Optiver is one of the most reputable and innovative market makers in the world. We offer a unique opportunity to join our Global Strategy team as a Global Strategy Manager. In this role, you will work directly with the firm’s senior leadership on the toughest challenges to protect our competitive positioning and successfully expand our impact and footprint. Join a small team of experienced strategists to deliver impact at pace. This role offers exceptional career opportunities, a highly competitive rewards structure, and dynamic career growth options.  

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. We tackle the toughest problems, challenge the status quo and always aim for excellence. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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 derivatives 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
As a Strategy Manager your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Executive Committee and key business leaders in solving some of Optiver’s most challenging strategic questions.
• Coordinating and leading key business initiatives.
• Acting as a sounding board and sparring partner to business leaders; authoring and delivering recommendations to senior management.  

WHO YOU ARE
Optiver needs our Global Strategy Manager to be someone with:

• 5-10 years of relevant work experience, for example, at a leading tech firm, a financial institution, a top-tier consulting firm, or a private equity firm.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills; capable of thinking strategically while paying attention to detail.
• Excellent project management skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in performing data-driven analyses.
• Strong sense of ownership and personal responsibility.
• Hands-on mentality and can-do attitude to achieve results.
• Ability to quickly grasp new topics and make them their own.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to convert complex issues into succinct insights.

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. 

Additionally, you’ll 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.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT
At Optiver, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. Optiver recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.