Maven Securities US Limited, Chicago, IL

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

THE ROLE:

• Monitor the risk exposures that result from the activity of each relevant trading desk and adjust volatility parameters as required to ensure that the company’s pricing is in line with the market.
• Set the trading parameters of the execution systems used by the company to ensure competitive participation in the marketplace.
• Follow the trading flow to ensure optimal positioning to absorb the supply and demand disbalances that occasionally drive market prices.
• Develop and maintain a daily trading plan to anticipate various trading scenarios and set out intended courses of action depending on each outcome.
• Monitor key trading statistics to ensure that trading activities are appropriately adjusted as soon as deviation from prescribed KPIs becomes apparent.
• Liaise with brokers, assess pricing structures, and provide up-to-the-minute pricing quotes based on market conditions and data analysis.
• Monitor the trading behavior and determine whether the quoting behaviors of the systems are sound and competitive based on a thorough understanding of the market and relevant data.
• Make adjustments to trading logic by preparing or requesting the relevant change to the quoting script and following through with its implementation and release into production and by making changes to internal trading systems.
• Identify and implement modifications to internal trading systems, including assessing the logic amendment required, formulating a request, discussing with key stakeholders, including the Head of Desk, submitting feature change requests, and working with the technology team to see the change through implementation.
• Establish and refine metrics that enable the trading desk to assess the pricing dislocation in risk factors relevant to the desk: implied vs realized volatility, implied vs realized skew, kurtosis, and future spread level.
• Investigate trades that challenge the competitiveness or the sound functioning of systems through detailed and thorough review of to-the-microsecond and order-by-order market data, and make improvements to that research framework.
• Train and guide juniors and experienced hires to ensure that all team members have a thorough understanding of the tools that underpin trading activities.

Salary: $150,000-180,000 per annum.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

•  Requires Master’s degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or a related field of study, plus one (1) year of experience with financial theory; relative value trading; systematic position taking; modeling; developing and maintaining a daily trading plan; risk monitoring; C++ scripting and/or Python scripting. 

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Amazing opportunity to be a key member of a highly committed employee-owned
  trading firm.
• The upside of start-up without the associated risks.
• Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
• Informal dress code.
• Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant
  impact.
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance coverage for employees and their
  dependents. 401k with employer match. Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability,
  and Life Insurance. Annual learning and development stipend.

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Senior Quantitative Researcher - Options Market Making 

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

The role: 

As a Senior Quantitative Researcher, you will lead projects that have a direct impact on our trading performance. You will work collaboratively with other researchers and traders from various scientific fields and prestigious academic institutions, to develop innovative real-time trading models and solutions for low latency trading systems for exchange-traded options. You will share your knowledge and expertise with other researchers to tackle various challenging projects including but not limited to option pricing and volatility models, algorithm design and alpha research.

What we’re looking for: 

• Academic degree in applied mathematics, computer science, statistics engineering or physics. PhD or any other track record in conducting independent research. 
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, particularly electronic options trading. 
• Ability to research advanced algorithms, develop predictive models and verify complex hypotheses using large datasets.
• Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities. 
• A collaborative bridge between developers, and traders who aligns technical work with commercial impact and the broader strategic vision, and a real team player with other quants in the team.

Why you should apply: 

• Rare opportunity to take a high level of responsibility at a fast-growing global trading firm 
• Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape our trading
• Flexible research environment to iterate on your ideas quickly and see the impact of your work in production
• Leadership opportunities as the team grow
• Great engineering environment where technology, creativity and innovation is key to our success
• An environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• Competitive compensation 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast and lunch
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Group Pension plan 

The Options Market Making team at Maven Securities operates under a strict direct sourcing model. We are committed to managing all recruitment activities internally to ensure a consistent and transparent candidate experience. As such, we do not accept unsolicited CVs or introductions from recruitment agencies. If you're interested in this opportunity, please apply directly.

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

THE ROLE

You'll join an Options Market Making desk as a Trading Analyst. You'll analyse trading data, prototype strategies with traders, and build tools that help the desk make better decisions.

We've invested in modern tooling — including AI — so you can move fast and spend your time on the problems that matter. Markets generate questions faster than anyone can answer them, and your job is to figure out which ones matter, find good answers, and explain what you've found to people who'll act on it.

We're looking for someone who's curious about markets, thinks creatively about problems, and is willing to challenge an answer — whoever or whatever produced it.

WHAT THE WORK LOOKS LIKE

• Digging into trading data, surfacing patterns, and producing analysis the desk can act on
• Working directly with traders to prototype ideas, test hypotheses, and iterate on strategies
• Building scripts, dashboards, and automated workflows that make the desk smarter over time
• Framing trading problems in ways that get the most out of our tooling
• Spotting operational improvements, data anomalies, and strategy refinements — and bringing them to the desk

WHO YOU ARE

How you think

• You enjoy deep analysis of problems and get energized by questions you don't yet know how to answer
• You don't trust an output just because it looks polished — you verify and iterate
• You're comfortable testing ideas under uncertainty
• You explain complex things clearly

What you know

• Strong Python — you can write it, read it, debug it, and confidently review code
• Solid numerical and analytical skills — comfortable with statistical reasoning and data interpretation
• SQL, or the willingness to learn it quickly
• Some experience with AI tools for analysis, coding, or research — we don't expect mastery, but you should have been experimenting

Who you are

• Interested in financial markets, derivatives, and how markets work
• You take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks
• You make the people around you more effective
• You're adaptable — the tools and landscape shift constantly

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience in a trading environment or financial services
• Experience building dashboards, data pipelines, or analytical tools
• A portfolio, GitHub profile, or side projects — we care more about how you think and build than where you studied

WHY MAVEN

• Your analysis will directly shape trading decisions from day one
• Competitive compensation in a high-performance environment
• Be part of a firm that embodies integrity and fairness, market leadership, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

THE ROLE

We are looking for an ambitious and proactive Equity Options Quant Trader to join our Vol Alpha Trading Team. This is a full-cycle quant trader position within a semi-systematic desk that specialises in statistical arbitrage relative value volatility,  flow-aware volatility position taking, and opportunistic dispersion trades across global equity volatilities, with a current emphasis on US equity options.

The team runs an investment operation focusing on informed position taking combining statistical information and market flows observations. The successful candidate will play a key role in the desk’s day to day operation and future evolution as it expands its volatility strategies set as well as broader operation capabilities across products.

The role will suit candidates with quantitative research or trading experience as part of a large volatility desk who want to transition into a more hands-on buy side risk-taking role which deploy statistical methods to extract alpha while having full understanding on what is driving an alpha’s performance. The successful candidate will experience an end-to-end investment process from market intuition, alpha discovery, to trade execution, which translates to a potential heavy contribution to the desk’s success and take meaningful ownership in PnL.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor and rationalise market flow to identify pricing dislocations
• Analyse and interpret other market participants’ positionings to identify trading opportunities
• Conduct research and backtests on pricing and structuring volatility curve, term structure, relative value and dispersion trades
• Contribute to new alpha discovery through a combination of market dynamics observations and quantitative research toolings
• Active participation in trading and risk-managing an extensive equity options portfolio as part of a team
• Active participation in the desk’s future build-out into a bigger set of alpha and systematic strategies
• Full end-to-end investment cycle from intuition, research, to execution
• Collaboration with infrastructure and development teams to optimise electronic trading execution and minimise dependencies

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS

• 2–5 years’ experience in US equity options quantitative research or trading. Experience from a major vol desk is a plus (bank, or multi-strategy hedge fund preferred)
• Strong understanding of options markets, volatility, and equity derivatives
• Exposure to or strong interest in volatility relative value, volatility carry, term structure and path, or dispersion strategies
• Commercial trading mindset with appetite for risk ownership and strategy responsibility
• Strong interest and ability to operate in a fast-moving, opportunistic trading environment
• Strong analytical skills and research capabilities
• Familiarity with Python and SQL or similar programming and database languages

WHAT WE OFFER

• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact
• Competitive compensation package
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Group pension plan
• Enhanced annual leave allowance after 2+ years’ service
• 25 days’ annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks prepared by an in-house chef
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• On-site private gym with instructor-led classes including boxing, yoga, and more
• Monthly company events and social activities

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

THE ROLE: We are looking for an ambitious and proactive European Single Stock Options Market Maker with a proven profit / risk management history to be a part of our equity options market making desk. The eligible candidate has extensive experience trading single stocks options on multiple European exchanges as well as the ability and leadership skills to build out expanding desks. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Day-to-day responsibility of trading and managing a part of the single stocks options book
• Rigorous risk management and compliance with regulatory rules
• Improving option pricing and trading strategies through close collaboration with a team of fundamental stock analysts 
• Designing, implementing and improving strategies through data  analysis, prototyping and collaboration with developers
• Driving pricing and execution improvements through combining systematic and quantitative skills with product knowledge 

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS:

• At least 3 years experience trading European single stock options in a market making role
• Successful track record of proven P&L and market share
• Good understanding of the market structure of European single stock options
• Outstanding numerical, analytical skills and excellent attention to detail
• Familiarity with automated options trading strategies and a proactive interest in their development
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in an expanding, highly successful firm
• Embodiment of Maven’s core values: Integrity and fairness, market leading, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability
• Experience in programming is a plus

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

The role: 

As a Senior Quantitative Researcher, you will lead projects that have a direct impact on our trading performance. You will work collaboratively with other researchers and traders from various scientific fields and prestigious academic institutions, to develop innovative real-time trading models and solutions for low latency trading systems for exchange-traded options. You will share your knowledge and expertise with other researchers to tackle various challenging projects including but not limited to option pricing and volatility models, algorithm design and alpha research.

What we’re looking for: 

• Academic degree in applied mathematics, computer science, statistics engineering or physics. PhD or any other track record in conducting independent research. 
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, particularly electronic options trading. 
• Ability to research advanced algorithms, develop predictive models and verify complex hypotheses using large datasets.
• Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities. 
• A collaborative bridge between developers, and traders who aligns technical work with commercial impact and the broader strategic vision, and a real team player with other quants in the team.

Why you should apply: 

• Rare opportunity to take a high level of responsibility at a fast-growing global trading firm 
• Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape our trading
• Flexible research environment to iterate on your ideas quickly and see the impact of your work in production
• Leadership opportunities as the team grow
• Great engineering environment where technology, creativity and innovation is key to our success
• An environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• Competitive compensation 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast and lunch
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Group Pension plan 

The Options Market Making team at Maven Securities operates under a strict direct sourcing model. We are committed to managing all recruitment activities internally to ensure a consistent and transparent candidate experience. As such, we do not accept unsolicited CVs or introductions from recruitment agencies. If you're interested in this opportunity, please apply directly.

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

THE ROLE: We are looking for ambitious and proactive Options Market Makers with a proven profit / risk management history to be a part of our expanding trading desk. The eligible candidate must be willing to trade a variety of instruments to help expand the expansion of our US office in Chicago. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Day-to-day responsibility of the options book
• Rigorous risk management and perfect compliance with regulatory rules
• Improving strategies through analysis, prototyping and collaboration with developers
• Proactive behavior in helping other books achieve their goals through observation and analysis of trading behavior
• Designing and implementing new trading strategies
• Openness to trading new products and willingness to set them up
• To comply with all applicable Compliance policies, procedures, laws and regulations.

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS:

• Prior options trading experience
• Successful track record of proven P&L and market share
• Good understanding of trading systems
• Outstanding numerical and analytical skills
• Familiarity with automated options trading strategies and an interest in their development
• Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in an expanding, highly successful firm
• Excellent attention to detail
• Fast problem solving skills
• Embodiment of Maven’s core values: Integrity and fairness, market leading, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability
• Programming skills (desirable)