OTC Sales Trader

Join Wintermute as an OTC Sales Trader in New York to drive OTC business growth and expand trading relationships in a leading algorithmic trading firm.

## About Wintermute

Wintermute is one of the largest algorithmic trading companies in digital assets.

We provide liquidity algorithmically across all major cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, a broad range of OTC trading solutions as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto.

## What you'll do

## Responsibilities:

• •Take full ownership of OTC trading during US hours, from quoting trades to maintaining relationships with trading counterparties to increase trading activity
• •Work closely with senior traders to price and quote larger and more exotic trades
• •Evaluate and mitigate trading risks by using risk management strategies.
• •Work with the business development team to create and contribute to the OTC sales strategy
• •Leverage internal market commentary and research resources to provide additional value-add to counterparties; being able to generate own market color/research is an advantage
• •Participate in relevant conferences, events, and networking opportunities to expand our client base and stay ahead of market trends.

## Conditions

## Here is why you should join our dynamic team:

• •Opportunity to work at the world's leading algorithmic trading firm in digital assets.
• •Engaging projects offering accelerated responsibilities and ownership growth compared to traditional finance environments.
• •A vibrant working culture with team events, celebrations and company wide team building events.
• •A cool office in the heart of New York City which often hosts some of the leading industry events
• •Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet with a startup vibe, collaborative and entrepreneurial.
• •A performance-based compensation with a significant earning upside alongside standard perks like private medical insurance

## Hard Skills Requirements

• •Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or related field, such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, or Engineering
• •Experience working as a sales trader in a high performing business.
• •Crypto experience would be an advantage.

However, we are open to considering applicants from other asset classes.

• •Strong trading knowledge of OTC spot trading
• •Trading knowledge of derivatives products is a significant advantage; ability to learn pricing of derivatives is required (we will test)
• •Experience in a HFT/algorithmic trading business would be a plus.
• •Excellent quantitative and analytical skills (we will test)
• •Strong interest and curiosity in blockchain, crypto and DeFi - you like keeping track of major news and developments the crypto world.