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title: 'Active Trader Sales: Options Lead at Public'
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# Active Trader Sales: Options Lead at Public

- **Company:** Public
- **Location:** New York City OR, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/public/jobs/7982150003

## Job description

## About Public

Public is building the Agentic Brokerage. Focused on serious investors who use AI and a vast variety of asset classes, from stocks and bonds to crypto and options, to build their portfolios. Launched in 2019, Public has been trusted with billions of assets from retail investors.

What you'll do:

You'll own the acquisition, advocacy, and retention of high-volume options traders at Public by working across every function and leveraging every asset we have to bring them onto the platform. That means building and maintaining a pipeline of high-potential prospects from both Public-generated and outbound channels, and, where useful, identifying and working with external partners to hit your goals. Options volume is your north star: you'll figure out where sophisticated flow lives, meet traders where they are, and do whatever it takes (within regulatory limits) to bring that volume to Public.

Public is the Agentic Brokerage, and options traders are among the most sophisticated users of our platform. You'll be the connective tissue between our product and the trader community by evangelizing our AI Agents, API access, and options tooling to the traders who'll push them hardest, then channeling what you hear back to product and engineering. You'll need to know our API and agentic capabilities well enough to demo them credibly and win over traders who build their own systems.

This is a role for someone who works well independently and enjoys owning their approach. You'll have real autonomy and a clear target, with the flexibility to figure out the path that works best.

What we're looking for:

- 5+ years experience working in a premier consumer finance and/or capital markets organization
- Series 7, Series 4 and/or 63/66 (or immediate path to completing)
- Deep, hands-on expertise in options trading: single-leg and multi-leg strategies, spreads, volatility, and the mechanics of how serious options traders actually operate
- Track record of sales and/or direct customer acquisition success
- Experience working within regulatory compliance constraints to deliver business outcomes
- Ability to build processes and approaches for acquiring clients from a blank slate
- Creative problem solver on behalf of company and clients
- Ability to represent the firm and speak publicly, including in options-trader communities
- Intellectual curiosity
- Active Public member and options trader (sign up today!)

Bonus Points:

- Deep understanding of all tools and asset classes in an active trader's arsenal, with options as your specialty
- Existing relationships or credibility within options-trading communities (Discord, X/FinTwit, Reddit, trading meetups, etc.)
- Experience working with or selling to API-based and high-frequency options traders
- Equity capital markets, trading, and/or research experience
- Experience with markets and financial data (e.g., exchange data, options chains, fundamental data)
- Ability to use modern AI tools to scale your productivity and impact
- Fluency with data (and interest in learning) SQL and/or Python programming languages

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and equity
- Uncapped bonus structure based on sales performance
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
- Generous PTO and parental leave policy
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Opportunities for career growth and professional development

Public is an equal employment opportunity employer to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. We celebrate people of all race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression.

## About Public

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Public is an AI-powered multi-asset investing platform that offers stocks, bonds, crypto, options, ETFs, and alternative assets, with a mission to make wealth building accessible to everyone.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed, $444.5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Leif Abraham, Jannick Malling

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Retail Investing / Brokerage
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual retail investors, from beginners to active traders), with additional offerings for high-net-worth individuals ($500k+ accounts)
- **Mission statement**: "We exist to give people every opportunity to grow their wealth."

## Products & Services
- **Stocks, Bonds, Treasuries, ETFs**: Fractional and full-share trading with access to major US-listed securities.
- **Crypto & Crypto IRAs**: Buy and sell cryptocurrencies; tax-advantaged retirement accounts for crypto holdings.
- **Options Trading**: Options contracts with rebates ($0.06–$0.18 per contract based on volume).
- **Direct Indexing**: Customizable index investing with tax-loss harvesting, starting at $1,000.
- **AI Agents (Agentic Brokerage)**: Automated portfolio management and investing via AI agents that act on the user's behalf.
- **AI Research Assistant**: Ask questions about any stock to get real-time and historical insights, financials, earnings, and analyst ratings.
- **AI-Generated Assets**: Create investable indices from natural language prompts, backtested against the S&P 500.
- **Earnings Hub**: AI-generated earnings call summaries, key moments, and KPIs.
- **Market Briefing**: Daily AI-summarized market developments.
- **Income Hub**: Monthly breakdown of earnings from income-generating assets and forward-looking forecasts.
- **Public API**: Programmatic trading with real-time market data, trade automation, and rebates on options contracts.
- **High-Yield Cash Account**: FDIC-insured up to $5M.
- **Margin Trading**: Base margin rate of 5.65% (lowest among leading brokerages).
- **Queue**: Batch order placement for equities and options with live price editing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $444.5M (as of latest round); estimated annual revenue of $157.1M (LinkedIn estimate).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Tiger Global, Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Maria Sharapova, Tony Hawk, The Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC, J.J. Watt, Scott Galloway, Dick Parsons, Shari Redstone’s Advancit Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: 215 employees (+25.5% YoY); 99.994% platform uptime in 2024; operations in 39 countries; continuous product expansion (AI agents, API, direct indexing, crypto IRAs).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First agentic brokerage**: AI agents that automate and manage portfolios on behalf of users.
- **Lowest margin rates**: Base rate of 5.65% among leading brokerages.
- **Options rebates**: Only platform offering $0.06–$0.18 per contract rebates.
- **AI-native investing experience**: Integrated research assistant, earnings summaries, generated assets, and market briefings.
- **Multi-asset in one place**: Stocks, bonds, crypto, options, ETFs, treasuries, alternative assets, direct indexing.
- **Fractional investing pioneer**: Democratized access to high-priced stocks.
- **Security**: AES 256-bit encryption, TLS 1.2+, two-factor authentication, SIPC insurance up to $500k, FDIC up to $5M.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening AI integration across the entire investing experience (agents, research, portfolio generation).
- Expanding multi-asset offerings (treasuries, bonds, alternative assets like music royalties).
- Growing Crypto IRAs and tax-advantaged investing features.
- Enhancing active trading tools (Queue, margin, options rebates, API).
- Scaling the platform for high-net-worth clients with concierge services.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Deliver our highest standard of work at incredible speed" – a dynamic, fast-paced environment that values diverse perspectives and continuous improvement.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Some roles are US Remote (e.g., Concierge, Member Support), while others are based in New York City office (Director of Concierge & Sales, etc.).
- **Benefits** (per careers page):
  - Fully paid health, dental, vision premiums for all plans.
  - 401(k) matching (4% company match).
  - Paid parental leave (up to 3 months).
  - Generous paid time off + sick leave.
  - In-office meals (daily lunch from curated restaurants).
  - Citi Bike membership.
  - Free parking on premises.
  - Phone and internet stipend.
  - Fitness membership.
  - Equipment stipend.
  - Flexible spending account (FSA).
  - $5,000 travel stipend for reproductive care if unavailable locally.
  - Pension plan (4% monthly contribution).
- **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack, opportunity to build AI-first financial products, direct impact on millions of users.

## Sources
1. [public.com](https://public.com)
2. [public.com/about-us](https://public.com/about-us)
3. [public.com/careers](https://public.com/careers)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/public](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/public)
5. [linkedin.com/company/publichello](https://www.linkedin.com/company/publichello)

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