Covered Call Strategist (Remote, Funded Options Trader) — Kansas City, MO

A covered call strategist at Maverick runs an income overlay on firm equity holdings. The role isn't about picking the next moonshot stock - it's about managing a portfolio of quality names and systematically generating premium against them. Done well, the strategy compounds an equity portfolio's return without taking on the open-ended risk of naked short calls.

Kansas City hosts the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (one of the 12 regional Fed banks), American Century Investments, and H&R Block's headquarters. The financial-services labor market is stronger than the metro's size suggests, and Central Time alignment with US markets is clean.

Covered calls on firm-held equity positions, predominantly large-cap dividend-paying names and quality growth stocks. Some traders also run cash-secured puts on names they would be willing to own - the 'wheel' approach - to enter equity positions at a discount.

Covered calls cap upside on the underlying - that's the trade. The risk is leaving large gains on the table when overwritten strikes are blown through. Maverick traders manage this by tiered coverage (only writing against a portion of a position) and by sizing call strikes based on the underlying's expected move and the trader's directional view.

Covered call programs are a legitimate institutional strategy run by major asset managers. The retail version is often poorly executed - wrong strikes, wrong sizing, wrong expirations. Maverick funds traders who run the strategy with institutional discipline against firm capital.

• Traders who already think in portfolio terms - not single-position P&L
• People comfortable with a strategy whose returns are bounded but steady
• Candidates with a value-investing or income-investing background
• Traders who can resist the urge to chase higher premium by selling deep-ITM or far-OTM calls