Senior Equity Analyst

About the role

You’ll sit directly on the trading desk, influencing real-time decisions and shaping positions with direct P&L impact. This is not a traditional equity research role – your work will be used in live trading environments where speed, adaptability, and commercial judgement are critical.

Responsibilities

• Leverage fundamental, event-driven, and short-term catalysts to create an orthogonal trading revenue stream expressed via the analyst book identify and evaluate trading opportunities
• Partner with traders to help optimize analyst and market making positions, directly owning risk in both the analyst and market making books
• Support market making desk with general insights that improve day-to-day trading decisions
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses for upcoming events and corporate developments, assessing their potential impact on both equity and volatility
• Translate research insights into actionable strategies across equities and options
• Contribute to process improvements and knowledge sharing across the analyst team, refining how fundamental insights are monetized in a market-making context
• Mentor junior analysts and support the continued growth of the equity research function

Requirements

We are open to candidates from any sector background, but you should be comfortable applying your framework across new names and situations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an equity analyst, within a market-making environment, proprietary trading firm, or event-driven / trading-oriented hedge fund
• Proven track record of owning sector coverage and generating differentiated, actionable insights
• Strong understanding of how fundamentals translate into short-term price moves and volatility
• Experience working closely with trading desks or in fast-feedback, P&L-driven environments
• Comfortable applying your research process across sectors, with the ability to quickly build conviction on new names
• Familiarity with options and volatility dynamics, or a strong interest in developing this expertise
• Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills; thrives in fast-moving, information-rich environments
• Clear communicator who proactively shares views and collaborates effectively with traders and researchers
• Passionate about the markets, adaptable, and driven by impact and continuous learning
• Comfortable working with large data sets and building scalable, repeatable processes

Skills

The ideal candidate will have:

• Market-making experience
• Event-driven analysis
• Short-term trading strategy development
• Understanding of options and volatility
• Collaborative communication skills
• Adaptability and continuous learning mindset

Benefits

Competitive compensation package, highly competitive 401(k) match up to 50%, comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage, 25 paid vacation days, extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more.

Pay

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Schedule

Full-time position

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.