong commercial awareness

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience leading or mentoring a team of consultants or analysts
• Established profile in the market-structure or execution-research community
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across technology, quantitative research, trading, legal/compliance, and sales
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects and stakeholders

This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.