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Proprietary Trading and Funded Trader Businesses

Commercial, trading, risk, technology and executive appointments for proprietary trading and funded trader businesses.

The market

Hiring shaped by how this market actually works.

Prop trading models require a particular mix of trading judgement, risk control, technology, data, community, customer operations and commercial discipline. We search across traditional proprietary trading businesses and the funded trader sector, while testing candidates against the specific operating model of each client.

Example appointments
  • CEO, COO and General Manager
  • Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk
  • Head of Trading
  • Quantitative and systematic trading leadership
  • CTO, Head of Engineering and platform leadership
  • Product and programme leadership
  • Compliance and legal leadership
  • Growth, partnerships, community and affiliate leadership
  • Customer operations and payments leadership
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