Senior Recruiter

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Recruiter to join our high-performing global Talent Acquisition team. This role will focus on hiring across business and commercial functions, with a particular emphasis on attracting talent with experience in fixed income, trading, capital markets, and financial services.

Reporting to the Global Head of Recruiting, this is a highly visible opportunity for a recruiter who brings strong market knowledge, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a proactive, execution-focused approach. The successful candidate will play an important role in helping MarketAxess attract exceptional talent while acting as a trusted partner to hiring managers and business leaders.

This is an ideal opportunity for a recruiter who understands the dynamics of the financial market’s talent landscape, is confident engaging with front-office and business stakeholders and can represent the MarketAxess story in a compelling and credible way to candidates. The role also requires a strong interest in how AI and data insights can improve candidate engagement and their overall experience.

What You’ll Get to Do

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle across assigned roles, from intake briefing and market mapping through sourcing, assessment, offer management, and onboarding partnership.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to understand hiring priorities, define role requirements, and develop effective search strategies.
• Recruit for roles with a focus on non-technical hiring, particularly those aligned to sales, trading, corporate services, operations, and other business functions.
• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing insight into market conditions, talent availability, candidate expectations, and competitive hiring trends.
• Create compelling and targeted job descriptions and ensure a high-quality, consistent candidate and interviewer experience.
• Use innovative sourcing tools and data-driven recruiting practices to identify and engage high-caliber talent.
• Maintain accurate candidate and pipeline activity within the Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse) to support data integrity and reporting.
• Contribute to the continued success of a lean, collaborative, and high-performing global recruitment team, bringing ideas, energy, and a continuous improvement mindset.

What We’re Looking for

• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally within financial services, capital markets, trading, fixed income, or FinTech environments.
• Strong understanding of the global hiring market, with experience recruiting for non-technical business roles.
• Demonstrated success hiring talent with backgrounds in fixed income, trading, markets, or related financial services disciplines.
• A proactive, self-starting approach, with the ability to manage multiple searches and stakeholder relationships effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to partner with senior hiring managers and provide credible market insight.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage numerous candidates, interview processes, and hiring priorities simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly and confidently articulate the MarketAxess value proposition, business model, growth story, and career opportunities to candidates.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.