Senior Equity Market-Maker Analyst

Optiver; Illinois; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global team

Profit sharing

401(k) match

Health coverage

Vacation days

Office perks

Job summary

Optiver in the United States (Illinois) seeks a Senior Equity Analyst to sit on the trading desk, influencing real-time decisions with direct P&L impact. This is not traditional equity research; speed, adaptability, and commercial judgment drive value in live trading environments.

You’ll own sector coverage and translate fundamentals into short-term price action and volatility, collaborating with traders to optimize positions across the analyst and market-making books and applying your framework

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an equity analyst in a market-making environment, prop trading firm, or event-driven trading hedge fund.
• Proven track record of owning sector coverage and delivering differentiated, actionable insights.
• Strong understanding of how fundamentals translate into short-term price moves and volatility.

Responsibilities

• Leverage fundamental, event-driven, and short-term catalysts to identify trading opportunities and money-making opportunities.
• Partner with traders to optimize analyst and market making positions and directly own risk in both books.
• Support market making desk with insights to improve day-to-day trading decisions.
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses for upcoming events and corporate developments affecting equity and volatility.
• Translate research insights into actionable strategies across equities and options.
• Contribute to process improvements and share knowledge to monetize insights in a market-making context.
• Mentor junior analysts and support growth of the equity research function.

Skills

Equity analysis

Market making

P&L driven

Event-driven trading

Volatility awareness

Job description

Optiver in the United States (Illinois) seeks a Senior Equity Analyst to sit on the trading desk, influencing real-time decisions with direct P&L impact. This is not traditional equity research; speed, adaptability, and commercial judgment drive value in live trading environments.

You’ll own sector coverage and translate fundamentals into short-term price action and volatility, collaborating with traders to optimize positions across the analyst and market-making books and applying your framework