- Full Time
- Sydney, Australia
- Founded 2007
IMC
IMC is a global market maker, using advanced technology and sophisticated strategies to trade across major financial markets. With offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, and Sydney, we combine deep market expertise with cutting-edge systems to provide liquidity around the clock.
As we expand our presence in the index options space, we are looking for an experienced and highly driven Index Options Trader with a deep understanding of volatility and risk, and a strong appetite for taking directional positions. This is a high-impact role for someone eager to deploy capital with conviction, influence strategy, and help shape one of the most dynamic areas of our trading business.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of a major index options trading book across APAC markets, with a focus on opportunistic, high-risk/high-reward strategies.
- Deploy directional and volatility-based trades with strong conviction, backed by market intuition, quantitative signals, and rigorous scenario analysis.
- Actively manage risk and exposure in real time, leveraging your deep knowledge of index behaviour, macro events, and volatility dynamics.
- Collaborate with quant researchers, developers, and execution specialists to continuously refine models, trading logic, and infrastructure.
- Contribute to strategic growth initiatives, including new index product rollouts, region-specific opportunities, and innovation in volatility surfaces.
- Mentor junior traders, and play a leadership role on a high-performance trading desk.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience trading index options or related macro volatility products with proven PnL in high-risk discretionary or systematic strategies.
- Deep expertise in options pricing, volatility surfaces, and complex risk/reward scenarios, especially around macro catalysts.
- Exceptional decision-making under pressure, with the confidence to size positions and challenge consensus views.
- Preferred experience in APAC indices – eg. Japan, Hong Kong, Korea.
- Technically conversant with data analysis tools and risk modeling frameworks.
- Highly entrepreneurial, intellectually curious, and constantly looking for an edge.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
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