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Senior Equity Analyst

Optiver
USAfull_timePosted 11 Jun 2026

About the role

<p>As a Senior Equity Analyst, you’ll sit directly on the trading desk, influencing real-time decisions and shaping positions with direct P&amp;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.</p> <p>You’ll bring strong experience owning sector coverage, along with a keen understanding of how fundamentals drive short-term price action and volatility. While we are open to candidates from any sector background, you should be comfortable applying your framework across new names and situations.</p> <p>This is a high-impact role designed for analysts who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments – and who are eager to apply their market-making instincts, short-horizon research, and option-aware thinking to drive tangible results.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></p> <p>As a Senior Equity Analyst, you will:</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Partner with traders to help optimize analyst and market making positions, directly owning risk in both the analyst and market making books</li> <li>Support market making desk with general insights that improve day-to-day trading decisions</li> <li>Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses for upcoming events and corporate developments, assessing their potential impact on both equity and volatility</li> <li>Translate research insights into actionable strategies across equities and options</li> <li>Contribute to process improvements and knowledge sharing across the analyst team, refining how fundamental insights are monetized in a market-making context</li> <li>Mentor junior analysts and support the continued growth of the equity research function</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll get:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries</li> <li>Highly competitive compensation package</li> <li>Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure</li> <li>401(k) match up to 50%</li> <li>Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage</li> <li>25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays</li> <li>Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience as an equity analyst, within a market-making environment, proprietary trading firm, or event-d

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