Our Emerging Talent Programmes provide opportunities to join Maven at an early stage in your career, whether you are at school, university, recently graduated or completing further study.
We believe everyone is entitled to a fair opportunity and make extraordinary efforts to seek potential candidates from a diverse range of establishments and backgrounds. We offer dedicated classroom learning, professional skills development opportunities, and hands-on projects throughout our programmes, aiming to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in your career.
If you have any queries, please reach out to us at emergingtalent@mavensecurities.com
Market making involves buying and selling financial products, allowing market participants to trade with us whenever they want to via exchanges. This is commonly known as liquidity provision and is an important service provided by our teams.
Our Trading Emerging Talent roles include:
Trading opportunities are available across our London, Amsterdam and Chicago offices. Please check our live roles for current openings.
As a Quant Researcher, you will work collaboratively with traders and software developers to tackle problems related to fundamental pricing, algorithm design and signal generation. We will teach you the skills to develop expertise in doing quantitative research for options market making in equities, commodities and fixed income. You will complete training in London, where you’ll learn about financial markets, our platform and a specific quant research field for options market making. You’ll get the chance to apply your academic research abilities and learn how to perform research on real-world data of varied volume and sampling frequency across a variety of domains.
Our Quant Research Graduate Programme is aimed at final year students or recent graduates seeking full-time opportunities. Roles are available across our London and Chicago offices. Please check our live roles for current openings.
Technology is central to Maven’s business. Our developers build the systems, tools and infrastructure used across the firm, from low-latency trading applications to large-scale data analysis platforms. Technology teams work closely with trading and research to solve complex problems and deliver reliable, high-performance software.
Our Technology Emerging Talent roles include:
Technology opportunities are available across our London and Chicago offices. Please check our live roles for current openings.
Before submitting your application, please review the programme, business area and location you are applying to. Make sure you meet the eligibility requirements and that the opportunity matches your interests.
When preparing your CV, make sure you highlight the following: your educational background including relevant projects, work experience, and other experiences that demonstrate qualities such as motivation outside of academia - these do not have to be related to Technology or Trading.
Candidates can only apply to one Emerging Talent role each year across all regions, so please ensure you only apply for the one you’d like to be considered for.
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As part of the recruitment process, you may be asked to complete one or more online assessments. The assessments you complete will depend on the programme and business area you have applied to. You will receive instructions before each assessment, including what to expect and how to complete it.
Please make use of any practice questions or practice tasks available before starting.
Our numerical assessment is designed to understand your mental maths ability.
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Our probability assessment is designed to understand how you approach probability-based questions.
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Example question:
Alex is rolling an 8-sided dice. He stops once he rolls two 8s in a row. What is the expected number of rolls until he stops?
Options:
A) 76
B) 72
C) 68
D) 64
E) 60
Our coding assessment is designed to understand how you approach technical problems and apply your programming skills.
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Arctic Shores is a task-based assessment which measures a range of cognitive skills and traits.
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Interviews are a chance for us to learn more about you, your motivation for your chosen business area, and how you approach problems. They are also an opportunity for you to find out more about Maven and the role.
Interviews may include motivational, technical or behavioural questions.
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Assessment centres or final stage interviews are designed to give you a better understanding of the role while allowing us to see how you approach tasks, communicate and collaborate.
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Hear from some of our Graduates, Interns & Apprentices on their experience at Maven on our Emerging Talent Programmes!
We partner with The Talent Foundry to increase social mobility by working in partnership with schools, to help young people from underserved communities discover what they are amazing at and develop valuable new employment skills. Maven recently hosted 45 students from 5 schools in the London Office for workshops and coaching sessions. Maven volunteers share information on their career path, provide guidance, and motivations and act as role models to the students on the programme.
Maven supports Tintagel Tutoring to provide free 11+ tutoring to disadvantaged children in the Midlands. Their goal is to assist all students in achieving their full potential with the guidance they provide. In addition to the tutoring programme, we offer webinars for their partner school, Arthur Terry, a secondary and sixth-form college in Birmingham. These inspirational webinars educate secondary and 6th-form students about different career paths and inspire them to have aspirations beyond their current boundaries.
Maven works with MyPlus to support us to ensure our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates who apply. MyPlus also helps students with disabilities discover job opportunities with disability-inclusive employers and provides advice, guidance and support on the application and hiring process. We are thrilled to announce that Maven was the 2024 winner of the MyPlus ‘Most Progressed Inclusive Recruitment’ Award.
Visa sponsorship is available for graduate roles and will be discussed with eligible candidates at later stages of the process. Please make sure you share up to date information regarding your visa status when prompted to do so in the application form.
For our Internship programmes, you must hold the right to work in the region you are applying to at the time of application.
Due to our interview and assessment timelines, we are unable to expedite applications on an individual basis.
For our advice on how to best prepare, please check out the top tips tab on our webpage.
We currently offer Graduate and Internship opportunities across our London, Amsterdam and Chicago offices. Please refer to each job posting for further information.
If you have previously applied for one of our Graduate or Intern programmes and were unsuccessful, you will be able to re-apply the following year.
You can only apply to one Emerging Talent role each year across all regions, so please make sure you apply to the role you would most like to be considered for.
We aim to get back to you as soon as possible, and within two weeks of completing your online assessment.
Yes, in order to ensure we provide the right support, please contact emergingtalent@mavensecurities.com
If you experience a technical difficulty during any of the assessments, please contact the relevant support team below
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to provide individual feedback during the early stages of our application process.
