Jefferies
Equity Derivatives Trader — Associate / Vice President
New York, NY, United States · Exec · Full-time
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About the role
- This role is suited to a trader with a deep understanding of option Greeks, volatility, and real-time risk management, particularly as they relate to single stock exposures rather than index-based products.
- New York, NY Full Time Base Salary Range of $150,000-235,000. #LI-DNI
Responsibilities
- Manage live trading risk across key option Greeks, including delta, gamma, vega, theta, and skew.
- Work closely with sales teams to understand client flow, respond to pricing requests, and manage client-driven risk.
- Collaborate with quant, technology, operations, and control teams to enhance pricing tools, risk systems, and execution processes.
- Maintain disciplined hedging, inventory management, P&L attribution, and adherence to risk limits.
- Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced trading floor environment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner with sales and other internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- Current or prior experience in a flow-facing trading seat.
- Demonstrated experience with market making, client pricing, hedging, and real-time risk management.
- High attention to detail and strong understanding of trading controls and risk governance.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of volatility surfaces, skew, term structure, and single-name options market structure.
- Programming or data analysis skills in Python, VBA, SQL, or similar tools.
- Experience contributing to pricing models, risk tools, trading analytics, or execution workflows.
Compensation
- New York, NY Full Time Base Salary Range of $150,000-235,000. #LI-DNI
Benefits
- Price, trade, and risk-manage equity derivative products with a focus on single stock / single-name options.
- Monitor single-name volatility, earnings events, corporate actions, borrow, dividends, liquidity, and idiosyncratic stock risk.
- Support market-making activity across single stock equity derivatives and related products.
- 2-7 years of experience in equity derivatives trading.
- Strong preference for candidates with experience focused on single stock / single-name equity derivatives, rather than primarily index products.
Company info
- We are seeking an Equity Derivatives Trader at the Associate or Vice President level with a focus on single stock equity derivatives.
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