Options Market Maker

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

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
• Able to take a high level of responsibility in an expanding, highly successful firm
• Excellent attention to detail
• Fast problem solving skills
• Embody Maven’s core values: Integrity and fairness, market leading, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability
• Programming skills (desirable)