Commodities Volatility Trader

We're building out a trading initiative in London, with a growing focus on listed commodities options. This expansion is supported by a mix of internal talent and experienced external hires. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, the team offers a unique opportunity to help shape and scale a new desk from an early stage.

The group combines deep expertise with broad trading experience and values innovation, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration. As the desk continues to grow, there will be increasing opportunities to take on broader responsibilities and contribute meaningfully to its success.

 Your Core Responsibilities

• Maximize revenue by identifying and monetizing short- and long-term mispricing’s, as well as managing the resulting positions.


• Be able to take lots of responsibility and ownership early in your time here to drive the strategy forward.


• Managing risk and developing market making strategies


• You will have lots of responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful


• IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of data-driven analysis, quantitative modelling and algorithm development

Your skills and experience:

• 2+ years of volatility trading experience


• BS, MS, or PhD, preferably in STEM


• You have a quantitative and strategic mindset and a healthy appetite for risk


• Strong technical skills in Statistics and Python


• You have a proven ability to act and make decisions in a fast-paced and competitive environment


• You are analytical, passionate about reflecting on past trades, and always seeking to do better


• Experience with managing risk and developing market making strategies


• Product experience is preferred


• Strong communication and teamwork abilities