Electronic Equities Sales Trader

Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States

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Best Ex Research is a financial technology and research firm specializing in building sophisticated execution algorithms and transaction cost modeling tools servicing multiple asset classes. The firm provides its services to performance-demanding hedge funds, asset managers, and banks through a traditional electronic agency broker and in a broker-neutral Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Best Ex Research's mission is to become the leader in automation and measurement of execution across asset classes globally and significantly reduce transaction costs for our clients.

Its cloud-based platform, Algo Management System (AMS), is the first end-to-end algorithmic trading solution for equities, futures, and foreign exchange that delivers an entire ecosystem around execution algorithms, including transaction cost analysis (TCA), an algo customization tool called Strategy Studio, a trading dashboard, and pre-trade analytics in a single platform. The platform is currently live for Global Equities and Global Futures trading.

Best Ex Research is disrupting a $100 billion industry by challenging the status quo of stale, black-box solutions from banks and offering next-generation execution algorithms that combine performance improvement with transparency and customization. Visit  for more information about our mission, products, research, and services.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Americas Electronic Equities Trading team and become a key player in the expansion of our institutional equities business. This is a client-facing seat on the electronic equities desk, reporting to the Head of Equities Electronic Coverage, with an opportunity to take significant strides in career growth. The role sits at the intersection of institutional client coverage, execution analytics, advanced trading technology, and market microstructure.

Your focus will be to support institutional clients on a day to day basis and help optimize their equities execution through our advanced equities trading suite. You will work with many of the largest asset managers and hedge funds and play a key role in driving growth by developing relationships and expanding client engagement across the platform. You will work closely with our quantitative research, product, and trading technology teams, and act as a client advocate, providing feedback that will directly influence the direction of the product roadmap.

• Actively cover existing clients and provide real-time oversight of client algorithmic order flow across the US equities trading session.
• Engage with our clients to understand their execution needs and offer tailored solutions from Best Ex Research's product suite.
• Facilitate new client onboarding from testing, strategy configuration, and support through initial go-live.
• Analyze execution outcomes across strategies, venues, order size, and market conditions to support execution consulting conversations and algorithm customization.
• Help deliver market structure intelligence to clients on liquidity trends, regulatory change, and the competitive landscape.
• Lead issue escalation to trading technology and development teams during incidents, manage trading risk, and coordinate clear client communication.
• Prepare client meeting materials alongside senior coverage, maintain the client record, and own follow-up items to completion.
• Deliver structured client feedback to product and quantitative research so platform investment aligns with client demand.
• Participate in beta testing of new algorithmic features and introduce relevant enhancements to clients.

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