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 Head of Market Data is responsible for the development and execution of Maven's market data strategy, requirements, and vendor negotiations. Working with the wider business stakeholders, the Head of Market Data will manage all commercial, strategic, and administrative aspects of the market data lifecycle, collaborating closely with technology counterparts who are responsible for data delivery and any technical requirements.

This position requires a keen understanding of the global market data industry, including market data policies, business models, and pricing, as well as a solid understanding of Maven's strategy and objectives as far as they relate to market data. The role will require a strong balance of strategic vision, commercial outlook, and operational expertise to provide the most optimum platform for growth with minimal risk.

This position will sit in London, reporting into the Chief Legal Officer and working closely with business and technology stakeholders. It is a full-time permanent role and remuneration comprises an annual base salary depending on experience plus a discretionary bonus.

Hybrid working: 4 days a week in the office

Role Responsibilities:

Data Strategy & Leadership

• Development and ownership of Maven's overarching Market Data Strategy, including a roadmap for data sourcing, cost management, vendor diversification, and alignment with business growth objectives;
• Understanding the distinct market data requirements across Maven's business areas, including discretionary trading, systematic/quantitative trading, and options market making;
• Defining and tracking KPIs for the market data function, reporting progress to senior management;
• Acting as Maven's subject matter expert and internal advisor on all market data matters.

Process Improvement & Operational Excellence

• Review and optimisation of existing market data processes, workflows, and governance frameworks, identifying inefficiencies and implementing improvements;
• Complete management of monthly data reporting, annual licensing, and exchange audits, collaborating with technology to achieve automation where possible;
• Management of Maven's data catalogue, raising its profile with business users as a tool to review available data sets;
• Understanding technical, industry, regulatory, trading, and business operations detail and its impact to support business decision-making.
• Creation of a data inventory for use by Maven staff, indexing all data usage across the business

Commercial & Vendor Management

• Deep technical understanding of market data licensing across all global exchanges that Maven is active on;
• Negotiation and management of all market data vendor contracts, ensuring commercially optimal terms;
• Identifying opportunities to achieve cost optimisation and enhance service levels;
• Ownership and management of the market data budget, including forecasting, tracking spend, and reporting to senior management;
• Establishing, maintaining, and developing relationships with industry contacts and key third-party data vendors;
• Evaluation and procurement of alternative data sources (e.g., sentiment data, satellite data, web-scraped data) to support quantitative and systematic trading strategies;
• Proactively identifying further opportunities for new and alternative data sets and their possible use cases within Maven.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensuring compliance with all market data licensing obligations, regulatory requirements, and internal governance standards;
• Management of market data-related risks including licensing non-compliance, audit exposure, and contractual obligations;
• Deep understanding of Maven's use and interaction with all types of data, ensuring appropriate controls and documentation are in place.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Stakeholder management across Trading Desks, Technology/Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Finance;
• Coordination of market data-related communication and collaboration with trading, development, and operational teams globally across the organisation;
• Attendance at industry events, conferences, and meetings to build business intelligence and maintain contacts.

Candidate Specifications:

• At least 7 years' experience gained within market data policy and licensing at a data or technology vendor, proprietary trading firm, exchange, fund manager, audit or due diligence firm, or management consultancy;
• Proven track record of negotiating complex data licensing agreements with major vendors (e.g., Bloomberg, LSE/Refinitiv, ICE, CME);
• Demonstrable experience of building or significantly improving a market data function, including strategy development and process improvement;
• Experience with data management platforms, market data inventory tools (e.g., TRG Screen, Alveo), or equivalent.
• Experience leveraging AI and machine learning tools to enhance data management processes, automate workflows, or support data-driven decision-making.

Knowledge:

• Excellent knowledge in market data policy and licensing, plus at least one of the following key areas:
• I.T. operations and infrastructure
• Financial products, particularly equities, futures, and options
• Securities exchanges
• Compliance and regulation
• Legal contract review

Skills & Competencies:

• Ability to think strategically while executing operationally;
• Ability to work autonomously and influence without direct authority across multiple senior stakeholder groups;
• Ability to communicate and reason effectively with key stakeholders at all levels;
• Ability to demonstrate sound judgement, decision-making, and organisational skills;
• Excellent verbal and numerical reasoning skills;
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and VBA.
• Proficiency in AI tools and technologies, with the ability to identify and implement AI-driven solutions to improve market data operations, reporting, vendor analysis, and cost optimisation. A strong interest in emerging AI applications within financial data management is essential.

What We Offer:

• A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

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Work Experience Programme Overview

Our Work Experience programme provides the opportunity to join Maven at an early stage of your career as you consider your options after leaving school. We believe everyone is entitled to a fair opportunity and make extraordinary efforts to seek potential candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Maven's work experience week offers first-hand insight into the day in the life of a Mavenite. The programme will focus on communication, employability skills and interview practice to prepare you for future recruitment processes. It will also provide you with a short-term project and work shadowing opportunities in one of Maven’s business areas. This is a unique opportunity for 6th form students who are keen to find out more about Maven, and fire up their professional skills in a friendly and collaborative environment. To be eligible for this programme, you must currently be studying at secondary school in year 12 or 13. Please note that while you may get the opportunity to network with employees from different areas of the business, including Trading,  this is not a Trading-focused programme. 

This programme is aimed at students who have minimal or no work experience and are looking to gain some guidance on their options after secondary school and some first-hand experience of what life is like at a company like Maven. 

We embrace innovative technology in our work, but we want to hear you; your voice, your experiences, your story. Please don't ask AI to write your application from scratch or copy and paste generated answers. You’ll lose the chance to show us what makes you right for this opportunity. We've also found that AI-generated applications often contain incorrect information that will result in your application being unsuccessful.

Accommodation and Travel Support 

If you don't live locally to Maven's London office, we will provide accommodation throughout the programme. We will also support with train travel to and from the office where required. Accommodation and travel support is provided at no cost to the student. Further information, including eligibility for accommodation, can be provided upon request. 

Please note, whilst you are required to upload a CV, it does not need to be perfect and can instead be a first draft. If you do not currently have one and this is a barrier to applying please reach out to emergingtalent@mavensecurities.com

Deadline to apply is Tuesday 26th May 2026.

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.

We are hiring for an exciting new FP&A Analyst role to join the Commercial Finance team in Maven Securities. Commercial Finance sits at  the centre of management reporting, presenting financial results to senior stakeholders and providing insight to support decision making.

This role will initially focus on management reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, and cost allocation support. You’ll further have the opportunities to work with stakeholders across the business to ensure timely, accurate reporting and will contribute to projects that improve data quality and automate finance processes.

We are looking for someone who is tech and data oriented, curious to learn different tech tools, and has strong attention to detail, with the confidence to work cross-functionally and take ownership of deliverables.

What You’ll Be Doing

Management reporting

• Update and maintain management reporting packs (KPIs, commentary), ensuring consistency of definitions and strong controls.
• Produce monthly reporting on actuals vs budget/forecast, including MoM variances, key drivers and actionable insights.
• Prepare clear commentary on movements, risks, and opportunities for finance and other stakeholders.
• Opportunities to build AI supported tools to surface anomalies/outliers and suggest driver hypotheses, standardise commentary structure to improve consistency.

Time reporting & cost allocation support

• Coordinate the time reporting process: collect inputs from multiple departments, validate completeness/accuracy and consolidate results.
• Prepare time-reporting outputs that feed cost allocation processes, ensuring deadlines and data quality are met.
• Opportunities to automate routine data checks and create exception-based follow-ups, develop automated reconciliations and variance flags to highlight allocation-impacting changes, with documented review steps.

Forecasting & planning 

• Support and continuously update the operating expenses forecast (e.g., data costs, infrastructure costs, legal and professional costs, etc.)
• Maintain assumptions, phasing, and cost drivers; coordinate inputs with budget owners.
• Create structured assumption logs to summarise changes, risks, and open items from stakeholder updates/emails/notes.

What You Will Need:

Required

• 2-3 years of experience in finance (FP&A, commercial finance, accounting, audit) with strong analytical work.
• Strong Excel skills (e.g. PowerQuery, complex formula); highly analytical and comfortable working with large datasets and tight deadlines.
• Understanding of forecasting, variance analysis, and basic cost concepts (accruals, allocations).
• Strong attention to detail and clear communication; able to work cross-functionally and “chase” inputs constructively.

Nice to have

• BI/reporting exposure (Power BI/Tableau) and automation mindset.
• SQL and/or Python experience (or strong curiosity and evidence of learning).

What We Can Offer You:

• 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.

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Employee Relations (ER) Specialist in our London office. Operating within our global People function, you will be the go-to ER subject-matter expert, supporting our teams across APAC, Europe, and the US. As a leading proprietary trading firm, we operate in a highly regulated environment and you will play a critical role in ensuring our People practices meet all compliance and ethical standards while fostering a positive working culture worldwide.

Core Responsibilities:

• Casework Management: Manage a varied and high-risk employee relations caseload across all regions, including disciplinaries, grievances, appeals, investigations, performance and capability concerns, with professionalism and cultural sensitivity, taking ownership of sensitive and complex matters as they arise.
• Change Management: Advise on and support the implementation of business-critical organisational change (including redundancies and international transfers), ensuring regional compliance.
• Manager Training: Develop and deliver targeted training for managers in APAC, Europe, and the US, building ER capability and confidence to address best practices and employee matters locally and globally.
• Policy Development: Draft, harmonise and implement robust HR and ER policies reflecting the latest UK, APAC, and US employment law, best practice and the regulatory standards that apply to trading environments.
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively ensure people-related actions are fully aligned with relevant employment law and internal requirements, supporting our regulatory obligations at all times.
• Expert Advice: Act as a trusted partner for leaders and managers, providing practical, timely, and legally sound guidance on employee matters that reflect the fast-paced, regulated nature of the trading industry.
• Employment Contract Project Management: Lead and manage complex employment contract projects, taking ownership of initiatives that require navigating multi-region requirements. Ensure all contract terms, including restrictive covenants, are compliant, commercially sound, and aligned with diverse jurisdictional and regulatory standards. Provide expert advice on the drafting and enforcement of non-compete, non-solicitation, and confidentiality clauses across multiple geographies.
• Conflict Resolution: Mediate disputes and lead fair, impartial investigations into complaints, ensuring an ethical and compliant approach throughout.
• Regulatory Liaison: Partner with Compliance, Legal and Risk teams as needed to ensure regulatory integrity in ER and people processes.
• Data Analysis: Monitor ER metrics (e.g., turnover, absences, trends) globally, identify themes, and present actionable recommendations for ongoing improvement.
• In addition to core Employee Relations responsibilities, the role may also contribute to broader HR initiatives and generalist activities where appropriate, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities.

Key Requirements:

• Qualifications: CIPD Level 5 (minimum) or Level 7 (preferred).
• Experience: Demonstrated track record managing complex ER caseloads in a regulated, fast-paced, international environment. Experience within financial services or trading environments is highly advantageous.
• Legal Knowledge: Strong knowledge of UK Employment Law required; awareness of APAC and US frameworks preferred.
• Compliance Focus: Deep understanding of the importance of regulatory compliance and its impact on HR policies and processes.
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with a global mindset and sensitivity to different cultures.
• Emotional Intelligence: High resilience and discretion in handling confidential and sensitive situations.
• Coaching Capability: Skilled at upskilling and empowering managers to navigate ER issues and conduct people processes confidently and compliantly. Experience in HR Business Partnering is advantageous.
• Collaboration: A key element of this role will be working with the legal function, ensuring a close-knit, excellent communication line and working relationship to ensure the business is best served at all times

This is a unique opportunity to shape global ER strategy and standards within a forward-thinking proprietary trading firm, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer. 

What we offer:

• A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

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 Facilities & Workplace Services Coordinator supports the smooth, safe, and efficient operation of the workplace. This role focuses on facilities management, vendor coordination, health and safety compliance, workplace administration, and employee support services. The coordinator works closely with internal teams, building management, and external suppliers to ensure the office environment is well-maintained and fully operational.

Role Responsibilities:

Workplace Operations

• Monitor the Workplace Services (WPS) inbox, responding to queries and coordinating requests.
• Conduct daily checks across office floors to ensure systems, equipment, and spaces are functioning correctly.
• Communicate with HR, IT, and other teams regarding office issues or maintenance needs.
• Organise and audit critical spare parts, keeping stockrooms tidy and accessible.
• Send new starter communications and provide WPS introductions and office information.
• Support onboarding and offboarding by allocating desks and lockers, coordinating with Front of House.
• Conduct desk and space audits, identifying faults and ensuring allocations remain accurate.
• Submit weekly catering numbers and assist with workplace service arrangements.
• Represent WPS at relevant committee meetings.
• Support workplace events such as summer and Christmas parties.

Facilities Management

• Identify, log, and report faults or maintenance issues to contractors or building management.
• Respond promptly to reactive tickets and requests (temperature, lighting, power, office faults).
• Coordinate planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedules and contractor site visits.
• Liaise with third‑party suppliers and building management to arrange service access.
• Ensure contractor documentation and Permits to Work are submitted and logged.
• Review contractor job reports and follow up on repairs or parts ordering.
• Support contract management, including renewals and documentation.
• Run monthly security access reports and work with HR to review user access and attendance.
• Log contractor attendance and service records for all site visits.
• Support weekend works, powerdowns, and essential out‑of‑hours activities.
• Prepare workplace spaces for powerdowns, desk moves, and operational changes.
• Assist with workspace reconfiguration and desk move projects.
• Attend key PPM visits to ensure compliance and alignment with internal teams.

Health & Safety

• Conduct regular floor inspections and monitor first aid supplies.
• Assist with risk assessments and general safety compliance.
• Manage communications related to emergency fire evacuations.
• Attend quarterly tenancy meetings with building management.

Administration & Financial Processes

• Track and process supplier invoices, receipts, and administrative documentation.
• Work with Finance to manage team credit card expenses and ensure timely receipt submission.
• Raise and amend purchase orders and maintain the WPS PO log.
• Support contract administration and renewal tracking.
• Provide reception cover during breaks and annual leave, including greeting visitors and supporting meeting room needs.
• Assist with meeting room setups and event coordination.

What You Need:

• Strong Excel skills (intermediate to advanced).
• Comfortable using AI tools to streamline reporting, documentation, and operational workflows.
• 2–3 years’ experience in facilities, workplace operations, or building services.
• Understanding of Building Management Systems (BMS) and workplace systems.
• Mechanical or engineering aptitude, with the ability to troubleshoot basic M&E issues.
• Knowledge of health and safety compliance, including risk assessments and fire safety.
• Experience coordinating contractors, PPM schedules, cleaning and catering staff and vendor relationships.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Clear communication skills and confidence working with internal teams, contractors, and building management.
• Proactive, solutions‑focused approach with an interest in improving processes and operational efficiency.
• Utilising AI for task automation and to improve general efficiency
• Relevant certifications (advantageous but not always required):
• IOSH or NEBOSH
• First Aid or Fire Marshal
• BMS or building services training
• Understanding of building operations — lifts, HVAC, electrical systems, fire panels, and access control.

What We Offer:

• A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

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.

Role Overview

About the Role: 
We are seeking a highly skilled Compliance Manager (Regulatory Reporting) to join our London office. Reporting to the Head of European Compliance, you will play a senior leadership role in delivering accurate, timely, and compliant regulatory reporting across regimes such as MiFID II / MiFIR (typically via Approved Reporting Mechanisms), EMIR, CAT, short/long transparency, and related rules for UK and EU investment firms. You will drive reporting process integrity, controls, reconciliation, and exception handling, and will work closely with technology teams to support automation of reporting and MI production. You will act as a key subject matter expert, with the flexibility for the scope of the role to evolve as regulations and business needs change. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• MiFID II / MiFIR Transaction Reporting: 
  Oversee and ensure high-quality MiFID II / MiFIR transaction reporting for all in-scope UK and EU investment firms (typically via Approved Reporting Mechanisms [ARMs]) in accordance with Directive 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) 600/2014. Ensure data integrity, manage reconciliations, remediation, and error resolution. 

• EMIR Reporting: 
  Lead all aspects of trade and position reporting as required by EMIR (Regulation (EU) No 648/2012) and UK EMIR, including prompt reconciliations, exception handling, and ensuring reporting compliance via trade repositories. 

• Prudential Reporting: 
  Manage regulatory capital, liquidity, and other prudential returns for UK and EU investment firms under the IFPR, IFR/IFD, and similar regimes, ensuring timely and accurate submission of periodic returns and supporting documentation. 

• CAT Reporting (US): 
  Ensure accurate reporting under the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regime (SEC Rule 613), including specialist data requirements, reconciliation, exception management, and cross-firm collaboration for US trading activity as applicable. 

• Short/Long Reporting and Transparency (SSR): 
  Fulfil obligations for short and long position reporting and notification under the EU Short Selling Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 236/2012/UK SSR), FCA rules, and other relevant regimes, including position flagging, monitoring of thresholds, and preparation of disclosures. 

• Governance of Reporting Attributes (e.g., Algo Flags, Tag 50s, Other Markers): 
  Take ownership for ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and regulatory compliance of transaction and order-level attributes required for reporting (such as algo flags, Tag 50s, and other industry-standard identifiers). Establish and maintain effective governance and validation processes, perform regular reviews and audits, and work with internal and external stakeholders to resolve data quality or reporting issues. 

• Reporting Controls, Reconciliation, and Review: 
  Own end-to-end reconciliation and exception management for all core transaction and position reporting. Routinely perform data integrity reviews and support internal or external audit activity for ongoing compliance. 

• Automation, Technology Liaison & MI Production: 
  Collaborate effectively with technology teams to identify requirements and support the delivery of automated solutions for regulatory reporting and reconciliation. Drive the production of high-quality management information (MI), supporting senior management, compliance, and regulatory needs. 

• Broader Reporting Scope & Change: 
  Support, as required, reporting under additional regimes (such as commodity position limits, Dodd-Frank, SEC 13F/13H, etc.), participate in regulatory change projects, and keep abreast of and prepare for evolving regulatory requirements and new reporting obligations. 

• Stakeholder Engagement: 
  Act as SME for key reporting regimes; provide advice and training across the business; support senior leadership, audit, and regulatory inquiries as required. 

Skills and Experience: 

Essential: 

• At least 5+ years’ regulatory reporting experience for investment firms or asset managers, with detailed expertise in at least one area such as MiFID II / MiFIR, EMIR, CAT or short/long transparency. 
• Strong working knowledge of multiple regulatory regimes listed above, and proven ability to develop expertise in new reporting regimes as they arise. 
• Advanced experience in the governance, review, and validation of regulatory transaction and order attributes (e.g., algo flags, Tag 50s, other identifiers). 
• Advanced knowledge of transaction and trade reporting operations, exception management, reconciliations, and troubleshooting. 
• Experience with reporting reconciliation, periodic/ad hoc review, and audit support. 
• Ability to produce high-quality management information (MI) for compliance, management, and regulatory purposes. 
• Advanced Excel/data analysis skills and use of data to support both reporting and MI. 
• Technical/programming skills (Python/SQL) for data analysis (not for reporting automation). 
• Strong track record of collaborating with technology teams to deliver and support automated reporting and MI solutions. 
• Excellent attention to detail, critical thinking, and communication skills—comfortable with technical, management, and regulatory stakeholders. 

Desirable/Nice-to-Have: 

• Experience with additional regimes/standards (e.g., Dodd-Frank, SEC 13F/13H, commodity position limits). 
• Experience with prudential reporting standards (e.g., COREP/FINREP), and with regulatory reporting vendors/platforms such as UnaVista, DTCC, MarketAxess. 
• Experience supporting regulatory change/business transformation projects. 
• Utilising AI in information gathering, providing advice, task automation and to improve general efficiency

What We Offer:

• A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

Quant Dev - Systematic Equities Trading

What we do:

Maven’s Systematic Equities team deploys research-driven strategies across global equity markets, powered by some of the most advanced technology available. Our approach to trading is scientific and process-driven, with a strong emphasis on a flexible research environment, providing us with efficient means to rapidly develop, test, and deploy new ideas. We empower our team members and maximise their ability to succeed by offering an environment that is open, collaborative, and supportive. We value creativity and are aggressive to capitalise on opportunities.

The role:

We are looking for an experienced Python Engineer (Platform / ML) to join the mid-frequency-equities desk and help build, maintain, and support all aspects of the trading platform. The role is hands-on and production-facing: you will be expected to react quickly to urgent desk needs, while making pragmatic trade-offs between optimal architecture and fast, reliable delivery.

• Data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Orchestration of all processes involved in the trading platform
• Trading and research platform development and support
• ML model training and inference infrastructure
• Production support for live trading systems
• Monitoring and alerting improvements
• AI tooling integration

Requirements:

• Excellent Python skills, with significant experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying complex and robust production systems
• Familiarity with Linux systems; comfortable debugging distributed/production issues
• Understanding of algorithm design and complexity
• Ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment whilst keeping longer-term objectives in mind
• Strong ownership mindset: incident handling, end-to-end problem solving, and pragmatic decision making under time pressure
• An interest in trading and finance; experience with systematic trading platforms/frameworks (incl. stat-arb environments) is a strong plus

Ideal experience would include:

• Engineering systems for live trading platforms or similarly demanding real-time environments
• Airflow, Argo, Dagster or equivalent
• Observability/monitoring stacks, dashboards and alert design
• ML infra, high-performance and GPU computing, MLOps 
• Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD

Why you should apply:

• A flexible environment where technology is an absolute key to our success
• Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape every aspect of how we operate
• Friendly, informal and collaborative environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions, learn and develop
• Competitive compensation with substantial impact-based upside

We are a small and nimble team that makes extensive use of CI/CD, AI tooling, and peer code review to ensure quality and maintainability while keeping time-to-market short. You will be able to see the impact of your work immediately and will be in a unique position to directly contribute to trading revenue. 

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.

We are looking for Compliance Analyst to join our London based Compliance team.

As a Compliance Analyst, you will contribute to the effective operation of the firm according to its regulatory and internal policy requirements as they apply across the diverse range of trading activities carried out. You will also add value supporting this firm in achieving its forward-looking growth and development plans. In doing so, you will gain exposure to key aspects of compliance, supporting electronic options market making and multi-strategy trading (encompassing proprietary equity and bond strategies such as event trading and equity capital markets), regulatory monitoring, prudential compliance, policy implementation, and employee trading oversight.

The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced proprietary trading environment. As Maven continues to develop and to expand its business activities the complexity of the regulatory and exchange landscape, within which we operate, increases in parallel. Our aim is to ensure Compliance provides market leading support for the firm and, in doing so, ensures its safe, effective and sustainable growth and development.

Comprehensive training will be provided to ensure your success and ongoing development in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Policies, Procedures, and Training Materials

• Support the review and update of compliance policies and procedures and assist with the drafting and maintenance of training materials and employee guidance.

Internal Reporting

• Support the compilation and coordination of internal compliance reports, including quarterly compliance reports and other periodic disclosures.

Wall-crossing & Restricted List Management

• Ensure the safe and effective operation of Maven’s wall-crossing processes and assist with maintaining restricted lists and watch lists. Work directly with our trading business units to support the implementation of effective information barriers.

Operational Compliance

• Support Maven’s extensive operational compliance framework, contributing to processes such as those related to personal account dealing. Escalate potential compliance issues and contribute to documentation and reporting.

Prudential Monitoring

• Assist the ongoing monitoring of the firm’s prudential obligations and support reporting in accordance with relevant regulatory frameworks.

Regulatory Reporting

• Assist in the preparation and validation of regulatory filings required under UK, EU, US, and other relevant regimes; work with the team to ensure timely and accurate submissions.

External Document Requests & Regulatory Enquiries

• Assist with responding to requests from regulators and counterparties, including regulatory questionnaires and due diligence enquiries.

Training & Attestation Administration

• Coordinate the tracking and completion of mandatory compliance training and attestations across the firm.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 - 3 years’ experience in a relevant legal or compliance role is required.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks according to tight deadlines.
• Effective communication skills and a collaborative approach.
• Eagerness to learn - full training on compliance procedures will be provided.

Desirable Skills

• Technical: Excel, SQL, Python
• AI: Utilising AI in information gathering, providing advice, task automation and to improve general efficiency

What We Offer:

• A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

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.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Advanced Analytics Infrastructure: Engineer scalable Python-based libraries and tools that standardize performance metrics across the group. create automated workflows that convert raw trading data into high-value insights for Portfolio Managers and the Investment Committee.
• Conduct Quantitative Strategy Research: Perform rigorous statistical analysis on trade and portfolio-level data to decompose PnL drivers. Identify alpha decay, parameter inefficiencies, and execution drag to deliver actionable research that directly improves performance.
• Improve Returns on Existing Strategies: Analyze performance on a trade and strategy level to identify inefficiencies of optimisation areas. Deliver recommendations backed by data and maintain follow through. 
• Highlight Trading Risks & Opportunities: monitor portfolio exposures, performance trends, and market signals to highlight emerging risks and identify underutilized or mispriced opportunities across various strategies.
• Support Strategy Development: support the PM onboarding process, and business development initiatives into new product groups and strategies. 

Candidate Specifications:

• At least 2–5 years of experience specifically within a Hedge Fund, Proprietary Trading Firm, or Quantitative Asset Manager.
• Strong proficiency in Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy) for data analysis and simulation; SQL knowledge is essential.
• Deep understanding of the trade lifecycle and buy-side strategies (e.g., Relative Value, Stat Arb, Volatility).
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to demonstrate wider interest in financial markets
• Outstanding numerical skills
• 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

What We Offer:

• A great environment whereby technology is key to our success
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

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: 

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.

You will work alongside traders, quant researchers and other developers to help us design and build reliable, timely and accurate data and analytics to our trading and research teams. Our data pipelines handle terabytes of exchange traffic, performing numerous transformations in real-time. We perform analysis ranging from nanosecond-level investigations on low-latency trading systems to research on pricing algorithms and trading strategies.

The Skills you will have 

• Excellent Python skills, with significant experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying complex and robust production systems
• Solid experience with SQL and modern database technologies
• Very strong business communication skills and the ability to present information clearly and concisely
• Enthusiasm to rapidly learn new technologies and skills
• An efficient and diligent approach with a strong attention to detail
• The ability to solve new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively
• An interest in trading and finance

IDEAL EXPERIENCE WOULD INCLUDE

• Handling large data sets and time series data
• Data engineering best practices for both batch and streaming data pipelines
• Knowledge of data serialisation formats, messaging middleware, data lakehouse technologies etc
• Containerisation and orchestration techniques (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Modern C++ programming
• Front end development with React and Typescript
• Knowledge of financial markets & securities, especially equities and options

We pride ourselves on being able to rapidly deliver well-engineered software into production. You will be able to see the impact of your work immediately and will be in a unique position to have a direct impact on trading revenue. We make extensive use of automated testing and peer code review to ensure quality and maintainability while keeping time-to-market short.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• Competitive compensation 
• Group Pension plan 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks. 
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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.

Maven has a culture that is relaxed and informal but highly rewarding of strong performance; We have offices in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago. Our Infrastructure team is a set of broad-minded technologists, who focus on continuously improving the end-to-end resiliency, scalability, visibility and supportability of Maven's trading systems. 

The Team and the Role

The Linux Engineering team is responsible for the deployment, maintenance and stability of the Linux server estate at Maven. The Linux estate spans 10 datacentres between Europe and the US and supports  all trading applications. Our environment consists of both bare-metal deployments and containers supported in an expanding set of Kubernetes clusters all running on prem. The team sits in Chicago and London and covers the European and US market hours. 

We proactively monitor our infrastructure for faults and performance degradation, translate technical issues to our trading teams, design and test new hardware, kernels and operating systems, manage our centralised storage arrays that support our data pipelines, build and maintain databases and keep on top of updates in the Linux open source community. We use a lot of common open-source tooling to gather as much data from our platform as we can and we give ourselves time to properly dive into problems to make sure we have as clear a picture as possible. 

What are we looking for:

• Proven track record designing, building and supporting medium-sized Linux environments distributed around the globe with colleagues distributed geographically (RHEL and Debian)
• A drive for simplification, automation and self-service (ideally using python and ansible)
• Comfortable discussing filesystems, networking, kernel internals
• A desire to share and demonstrate work, techniques and tools to a broad audience
• Exposure to containerisation/virtualisation techniques 
• Experience of running and supporting large distributed data storage platforms would be a bonus. Knowledge of NFS, S3, iscsi, TCP over NVME etc
• Pragmatism - experience communicating and coordinating change across physically and technically diverse teams
• Measures rather than guesses - makes evidence backed decision and prefers the scientific method

What we can offer you:

• Competitive compensation 
• Group Pension plan 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks. 
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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.

OVERVIEW

As a global firm with trading strategies that operate worldwide, we want to create and maintain a globally consistent platform, removing as much work as possible from our trading and development teams when building, developing and running their applications. We are looking for an experienced technical operations specialist, DevOps engineer, or Platform Engineer to join a small existing team and help shape this vision.

The individual will have operational responsibility for several production trading and research environments and will need to understand how our systems work throughout the trading lifecycle, from the front to the back office. The role will require close collaboration with traders, developers, quant researchers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure our production systems are well-understood and properly configured. The individual will also be expected to advocate for operational efficiency and continuous improvement across all deployment aspects, as well as troubleshooting, monitoring, automation, and resiliency.

We are just at the beginning of an exciting transformation project to consolidate and standardise how we run and research our applications inside Maven, and the individual will have the opportunity to shape the future of this platform

The role is based in London, but the team will be globally distributed. Communication skills, a pragmatic approach to problem-solving under time pressure, and a positive mindset are essential for success in this role. Candidates will likely have at least 2+ years of experience in a similar position. In particular, we are looking for:

• a highly motivated individual with creative problem-solving skills;
• a self-starter attitude and proactive problem ownership mindset;
• Ability to prioritise effectively whilst keeping longer-term objectives in mind;

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact within Maven to help define and shape a role that uniquely interfaces with all other functions within the firm.

MUST HAVE 

• Building systems with a constant focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Designing and programming in a variety of languages and technologies. 
• Working on legacy code as well as green field development.
• Initiative driving projects to completion.
• Learning and promoting new technologies with a focus on best practices.
• Experience building and automating various operations tasks using scripting languages such as Python, including configuration checks, system health monitoring, alerting, reliability report generation, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to steep learning curves and navigate large volumes of information

NICE TO HAVE 

• Multiple years of server-side development.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Kafka, Prometheus, and other modern deployment tooling
• Experience working closely with both traders and automated strategies in a similar front-office environment to identify and implement operational improvements
• Knowledge of standard IT and software engineering tooling such as git, jira, TeamCity, confluence, ansible, etc.
• Familiarity with SQL, HTTP messaging, and network protocols
• Experience managing operational risk in a trading environment

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

• An excellent engineering environment where technology is key to our success
• Flexible work-from-home options 1 day a week
• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Working with a team of high-performing individuals, we all push each other forward
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

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.

Overview:

Where technology meets trading, the Maven FPGA team is pushing the bleeding edge of hardware and proprietary designs to maintain and gain advantage in an increasingly competitive environment. With operations in London, New York, Hong Kong and Chicago, we build technology in support of global trading operations across multiple exchanges, asset classes, and trading strategies. Our teams are small and nimble, with a firm commitment to growth, and a strategic view of investment in people, tools, and the necessary platforms to extend our leadership.

The Role:

Within our team, you will work with traders and technologists to seek and exploit opportunities to gain competitive advantage through FPGA systems. By means of reduced latencies, higher throughput, or increased robustness, you will enable the company to increase the efficiency of existing strategies and open up entirely new trading opportunities previously inaccessible. With a number of greenfield projects in scope, candidates who are proactive and self-driven can grow into leadership roles for the firm’s future. Whilst financial experience is a plus, your engineering talents, problem solving abilities, and eagerness to take on new challenges are of significantly higher importance to us.

The skills you will have:

• SystemVerilog
• Source control management
• 5+ years FPGA experience
• Automated verification
• HLS or other DSP flow experience for FPGA
• Comfortable attacking new and unfamiliar problems
• Interest in trading

Things we would like to see but are not essential:

• Python, TCL
• Low latency design
• ASIC
• Network and packet processing
• Financial market data
• Trading systems
• Software development

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive compensation 
• Group Pension plan 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks. 
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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.

Working on our trading floor, you will work alongside traders, quant researchers and other developers to help us expand system connectivity to new markets, optimise order execution algorithms, improve our trading strategies and build new automated pricing systems and infrastructure to support the expansion of our options market making business. The work you do will have a direct, regular and highly visible impact on the firm's success.

The skills you will have:

• Excellent C++ (11/14/17/20/23)
• Template programming
• Ultra low latency design
• Performance tuning and analysis
• Good numerical skills
• The ability to solve new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively
• An efficient and diligent approach with a strong attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An Interest in trading and finance

Things we would like to see but are not essential:

• Knowledge of financial markets & securities (particularly futures and options)
• Experience in the other programming languages: Python, C# or JavaScript
• Experience with NoSQL and time-series databases
• Knowledge of multiple derivative exchange platforms
• Network communication protocols UDP and TCP
• Network acceleration using proprietary drivers and kernel bypass
• Understanding of and optimisation for modern Intel architecture

If you don’t meet every requirement listed, we still encourage you to apply. We value potential and are excited to see what you can bring to the role.

What you will be doing with us:

• Full lifecycle of software development for market making, working alongside traders and developers in other teams, such as FPGA, data analytics and UI developers
• Developing low latency exchange connectivity components for new markets

We pride ourselves on being able to rapidly deliver well-engineered software into production. You will be able to see the impact of your work immediately and will be in a unique position to have a direct impact on trading revenue. We make extensive use of automated testing and peer code review to ensure quality and maintainability while keeping time-to-market short.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• Competitive compensation 
• Group Pension plan 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

Maven is a proprietary trading organisation formed in 2011, that has offices in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Sydney

Maven’s proprietary trading group, Maven Investment Partners, employs a multi-strategy investment approach by deploying capital to a wide range of investment and trading strategies, managed by a global team of over thirty specialist portfolio managers and analysts

Maven differentiates itself from other market participants in several ways; we are exclusively managing our own capital, as the firm is entirely employee owned; we have delivered an exceptional return on equity since inception; we maintain an entrepreneurial culture and can be flexible to the requirements of different styles of investing and trading; we value non-traditional strategies as well those more commonly seen in the market; and we encourage our investment team to work in a highly collegiate way by sharing information, finding synergies and ultimately maximising opportunities

We have a central infrastructure platform that enables our investment team to trade independently yet operate within a centrally driven risk-management and operational framework, and we have invested heavily in proprietary technology across all business areas

Our mission is to maintain our position as a market-leading investment house comprising of the best portfolio managers and traders in the market

Role specification: 

Maven is looking for an outstanding Portfolio Manager to join its UK based investment team

The mandate of the candidate will be to construct a long-short portfolio of European SMID cap equities

The candidate will be an expert in selecting companies that trade at a significant discount to fundamental value and/or identifies opportunities which have a clear catalyst to unlock superior shareholder value

The candidate will demonstrate excellent risk management both in terms of how the portfolio is constructed and how these are insulted from broader market moves

We are seeking candidates who demonstrate original idea generation that incorporates a deep fundamental understanding of the companies they cover, an awareness of industry and market dynamics that may impact valuation, a process for actively engaging with management teams, and an ability to form their own views in the presence of information that is being presented by corporates, sell-side analysts and other market sources

The candidate will be responsible for all investment decisions, the construction of the full portfolio and the overall risk management of every line within the trading book

Candidate Specifications

• 5+ years as a Portfolio Manager, or 10+ years as an Investment Analyst / Assistant PM
• Proven track record that can be shared and verified
• A clearly defined, robust and repeatable investment process
• Strong research acumen
• Ability to construct a market-neutral portfolio and effectively manage volatility
• A high-level of attention-to-detail
• Perform well in high pressure situations
• Be able and willing to integrate into the broader team of Portfolio Managers

We are seeking a portfolio manager with a deep understanding of a particular inefficiency they attempt to capture. They will have been heavily involved in the research of the strategy as well as its implementation, and are able to develop new strategies from idea to implementation.

In addition, the PM will have a solid understanding of the dynamics of markets, and use these dynamics to display a qualitative appreciation of when their strategy performs well and poorly.

Offices in both London and Monaco.

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience as a PM, or 4-5 years as an assistant PM;
• Realised Sharpe >2.5;
• Display track record of strategy;
• Deep understanding of strategy;
• Strong coding skills;
• Strong researching skills;
• Masters or PHD in scientific subject.

#LI-Onsite

Maven’s Systematic Alpha group is looking for outstanding portfolio managers to join its global expansion. The team deploys methodically researched strategies across futures, options and equities. Our approach to trading is scientific and process driven, with a strong emphasis on a flexible research environment, providing us efficient means to develop, test, and deploy new ideas. 

The Role: 

An excellent opportunity to research, develop and implement systematic strategies in listed instruments such as futures or FX. Full ownership of the life-cycle of trade/strategy ideas; monitor and manage portfolio risk to optimise risk/reward profile. We also encourage an environment of collaboration with our Quant PMs. 

What we’re looking for: 

The successful candidates will demonstrate a deep understanding of the particular systematic inefficiency they attempt to capture. They'd have been heavily involved in the research of the strategy as well as its implementation, and are able to develop new strategies from idea to implementation.

• 3+ years experience as a PM, or 4-5 years as an assistant PM;
• Realised Sharpe >2.5;
• Display track record of strategy;
• Deep understanding of strategy;
• Strong coding skills;
• Strong researching skills;
• Masters or PHD in scientific subject;
• Experience working with large time series data;
• Excellent programming skills with experience in Python or Julia

Why you should apply: 

• Join a highly rewarding, collaborative and highly successful trading firm
• A flexible research environment to develop, test, and deploy new ideas
• A great engineering environment whereby technology is key to our success
• A environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions  
• Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture

What we do:

Maven’s Systematic Alpha team deploys methodically researched strategies across futures, options and equities, utilising  some of the most advanced technology available . Our approach to trading is scientific and process driven, with a strong emphasis on a flexible research environment, providing us efficient means to develop, test, and deploy new ideas. We empower our team members and maximise their ability to succeed by offering an environment that is open, collaborative and supportive. We value creativity and are aggressive to capitalise on opportunities. We take proven strategies to the next level by integrating them across diverse alphas and time horizons using cutting-edge execution technology.

The Role:

Work collaboratively with other researchers to design new strategies and trading signals. Participate in risk management discussions, have responsibilities in trading operations. Have exposure to the entire investment pipeline.

What we're looking for:

• Background: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics or Engineering.
• PhD or Master degree in a high rank university.
• Required Mathematical skills: Advanced linear algebra, optimisation theory, statistics (time series and high-dimensional) and machine learning knowledge, signal processing.
• Required programming skills: good knowledge of modern Python and its numerical, stats and machine learning packages; multiple years of practice. Skills in other programming languages are also appreciated. Familiarity with Linux systems, various databases, understanding of algorithm design and complexity.
• Research: minimum 5 years of experience in alpha research (including data exploration and feature engineering), portfolio construction and/or execution. Understanding of extraday and intraday particularities. Main focus is on equities, knowledge and practice of ETFs, futures, FX or option trading is considered too.

Why you should apply: 

• A flexible research environment whereby technology is key to our success
• Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape our trading
• A collaborative environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions 
• The upside of start-up without any of the associated risks
• Great, friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture