Early Career Talent Partner (Trading)

Location: Chicago, Illinois; hybrid workplace. Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours is required. Travel may occasionally be required for campus recruiting periods, off-site events, conferences, or job fairs.

Company

hirify.global operates in quantitative and proprietary trading, building talent pipelines for trading teams and related functions.

What you will do

• Execute the early-career recruiting strategy for the Trading Department across undergraduate and graduate hiring cycles.
• Source candidates through collegiate trading competitions, poker tournaments, industry events, campus visits, and virtual open houses.
• Build relationships with campus trading groups, investment clubs, quantitative finance organizations, academic programs, faculty, program directors, and alumni.
• Manage the full-cycle recruiting process from applications and screening through interviews, Super Day, offers, engagement, and onboarding coordination.
• Partner with Trading leaders to translate market needs, quantitative reasoning, probability, and market intuition into sourcing and evaluation criteria.
• Measure recruiting results, analyze partnership effectiveness, and improve recruiting processes through systematization and automation.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of recruitment experience, preferably with intern, entry-level, or early-career talent in fintech, professional services, or financial firms.
• Experience managing full-cycle recruiting, including resume review, phone screens, interview coordination, facilitation, and offer calls.
• Experience recruiting at multiple universities in competitive markets; quantitative trading, proprietary trading, or finance experience is preferred.
• Ability to discuss quantitative and markets-adjacent concepts such as probability, statistics, and game theory with student groups, faculty, and competition organizers.
• Bachelor's degree required, along with strong communication, analytical, organizational, decision-making, negotiation, and project-management skills.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting for quantitative trading or other highly competitive finance roles.
• Experience coordinating both in-person and virtual recruiting events and presenting recruitment or market data.
• Experience engaging candidates with extended non-compete periods.

Culture & Benefits

• Core values include Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse.
• Discretionary bonuses may be available for eligible positions.
• Employees have access to a variety of company benefits.
• The role includes opportunities to develop recruiting programs, improve operational processes, and create new engagement initiatives.
• The position requires the ability to sit and concentrate for extended periods and lift up to 30 pounds.