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Experienced Risk Manager

IMC


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 150000 - 150000
Posted: 2 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 3 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

IMC is looking for an Experienced Risk Manager to join our Chicago Risk team focusing primarily on Delta One business. Risk at IMC is deeply integrated with tradingwe dont operate as a separate control function. Instead we work sideby-side with traders and technology teams to understand risk challenge assumptions and help build the frameworks that support better trading decisions. Our team has a broad mandate across market credit capital and operational risk. Rather than assigning rigid responsibilities we encourage people to contribute wherever they can have the greatest impact. Youll collaborate daily with traders quantitative researchers and software engineers while helping shape the firms approach to risk across existing and emerging trading strategies. This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative team with significant visibility across the business direct exposure to senior leadership and the ability to influence both day-to-day trading decisions and the long-term evolution of IMCs risk framework.
Your Core Responsibilities:
  • Partner closely with traders to identify monitor and manage risk across a wide range of trading strategies

  • Monitor and analyze market credit capital and operational risks across IMCs portfolios

  • Develop and enhance risk methodologies for products including equities ETFs futures and other exchange-traded instruments

  • Analyze concentration risk tail-event scenarios and other portfolio-level exposures to improve risk visibility and decision-making

  • Build and enhance quantitative risk tools reporting and monitoring frameworks using Python

  • Partner with software engineering teams to improve risk infrastructure and automate risk workflows

  • Work closely with traders to evaluate new strategies products and markets while ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place

  • Challenge existing processes and propose new frameworks that improve how IMC understands and manages risk

Your Skills and Experience:
  • 5 years of experience in financial risk management quantitative risk or a related front-office risk function

  • Experience supporting exchange-traded products such as equities ETFs futures or other linear products

  • Familiarity with Delta One trading strategies

  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills

  • Proficiency in Python for data analysis risk analytics or automation

  • Working knowledge of SQL is preferred

  • Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts to traders engineers and business stakeholders

  • Comfortable working in a highly collaborative fast-paced environment with significant ownership and autonomy

  • FINRA SIE and Series 57 or willingness to obtain them after joining IMC

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits including paid leave and visit Benefits - US IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$150000 - $210000 USD

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling machine learning and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989 we provide liquidity across trading venues delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers traders and engineers work as a collective combining rapid experimentation advanced infrastructure and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.


Required Experience:

Manager


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IMC

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