Optiver is looking for an experienced Marketing Manager to join our Brand & Marketing team. This role leads marketing initiatives for priority audiences in the US while contributing to global content efforts.

You’ll operate independently, bring structure to complex work, and collaborate closely with recruiters, business stakeholders and marketers across regions to deliver high-quality, tailored marketing solutions. You’ll play a key role in scaling content and ensuring it reaches the right audiences effectively. 

This role is based on-site in our Chicago office. 

What you’ll do 

As a marketing manager, your key responsibilities include: 

• Lead initiatives for priority audiences in the US, including developing marketing plans tailored to specific markets, audiences, or hiring needs
• Work closely with recruiters and business stakeholders to understand objectives, shape the right approach, and deliver effective solutions
• Adapt and translate content across channels and formats, including digital and events
• Own the planning and execution of content and social media activations, ensuring consistent, high-quality output across channels
• Manage and scale content production by partnering with internal stakeholders and external freelancers to deliver blogs, social posts, and thought leadership
• Define measures of success for organic social and content initiatives, track performance, and use insights to continuously improve results

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets. 

In addition, you’ll receive: 

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries 
• Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure 
• 401(k) match up to 50% 
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage 
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays 
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more 

Who you are 

• 5+ years of experience leading marketing or digital initiatives end to end, from planning through execution
• Comfortable engaging stakeholders and tailoring solutions to different needs, including working with external freelancers and agencies
• Strong experience with organic social media, including content planning and performance analysis 
• Experience delivering work across channels, with an understanding of channel-specific best practices and how to adapt content accordingly
• Exposure to conferences or events, with experience supporting content, campaigns, or on-site activation
• Highly organized, with strong prioritization and project management skills
• Clear and effective written and verbal communicator  
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

We’re looking for a Performance & Growth Lead to define how our marketing efforts translate into measurable impact. This is not a hands-on execution role. You will define and lead performance strategies within the broader marketing direction, guide execution, and ensure we continuously improve outcomes across regions and channels, strengthening how marketing contributes to broader business outcomes and attracts and converts high-quality talent. We’re investing in how we show up to the world, to do that effectively; we need to be sharper in how we translate strategy into measurable impact. This role is central to making that happen.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

Define performance strategy 

• Translate business and hiring priorities into a clear multi-channel growth approach 
• Define how channels contribute across the funnel (awareness → conversion)
• Define channel roles, investment logic, and optimisation frameworks
• Bring structure to how paid and organic efforts work together 

Own performance outcomes 

• Define and own global performance KPIs, with accountability for both volume and quality of results 
• Turn performance data into clear decisions and priorities, identifying and scaling opportunities for improvement across channels and regions 

Own execution quality (via teams and partners) 

• Set direction for investment, campaign approach, and optimisation, ensuring high-quality execution across paid channels  
• Raise capability and consistency across teams through clear standards, frameworks, and best practices 

Lead agencies

• Set direction for media and performance partners, challenging plans and holding agencies accountable for results 

Define measurement direction (with you) 

• Ensure performance is measured against meaningful business outcomes, partnering on tracking, dashboards, and data quality.
• Leverage performance insights to inform content, campaigns, and website optimisation

Drive consistency across regions

• Establish performance principles and guardrails, raising the standard of performance marketing across teams and regions

WHO YOU ARE

• 8 - 12 years in performance marketing, growth or demand generation 
• Strong experience across paid channels, with a strategic, not execution-only lens
• Proven track record of owning performance outcomes
• Experience leading agencies and driving execution through others
• Strong analytical thinking, you turn data into decisions, not just reports, with a solid understanding of measurement, tracking, attribution, and their inherent limitations
• Experience working across multiple markets or stakeholder groups
• You’re comfortable in environments where not everything is fully defined yet and you know how to bring structure without slowing things down.
• You are accountable for how campaigns are structured, optimised, and improved, and you stay close enough to the work to ensure quality
• You bring a commercial and marketing lens beyond martech or analytics infrastructure
• You actively lead and challenge agencies instead of managing them passive 

WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.