Options Trader - Asia Hours
$225,000–$250,000 year
Hybrid · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Options Market Making Trader to support Asian-hours coverage (4 pm–1 am CT, Sunday–Thursday) with training across shifts and products (S&P, Metals, Nasdaq, Russell, Vix options). Responsibilities include maintaining the trading schedule, ensuring system readiness, executing electronic trading and occasional broker calls, real-time recalibration of controls, facilitating handoffs between shifts, and contributing to execution improvements during non-trading hours. Requires 2+ years of options market making trading experience and 1+ year of market making portfolio management experience; strong operational, communication, and independent decision-making abilities. Nice to have experience in listed options and Python programming; compensation $225,000–$250,000 USD with potential discretionary bonus; hybrid work model with remote/on-site flexibility.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of options market making trading experience
- Minimum 1 year of market making portfolio management experience
- Interest in building longer term stability in our Asian hours operation
- Strong operational skillset to partner with technologists on prevention and quick resolution of system issues/outages
- Strong judgement to make trading and portfolio management decisions under pressure and with more independence given more limited shift support
- Ability to distill influx of information to prioritize and address the most important thing at any given moment
- Proactive communicator and self-starter who can effectively coordinate between shifts and take initiative to ensure continuous personal development
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