Global Market Data Manager
The Global Market Data Manager at IMC will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the firm's market data strategy across regions, ensuring that data is sourced, governed, and delivered to support trading, research, and risk management. This position operates at the intersection of trading, technology, compliance, and external vendors, with a focus on driving standardization, transparency, and scalability while accommodating regional requirements. As IMC continues to expand its global trading footprint, the role will lead efforts to centralize market data practices, enhance usage tracking and compliance, and evaluate build-versus-buy data solutions. The ideal candidate will bring deep industry expertise, strong external relationships, and the credibility to act as a trusted partner to both traders and technologists.
Key responsibilities include setting strategy and leading the U.S. Market Data team, owning the end-to-end market data footprint and its evolution over time. The role involves acting as a key contributor to global market data strategy, collaborating with regional peers to align standards, tooling, and long-term initiatives. The manager will own and drive market data projects that directly support trading objectives, operational efficiency, and firm-wide priorities. Additionally, the position requires identifying, evaluating, and onboarding new market and alternative data sets, ensuring each data source delivers measurable value to specific trading strategies. Providing high-level technical and architectural guidance on how market data should be sourced, normalized, distributed, and consumed across the firm is also a critical aspect of the role.
The position requires 8-12+ years of experience in market data, data analysis, and data management within proprietary trading, market-making, or other high-performance trading environments. Deep expertise in market data use cases within trading firms, including how data is consumed across research, trading, risk, and production systems, is essential. Strong knowledge of core and alternative market data, including security master, reference data, pricing, corporate actions, exchange and OTC data, and alternative data sets, is required. A solid understanding of high-frequency and low-latency trading architectures, including technical integration of market data into trading systems, is necessary. Demonstrated expertise in market data management best practices, including policies, controls, entitlements, and usage governance, is also important. Proven experience managing vendor and exchange relationships, including contract negotiation, commercial discussions, and ongoing performance oversight, is expected. Strong communication skills with the ability to engage credibly with traders, engineers, compliance, and senior leadership are crucial.
The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $245,000 USD. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit IMC Trading's benefits page for more comprehensive information.
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, the company has been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, IMC's talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by a uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and a commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying trading strategies, IMC continuously innovates and collaborates to succeed.