Experienced Risk Manager
IMC TradingAbout the Role
Join IMC's Chicago Risk team as an Experienced Risk Manager, focusing primarily on Delta One business. Risk at IMC is deeply integrated with trading—working side-by-side with traders and technology teams to understand risk, challenge assumptions, and help build frameworks that support better trading decisions. You'll collaborate daily with traders, quantitative researchers, and software engineers while helping shape the firm's approach to risk across existing and emerging trading strategies.
- 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 IMC's portfolios
- Develop and enhance risk methodologies for products including equities, ETFs, futures, and other exchange-traded instruments
- 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
Requirements
- 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
What You'll Get
- $150k–$210k base salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Paid leave
- Insurance