Position Overview
Jefferies is seeking an experienced ETF Trader to join its New York trading team. The successful candidate will be responsible for facilitating client activity, making markets, and managing risk across a broad range of Exchange-Traded Funds, including both Equity and Fixed Income ETFs. This individual will play a critical role in providing liquidity, delivering best-in-class execution, and serving as a trusted advisor to institutional clients.
The ideal candidate will possess a strong track record of ETF trading, deep product expertise across the ETF ecosystem, and established client relationships. The candidate should be comfortable managing risk in dynamic market environments while collaborating closely with Sales, Research, Capital Markets, and other trading desks to drive franchise growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate institutional client trading activity across the Equity and Fixed Income ETF universe.
- Make markets and manage principal risk while maintaining disciplined risk management practices.
- Provide liquidity and execution solutions to a diverse institutional client base, including hedge funds, asset managers, pensions, and insurance companies.
- Develop and maintain strong client relationships, serving as a trusted resource for ETF market intelligence and execution expertise.
- Identify trading opportunities and generate ideas that support client engagement and revenue growth.
- Monitor primary and secondary ETF market activity, including creations/redemptions, fund flows, and liquidity dynamics.
- Collaborate closely with Sales Trading, Cash Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Capital Markets professionals to deliver integrated client solutions.
- Stay current on ETF product developments, market structure trends, regulatory developments, and competitive dynamics.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives aimed at expanding and strengthening Jefferies' ETF trading franchise.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to enhance client coverage, execution quality, and overall platform capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in ETF trading, market making, risk management, or institutional equity trading.
- Demonstrated ability to manage risk and facilitate client flow in a market-making environment.
- Strong understanding of ETF market structure, liquidity dynamics, pricing, and execution strategies.
- Deep product knowledge across both Equity and Fixed Income ETFs.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain institutional client relationships.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented trading environment.
- FINRA Series 7 and Series 57 licenses (or ability to obtain upon hire).
New York, NY Full Time Base Salary Range of $175,000-300,000.
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About UsJefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part-time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full-time employees, paid parental leave.
Skills Required
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in ETF trading, market making, risk management, or institutional equity trading
- Demonstrated ability to manage risk and facilitate client flow in a market-making environment
- Strong understanding of ETF market structure, liquidity dynamics, pricing, and execution strategies
- Deep product knowledge across both Equity and Fixed Income ETFs
- Proven ability to develop and maintain institutional client relationships
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and decision-making skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
- Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented trading environment
- FINRA Series 7 and Series 57 licenses (or ability to obtain upon hire)
Jefferies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jefferies and has not been reviewed or approved by Jefferies.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as competitive with meaningful upside, with potential for significant earnings depending on group performance and strong years. A formulaic, performance-linked bonus model ties payouts to individual fees or P&L, reinforcing a pay-for-results dynamic.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support is broad, including primary and non-primary caregiver leave, adoption assistance, subsidized emergency child and eldercare, and a $25,000 stipend for qualified surrogacy, adoption, or fertility support. Added resources like family support programs and parental-leave coaching further strengthen caregiver benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks extend beyond standard coverage, including discount programs, commuter benefits, legal plans, charitable matching, and education assistance such as tuition support and scholarships for employees’ family members. Location-specific perks like gym stipends and free cafeteria lunch are also described as available in some offices.
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What We Do
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for 60 years. Headquartered in New York, with offices in over 30 cities around the world, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, as well as asset and wealth management. The firm provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company. More about our company can be found at www.jefferies.com.
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