Senior Equity Options Volatility Trader

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Our US Equity Options business has become one of the leading liquidity-providers in the marketplace.
• We’ve already created partnerships and business models to facilitate our expansion and we continue to improve our options pricing, particularly in the volatility space.
• You will maximize revenue by both finding, and then capitalizing on short term mispricing, as well as managing larger positions
• You will work closely with our best-in-class research and quant teams to analyze your results and improve your approach
• You will have lots of responsibility and ownership early to drive strategies forward and be successful
• IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility involves working with others to identify and describe mispricings, interact with the market, and push forward visibility improvements

Your Skills and Experience: 

• You are an experienced equity options trader with at least 2 years’ experience
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset with a healthy risk appetite, are competitive by nature, and are a fast decision maker
• You have an ability to identify patterns and describe them analytically. Preference for relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results
• You are passionate about understanding volatility dynamics and willing to immediately act on your opinions to capture market opportunities.
• You are in tune with the fundamental drivers of stocks we trade and can work effectively with a research analyst team to make decisions