Campus Recruiter

Optiver’s biggest asset are our people. They’re the individuals solving the most challenging problems that drive our business forward. The Campus Recruitment team is instrumental to getting the best and brightest individuals into the firm. As a Campus Recruiter, you will be responsible for hiring into our Internship and Graduate programs, as well as attracting top talent to our early engagement initiatives. Have an innovative idea? You will have both the freedom and resources to make it happen – we believe in autonomy, ownership and providing a platform for everyone to make an impact. We know our best work is done together, so you’ll collaborate with other Campus Recruiters across the globe.

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. 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.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

What You’ll Do:
Our Recruitment team is made up of specialists who work across our three key departments: Trading, Research, and Technology. This recruiter will be aligned with the Research team. The core focus of our Campus Recruiters is to identify, attract, and secure top talent from our target markets for early careers programs and opportunities. To help us achieve our goals, your responsibilities will include:

• Attracting, assessing and closing candidates in our highest priority Research pipelines.
• End-to-end ownership of Hiring Manager relationships for support roles across the campus team.
• Designing, executing and evaluating prospecting efforts that build and retain early talent pipelines.
• Traveling 4-5x annually to support execution of student facing events, including delivering company presentations, attending career fairs, conferences and hosting in-house days.
• Developing innovative recruitment strategies supported by data-backed insights in partnership with stakeholders.
• Proactively assessing and improving our current recruitment strategy by challenging the status quo and demonstrating curiosity.
• Acting as a utility player to support hiring and event needs across campus recruitment.

Who You Are:

• A professional with 3-5+ years of recruitment experience and a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
• A go-getter who operates well in ambiguity and spends time understanding the root problem, then devising a solution that is fit for purpose.
• A critical thinker with a drive for excellence, you celebrate wins and have a view on how to elevate our work. 
• A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can balance competing priorities with strong follow-through.
• A team player with a “can do” attitude who is willing to travel 4-5 times annually to represent Optiver at recruiting events.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment authorization for this job opening.

What you’ll get:

• Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
• Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
• Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.  
• Flexibility to WFH two days a week with three days in office.

Alongside this you will get great other benefits such as 25 paid vacation days and market holidays, fully paid commuting expenses and health insurance, daily breakfast and lunch, training opportunities, 401(k) match up to 50% and charitable match opportunities, regular social events and clubs, and many more.

Base range: 100,000-150,000