Experienced Recruiter – Technology and Business Operations

UNKNOWN; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC is seeking an experienced recruiter to join the Experienced Recruitment team and drive hiring across technology and business operations. The role requires building strong relationships with hiring managers, understanding teams and talent markets, and developing thoughtful strategies to attract outstanding candidates.

Candidates with trading or financial services background are not required, but fresh perspectives are valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting across technology, business operations, or broad roles.
• Proven ability to identify, engage, and close top candidates in competitive markets.
• Curiosity to learn unfamiliar functions and roles quickly.
• Strong stakeholder management and advisory skills.
• Experience developing sourcing strategies beyond inbound applications.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to understand teams, priorities, and hiring needs.
• Advise hiring managers on talent markets, assessment, and recruiting best practices.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing engaging active and passive candidates.
• Build high-quality pipelines through direct sourcing and referrals.
• Manage full lifecycle from intake to offer and close.
• Assess candidates for capabilities, motivation, and cultural fit.
• Create engaging candidate experiences showcasing IMC’s culture and opportunities.
• Manage external recruitment partners and ensure alignment.
• Continuously improve recruitment processes for efficiency and quality.
• Provide updates to stakeholders with data and insights.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Stakeholder management

Talent sourcing

Relationship building

Market intelligence

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Applicant Tracking Systems

Job description

At IMC, our success depends on attracting exceptional people across every part of our business. We’re looking for an experienced recruiter to join our Experienced Recruitment team and drive hiring across technology and business operations roles.

This is a high-impact role for someone who can quickly understand different teams and talent markets, build strong relationships with hiring managers, and develop thoughtful strategies to attract outstanding candidates. Prior experience in trading or financial services is not required; we are particularly interested in recruiters who can bring fresh perspectives and translate experience from other highly performing, innovative organizations.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Partner closely with leaders across technology and business operations to understand their teams, priorities, and hiring needs.
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing insights on talent markets, candidate availability, assessment, and recruiting best practices.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies that engage both active and passive candidates across a diverse range of functions and experience levels.
• Build high-quality talent pipelines through direct sourcing, networking, referrals, research, and long-term relationship building.
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from role intake and market mapping through assessment, offer, and close.
• Assess candidates for their capabilities, potential, motivation, and alignment with IMC’s culture and the needs of the hiring team.
• Create a personalized and engaging candidate experience that clearly communicates IMC’s work, culture, and opportunities.
• Manage external recruitment partners when needed, ensuring clear expectations, high-quality delivery, and alignment with IMC’s standards.
• Continuously evaluate and improve recruitment processes to increase efficiency, consistency, and quality of hire.
• Provide clear, regular updates to stakeholders, using data and market insights to highlight progress, identify challenges, and inform recruiting strategies.

Your Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with experience hiring across technology, business operations, or a similarly broad portfolio of roles.
• A strong track record of identifying, engaging, and closing high-quality candidates in competitive talent markets.
• The curiosity and learning agility to quickly understand unfamiliar functions, roles, and candidate profiles.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence, advise, and adapt as business priorities evolve.
• Experience developing sourcing strategies and engaging passive candidates rather than relying primarily on inbound applications or agencies.
• Excellent organization and execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple searches and stakeholders while maintaining a high bar for quality.
• Strong judgment and communication skills, with the ability to create credible and engaging experience for candidates and hiring teams.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems and other recruitment tools to manage activity, maintain accurate data, and generate insights.
• Undergraduate degree required.

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

#LI-DNI

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$120,000—$160,000 USD

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.