PhD Sourcing Specialist

• Map the PhD and postdoc talent landscape across the technical disciplines relevant to IMC's business - understanding which programs labs and research communities are producing the talent that matters to us
• Track competitive hiring trends fellowship programs and academic community dynamics to keep IMC's strategy current and proactive
• Serve as an internal expert on the research talent market regularly sharing insights with recruiting leadership and business stakeholders

• Develop and maintain relationships with faculty advisors lab leads and student researchers at target institutions - building IMC's presence and credibility in academic communities over time
• Represent IMC at key academic conferences and research events (NeurIPS ICML ICLR and others) with a candidate-facing focus: building connections identifying talent and deepening relationships - not managing logistics
• Partner with our APAC and European recruiting teams on shared talent pools ensuring a coordinated global approach to PhD-level attraction

• Own IMC's PhD-focused programs end-to-end: our PhD Fellowship conference travel grants and lab partnership initiatives - from strategy and design through execution and iteration
• Identify gaps in our current PhD engagement approach and develop new initiatives that strengthen our position with research communities
• Build and maintain a strong alumni and fellow network cultivating ongoing relationships that generate referrals advocacy and re-engagement over time

• Source and pipeline PhD candidates across IMC's technical hiring areas partnering with teams across the business as PhD recruitment continues to grow in scope and demand
• Develop and execute creative outreach strategies - direct engagement conference follow-up research community participation - to identify high-potential candidates at all career stages: PhD students postdocs and selectively experienced researchers
• Hand off qualified engaged candidates to recruiters with context relationships and momentum already built

• Bachelor's degree; 4-7 years of experience in university recruiting talent strategy research partnerships or academic engagement programs ideally within a technical quantitative or research-driven environment
• Strong understanding of AI/ML research ecosystems leading research labs academic conferences and influential advisors
• Demonstrated ability to build authentic long-term relationships within academic and research communities
• Experience identifying and engaging talent through channels such as arXiv Hugging Face GitHub Discord Twitter/X and other research and developer communities
• Proven ability to develop and execute sourcing programs or strategic initiatives using data feedback and market insights
• Collaborative approach with experience partnering closely with recruiters hiring managers and regional stakeholders in fast-paced environments
• Strong communication organizational and stakeholder management skills with a high degree of ownership and sound judgment

What We Do

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Why Work With Us

At IMC the best ideas win regardless of hierarchy. Graduates receive mentorship and make an impact from day one while experienced hires get to shape their own path in a flexible high-performance environment. We remove barriers so everyone can grow and help drive one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.

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