Recruitment Programs Specialist

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 Recruitment Program Specialist, you will work alongside the Recruitment and Marketing teams to attract top talent into our early engagement initiatives.

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 stabilising 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:

• Support and execute early talent engagement initiatives, including in-person and virtual events at universities and in-office, playing a front-facing role with our highest priority audience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with recruiters, marketers, and business stakeholders to ensure our initiatives effectively reach and resonate with top talent.
• Manage logistics for events, including external partner management, communications, and operational execution.
• Create marketing assets using templates and collaborate with the Brand Marketing team to develop new content.
• Track and measure impact of initiatives, providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Participate in ideation sessions and propose creative approaches to meaningfully engage with our target audience.

Who you are:

• 1-3 years of professional experience, preferably in a student facing role such as campus recruitment, career services, partnership marketing, field marketing or event planning.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills and knowledge of marketing / recruiting tools such as Greenhouse, Hubspot, Canva, Adobe Suite, Salesforce, Gem, etc.
• Detail-oriented, with excellent project management skills, able to manage multiple projects at once.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, comfortable with public speaking and engaging with candidates, colleagues, and external partners.
• Eager to understand how campus recruiting impacts the broader business and excited about shaping early talent pipelines.
• Ability to travel as required for campus events.

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.  
• 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.

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.