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Early Career Talent Partner - Trading

Belvedere Trading · Chicago, IL · $70,000–$90,000 a year · Full time · Talent

Posted Sep 22, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

Tell me about a time you managed a high-volume recruiting season. How did you keep candidates from falling through the cracks?

What they are checking: Whether they can stay organized and responsive when hundreds of candidates are moving at once.

How do you make the candidate experience strong even for people who do not get an offer?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that reputation on campus depends on how every candidate is treated.

Tell me about a relationship you built with a university career center or student group.

What they are checking: Whether they can create lasting campus partnerships that produce candidates year after year.

What would you do

How would you build a campus recruiting strategy for trading roles at a proprietary trading firm like Belvedere?

What they are checking: Whether they can choose schools, events and channels based on where strong trading candidates actually come from.

A trading manager wants to change the hiring bar halfway through the season. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they can partner with hiring managers while keeping the process fair and consistent.

A top candidate has a competing offer from another trading firm with a short deadline. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they can move quickly, communicate honestly and help the firm compete for talent.

How would you build a more diverse pipeline of trading candidates?

What they are checking: Whether they have practical ideas for widening the pipeline without lowering the hiring bar.

How would you help interns convert into full-time hires?

What they are checking: Whether they think beyond hiring to the intern experience and the feedback that leads to offers.

About the work

What do you think makes a strong early career trading candidate, and how would you screen for it?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the quantitative skills, decision-making and temperament trading teams look for.

How would you use recruiting data to improve the process from one year to the next?

What they are checking: Whether they track conversion rates, sources and outcomes and use them to make decisions.

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The full job description

As published by Belvedere Trading.

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. Our People Team department focuses on delivering employee-first solutions to the business. We go all-out to understand and support our team member's needs, leverage data to gain insights and trends, and advance our human-capital-related applications for efficiency and consistency. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success.  The People Team is comprised of Employee Experience, People Operations, Talent, and People & Development. These groups work closely together to bring in the best talent for Team Belvedere and from day one, make sure that all team members have all the tools they need to succeed and develop through their tenure. We believe university and early career hiring helps our company look at problems in alternative ways, integrate fresh perspectives, and innovate. We're currently looking for an Early Career Talent Partner to own hiring for our Trading Department, building the pipeline of quantitative traders and trading-adjacent talent that keeps Belvedere competitive. This role will be responsible for attracting and hiring high-potential colleagues, developing quality relationships with student groups and academic programs that feed into our industry, and building a strong employer brand among the communities that produce top trading talent. You will own have stakeholder relationships with Trading leadership and strategically partner with the business to drive hiring and lead best practices in trading talent acquisition for interns, graduates, and those early in their professional careers.

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