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Senior Equity Analyst

Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Posted
Jul 29, 2026
Last seen
Aug 21, 2026

About the role

As a Senior Equity Analyst, you’ll sit directly on the trading desk, influencing real-time decisions and shaping positions with direct P&L impact. This is not a traditional equity research role – your work will be used in live trading environments where speed, adaptability, and commercial judgement are critical.

You’ll bring strong experience owning sector coverage, along with a keen understanding of how fundamentals drive short-term price action and volatility. While we are open to candidates from any sector background, you should be comfortable applying your framework across new names and situations.

This is a high-impact role designed for analysts who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments – and who are eager to apply their market-making instincts, short-horizon research, and option-aware thinking to drive tangible results.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Equity Analyst, your key responsibilities include:

  • Leverage fundamental, event-driven, and short-term catalysts to create an orthogonal trading revenue stream expressed via the analyst book identify and evaluate trading opportunities
  • Partner with traders to help optimize analyst and market making positions, directly owning risk in both the analyst and market making books
  • Support market making desk with general insights that improve day-to-day trading decisions
  • Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses for upcoming events and corporate developments, assessing their potential impact on both equity and volatility
  • Translate research insights into actionable strategies across equities and options
  • Contribute to process improvements and knowledge sharing across the analyst team, refining how fundamental insights are monetized in a market-making context
  • Mentor junior analysts and support the continued growth of the equity research function

What you’ll get

  • The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
  • Highly competitive compensation package
  • Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
  • 401(k) match up to 50%
  • Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
  • 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
  • Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are

  • 5+ years of experience as an equity analyst, within a market-making environment, proprietary trading firm, or event-driven / trading-oriented hedge fund
  • Proven track record of owning sector coverage and generating differentiated, actionable insights
  • Strong understanding of how fundamentals translate into short-term price moves and volatility
  • Experience working closely with trading desks or in fast-feedback, P&L-driven environments
  • Comfortable applying your research process across sectors, with the ability to quickly build conviction on new names
  • Familiarity with options and volatility dynamics, or a strong interest in developing this expertise&lt