Responsibilities
- Own the options business plan, P&L and budget proposal.
- Select the initial clients, venues, underlyings and strategies. Define the sequence across securities, futures and crypto options and the resources required for each.
- Select and negotiate carrying or executing brokers, FCM services, crypto options venues, OTC dealers, market data and technology with the relevant market heads. Distinguish agency exchange access from a client OTC contract hedged elsewhere.
- Own strategy eligibility and lifecycle requirements, including exercise, assignment, expiry, deliverables, adjusted contracts, dividends, multi-leg orders and the resulting stock, futures, crypto or cash obligations.
- Work with Risk on Greeks, volatility and scenario analysis, margin, concentration, early exercise, pin risk and partial assignment.
- Ensure product limits and disclosures describe operational and funding risks as well as expiry payoff.
- Lead product permissions, account approval, client education and disclosures with Legal and Compliance. Establish the requirements for each legal entity, customer type and instrument rather than relying on a generic broker licence.
- Deliver options chains, strategy entry, order routing, reporting, reconciliation and exception handling with Product, Engineering and Operations.
- Validate the full lifecycle with carrying partners before expanding customer permissions.
- Build specialist distribution with Sales, train client-facing teams and lead the options team.
- Own launch, client servicing, adoption and continuous improvement, and justify each expansion through contribution economics and operational evidence.
Requirements
- A record of leading an options brokerage product or business into live client use, including responsibility for implementation, partner dependencies and commercial outcomes.
- Deep expertise in at least one major options market, strong command of options mechanics and risk, and a credible ability to build specialist coverage for the other markets in this mandate.
- Practical understanding of listed securities exercise and assignment, and of options on futures and crypto settlement differences, sufficient to identify gaps and recruit or engage the required specialist expertise.
- Experience with carrying or clearing partners, options execution technology, multi-leg workflows, client segmentation and the product approval process in a regulated business.
- Evidence of leading Product, Operations, Risk and Sales, managing a business plan and communicating in professional English.
- Proprietary volatility trading alone is insufficient without brokerage launch and service ownership.
What We Offer
- Reliability: official employment from the first day, bonuses, annual employee review (salary review or bonus, feedback on work results).
- Stability: our clients are in different countries, so we are ready for any changes in the work of any country.
- Development: a lot of projects and products, which means increasing expertise in working with different technologies, or even switching to completely new ones within the company.
- Active corporate life: we participate in thematic conferences and forums in our sphere of business, and hold corporate parties in the best restaurants of the city.
- Comfort: offices are in different countries, and you can work from anywhere in the world.
