Head of Trading

You will lead the trading desk and ensure reliable institutional execution across digital-asset spot and derivatives markets. You will own pricing, risk, P&L, trading systems, counterparties, and strategy; represent the function to clients; and develop traders while partnering with internal control, sales, product, and technology functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the trading desk and traders.
• Own pricing, P&L, platform roadmap, and client experience.
• Tune order and execution management system pricing and hedging logic.
• Own market risk, inventory, hedging, limits, and escalation.
• Select, onboard, negotiate with, and manage counterparties.
• Optimize cash, collateral, and margin across trading venues.
• Represent the trading function to institutional clients and partners.
• Advise Sales and Product on pricing and product design.
• Define and execute trading strategy, products, venues, order types, and connectivity.
• Develop traders and manage performance and succession planning.
• Partner with senior management, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Sales, and Product.
• Maintain market knowledge across derivatives and digital-asset markets.

Requirements

• Proven trading-desk leadership or senior desk experience with direct people responsibility in a regulated financial institution.
• Experience in electronic trading and OTC flow trading in regulated financial markets.
• Hands-on experience configuring order or execution management systems and pricing and execution parameters.
• Fluency in derivatives greeks, margin, basis, and funding.
• Ability to build and retain institutional client relationships at decision-maker level.
• Ability to meet FINMA fit-and-proper standards with a clean regulatory and background record.
• Full professional English proficiency.
• Willingness to relocate to Switzerland and work from the Zurich office.
• OTC derivatives trading experience in FX, digital assets, or related products.
• Knowledge of digital-asset market structure, perpetuals, funding, basis, trading venues, and stablecoin settlement.
• Options market making, structuring, or volatility trading experience.
• Experience institutionalizing an entrepreneurial trading desk.
• P&L ownership of a trading product or service.

Benefits

• Opportunity to travel and attend leading events.
• Regular company-wide meetings, knowledge-sharing sessions, and team events.
• Modern central workplace in Zurich with top-tier infrastructure.