Head of Equities

Head of Equities, Exotics & Structured Products — Director

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Director-level leader to serve as Head of Equities, Exotics & Structured Products. This individual will lead a global team of approximately 15–20 professionals responsible for the platforms and capabilities supporting structured products, complex equity derivatives, electronic trading, pricing, issuance, and execution.

The ideal candidate will combine deep capital-markets product knowledge with strong electronic-trading and technology leadership experience. This person should understand the complete structured-products lifecycle—from pricing and issuance through execution, risk management, and post-trade processing.

Experience supporting a direct-to-client retail, private banking, or wealth-management organization is strongly preferred. The role includes light international travel.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of approximately 15–20 professionals.
• Set the strategic direction for equities, equity derivatives, exotics, and structured-products capabilities.
• Drive the continued electronification and automation of the structured-products business.
• Oversee platforms supporting the pricing, issuance, trading, hedging, and risk management of structured notes, OTC derivatives, and other complex products.
• Develop and enhance electronic-trading capabilities, including direct market connectivity, request-for-quote workflows, order management, smart order routing, automated market making, and algorithmic execution.
• Partner with trading, structuring, sales, product, technology, operations, risk, and compliance teams to deliver scalable client solutions.
• Support the distribution of structured and complex products through retail, private banking, and wealth-management channels.
• Improve execution quality, pricing transparency, liquidity access, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the development of low-touch and algorithmic trading solutions capable of supporting increasing transaction volumes.
• Establish a cohesive global architecture across pricing, trading, issuance, execution, data, and risk platforms.
• Advance real-time data-streaming and analytics capabilities covering market data, reference data, pricing streams, trades, positions, P&L, valuations, and risk scenarios.
• Ensure that platforms and trading workflows meet applicable suitability, product-governance, best-execution, security, regulatory, and control requirements.
• Evaluate trading venues, brokers, liquidity providers, market-data providers, and external technology partners.
• Provide senior leadership with clear reporting on platform performance, trading activity, business risk, and strategic priorities.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain high-performing professionals across multiple regions.

Required Experience

• Significant leadership experience within equities, equity derivatives, exotic products, or structured products.
• Strong knowledge of structured notes, OTC derivatives, complex products, pricing, issuance, trading, hedging, valuation, and risk.
• Experience leading the electronification or modernization of a structured-products or derivatives business.
• Deep understanding of electronic-trading architecture and workflows, including market connectivity, RFQ, order management, routing, automated market making, and algorithmic trading.
• Experience building or overseeing front-office pricing, trading, execution, or risk platforms.
• Strong understanding of real-time market data, pricing streams, position data, P&L, valuation, scenario analysis, and risk analytics.
• Experience with low-latency, low-touch, microservices, data-streaming, or distributed trading applications.
• Demonstrated success managing a global or geographically distributed team of comparable size and complexity.
• Experience partnering closely with traders, quantitative strategists, structurers, sales teams, and senior business leaders.
• Strong understanding of the governance, controls, suitability, and regulatory considerations associated with complex investment products.
• Excellent judgment, executive communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally on a limited basis.

Preferred Background

• Experience within a private bank, wealth manager, retail brokerage, direct-investing platform, or other client-focused financial institution.
• Experience delivering structured products directly to retail, high-net-worth, or private banking clients.
• Background spanning both front-office business requirements and trading technology.
• Experience designing or scaling global platforms for structured-product pricing, issuance, trading, and distribution.
• Familiarity with both principal and agency execution models.
• Advanced degree in financial engineering, operations research, computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Relevant industry licenses or registrations.

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will be a hands-on, commercially minded leader who can connect product strategy, trading workflows, quantitative pricing, execution, and technology.

This individual should be equally comfortable discussing structured-product strategy with senior executives, pricing and risk with traders and quantitative teams, and platform architecture with engineering leaders. The role requires someone who can establish a long-term global vision while remaining close enough to the business and technology to ensure strong execution.