Early Career Talent Partner- Technology & Platform

Belvederetrading; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Belvedere Trading in Chicago is seeking an Early Career Talent Partner to own intern, entry-level, and early career hiring for our Technology & Platform team. You will lead campus recruitment, engage with university communities, and build a strong employer brand among colleges that feed top engineering talent.

You will partner with Tech leadership to shape sourcing and assessment, sponsor hackathons, and ensure a high-quality candidate experience throughout the process.

Qualifications

• 2+ years recruitment experience, preferably with intern, entry-level and early career talent pools in fintech, big tech, and financial firms.

Responsibilities

• Execute campus recruitment strategy for the Technology & Platform team and influence future intern, campus, and early career recruiting cycles.
• Sponsor, attend, and support hackathons to identify strong engineers early and build Belvedere's reputation in the community.
• Own and sharpen our technical assessment process: partner with engineering leaders to build, run, and iterate coding challenges and technical interviews.
• Evaluate technical skill as students progress, focusing on genuine problem-solving and coding ability.
• Foster relationships with CS departments, coding clubs, and open-source groups to position Belvedere as a destination employer.
• Full-cycle campus recruiting for Technology & Platform roles: manage high-volume pipeline from application through offer, with People Operations coordination.
• Partner with Technology & Platform hiring managers to translate stack and skill needs into sourcing criteria.
• Represent Belvedere during campus visits and virtual open houses, presenting internship programs and growth paths.
• Elevate diversity recruiting via college partnerships, student organizations, and events.
• Retroactively analyze engagement to measure ROI of partnerships and engagements.
• Provide a high-touch candidate and hiring manager experience by aligning with Belvedere's core values.

Skills

Campus recruiting

Tech recruitment

Stakeholder management

Interview coordination

Talent sourcing

Universities outreach

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry.

Our People Team department focuses on delivering employee-first solutions to the business. We go all-out to understand and support our team member's needs, leverage data to gain insights and trends, and advance our human-capital-related applications for efficiency and consistency. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success. The People Team is comprised of Employee Experience, People Operations, Talent, and People & Development. These groups work closely together to bring in the best talent for Team Belvedere and from day one, make sure that all team members have all the tools they need to succeed and develop through their tenure.

We believe university and early career hiring helps our company look at problems in alternative ways, integrate fresh perspectives, and innovate. We're currently looking for an Early Career Talent Partner to own intern, entry-level, and early career hiring for our Technology & Platform team, building the pipeline of engineers who will build and scale the systems our trading business runs on. This role will be responsible for attracting and hiring high-potential colleagues, developing quality relationships with technical student groups, and building a strong employer brand among the college communities that produce top engineering talent. You will own stakeholder relationships with Technology & Platform leadership and strategically partner with the business to drive hiring and lead best practices in technical talent acquisition.

• 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

• 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 required

Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.

Core Values

The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values:Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse.We live and breathe these values every day.

Our Stance

Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.

Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.

Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out [e-mail].

Work Schedule:

Regular and reliable attendanceduring standard business hours.

Occasional nights and weekends.

Amount of Travel Required:

Travel may occasionally be required for off-site events, conferences, or job fairs, depending on the needs of the role.

Physical:

Ability to sit and concentrate for long periods of time as well as the ability to lift 30 pounds

Sponsorship:

Not available for this position.