Institutional Trader
Flow Traders is a global liquidity provider that delivers continuous liquidity in financial markets, with deep expertise in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The firm lowers overall trading costs for market participants by providing higher execution quality across global exchanges and trading platforms.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders is a technology-driven liquidity provider operating in global financial markets, with a particular focus on Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The company combines deep ETP expertise, cutting-edge technology, and strong risk management to increase transparency and efficiency across the financial ecosystem, serving market participants such as exchanges and trading platforms across Europe, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. Beyond its core trading business, Flow Traders operates a dedicated strategic capital investment unit that partners with companies aligned to its mission of transparency and efficiency in financial markets, and it runs the Flow Traders Foundation, a philanthropic initiative focused on fighting poverty.
Skills
About the Role
You will own day-to-day sales trading operations and serve as a key point of contact for institutional clients across Flow Traders' full product suite, including ETFs, Fixed Income, ADRs, and Digital Assets. You will work closely with the proprietary trading desks to lead trade negotiations and execution, while collaborating with risk, operations, and compliance teams to ensure seamless workflows. Beyond execution, you will play an active role in managing and growing capital markets activity and issuer relationships, contributing directly to the commercial growth of the franchise.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in ETF sales trading, capital markets, or a related institutional markets role
- Undergraduate degree in relevant field, preferable finance, economics, business
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining meaningful relationships within the institutional markets community, including buy-side clients, ETF issuers, exchanges, platforms, and authorized participants
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize market data, identify opportunities, and translate complex information into clear, compelling insights
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a polished, professional presence in client-facing, conference, and internal settings
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently while thriving in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
- Series 7, required
- Series 57, 63, and 3, preferred
Responsibilities
- Own and manage day-to-day institutional sales trading across the full product suite with a focus on best execution and client satisfaction
- Work closely with proprietary trading desks to understand and communicate trading strategies and liquidity offering to institutional counterparties
- Establish develop and maintain relationships with key participants in the U.S. ETF ecosystem including asset managers hedge funds pension funds insurance companies and broker-dealers
- Build and manage ETF issuer relationships acting as a primary liaison between ETF sponsors and the trading desk providing market structure feedback secondary market liquidity insights and supporting new product launches and seeding activity
- Collaborate with ETF issuers and authorized participants on basket construction operational workflows and capital markets strategy
- Represent the firm at industry conferences roadshows seminars and issuer events
Benefits
- Annual discretionary variable remuneration