About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, HR & Recruitment.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

Confidential Client is hiring an Early Career Talent Partner to lead early-career and campus recruiting for the Trading organization. You will own strategy and execution for sourcing quantitative and trading-adjacent early talent, build relationships with academic programs and student groups, and partner with Trading leadership to deliver a reliable pipeline of high-potential hires.

• Execute the early-career recruitment strategy for the Trading department, influencing campus recruiting cycles for undergraduate and graduate candidates
• Represent Confidential Client at collegiate trading competitions, poker tournaments, and industry networking events as primary sourcing and employer-brand channels
• Build and maintain relationships with campus trading groups, investment clubs, quant/finance student organizations, faculty, program directors, and alumni networks
• Create and deepen pipelines with academic programs (financial mathematics, financial engineering, quantitative research, applied math, statistics) that feed trading and quant roles
• Manage full-cycle campus recruiting for Trading roles: screen resumes, run phone screens, coordinate interviews, support Super Day logistics, and manage offers in partnership with People Operations
• Partner with Trading hiring managers to translate evolving skill needs (quantitative reasoning, probability, market intuition) into sourcing strategies and evaluation criteria
• Present internship programs and early-career development paths during campus visits and virtual events
• Analyze engagement ROI from competitions, clubs, and academic partnerships and iterate on outreach tactics
• Deliver a high-touch candidate and hiring-manager experience that articulates Confidential Client’s culture and values to a quantitative audience
• Measure recruiting results, identify process improvements, and drive systematization and automation where appropriate

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What You’ll Need

• 2+ years of recruiting experience, ideally focused on interns, entry-level, and early-career hires in fintech, financial services, or related fields
• Demonstrated full-cycle recruiting skills: resume review, phone screens, interview coordination, and offer management
• Proven success recruiting at multiple universities in competitive markets — experience with quantitative trading, prop trading, or finance is a plus
• Comfort discussing quantitative and markets-adjacent concepts (probability, statistics, game theory) with faculty, competition organizers, and student groups
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to travel during peak campus recruiting seasons (fall and spring) for competitions, conferences, and campus events
• Strong organizational, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills; ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Experience coordinating both in-person and virtual recruiting events
• Comfortable working with recruitment and market data, reporting, and analytics
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Ability to sit and concentrate for long periods and to lift up to 30 pounds
• Sponsorship: Not available for this position

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Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $70,000 - $90,000 per year
• Certain positions may be eligible for discretionary bonuses. Employees have access to a benefits package (details available from the hiring organization upon request).

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Location, Schedule & Travel

• Location: Schiller Park, IL (on-site expectations vary by team)
• Work schedule: Regular business hours with occasional nights and weekends as needed
• Travel: Occasional travel for campus events, competitions, and conferences during recruiting seasons

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Why Apply

This role is a high-impact opportunity to shape early-career talent strategy for a trading organization. If you enjoy university partnerships, event-driven sourcing, and translating technical hiring needs into scalable programs, you’ll thrive here. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply — Confidential Client values diverse perspectives and inclusive hiring.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

If you have questions about how your data is used, please contact us directly.