Market Structure Strategy Lead

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced professional to lead our Market Structure Strategy at IMC US a cutting-edge quantitative trading firm. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in deepening relationships with key market participants and enhancing our market presence while ensuring IMC stays ahead of the structural technological and regulatory shifts that shape our trading environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the strategic direction of the firm by influencing market structure evolution and collaborating with internal teams to ensure optimal trading and business outcomes.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Market Structure Strategy: Stay at the forefront of market structure changes across asset classes providing insights into how regulatory technological and competitive developments impact the firms trading operations and business.

• Exchange Architecture & Technical Analysis: Maintain a technical understanding of exchange architecture and matching engine mechanics across relevant venues and work with IMC experts to translate incoming changestechnological structural or proceduralinto clear assessments of how they will impact IMCs trading operations systems and strategy.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with trading technology legal and compliance teams to align business initiatives with regulatory requirements and market trends.

• Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders including exchanges brokers clearinghouses and liquidity providers to optimize trading conditions and market addition to managing these relationships directly collaborate with the right internal IMC experts to bring into key conversations fostering stronger more technically grounded relationships across the firm.

• Competitive Analysis: Conduct ongoing analysis of emerging trends to identify opportunities for competitive differentiation and advantage.

• Regulatory Advocacy: Work closely with legal and compliance teams regarding market structure advocacy; engage with regulatory bodies and industry groups to represent the firms interests in shaping policy developments that impact market structure.

• Business Development: Support identification of new business opportunities including partnerships and expansion into new markets or asset classes where they intersect with market structure strategy.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Industry Experience: 8 years of experience in market structure exchange technology or strategy roles within financial services ideally within a quantitative trading proprietary trading or market-making firm. Options market experience is critical.

• Market Structure & Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of market structure across multiple asset classes (e.g. options equities futures fixed income) including exchange architecture matching engine mechanics exchange mechanics liquidity dynamics and regulatory environments. Ability to quickly assess the technical and operational implications of exchange or infrastructure changes on IMCs business.

• Proven Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence outcomes in complex fast-paced environments.

• Analytical Mindset: Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to interpret data and market trends to drive decision-making.

• Organization & Prioritization: Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and prioritize based on IMCs top strategic priorities.

• Relationship-Building: Proven track record of developing and maintaining strong relationships with key market participants particularly in options trading. Skilled at knowing when to loop in the right internal subject-matter experts to deepen or extend those relationships.

• Regulatory Acumen: Deep understanding of global financial regulations and how they impact market structure trading and compliance.

• Communication Skills: Excellent communication negotiation and presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly to both internal teams and external stakeholders.

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.