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title: 'Campus Recruitment & HR Specialist at Maven'
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# Campus Recruitment & HR Specialist at Maven

- **Company:** Maven
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mavensecuritiesholdingltd/jobs/8132023

## Job description

Campus Recruitment & HR Specialist, Amsterdam

As an Campus Recruitment & HR Specialist, you'll play a key role in delivering Maven's early careers strategy across the Netherlands and Europe while owning the onboarding experience for the Amsterdam office. Maven's Emerging Talent Team is responsible for the attraction, selection and development of our intern and graduate programmes across our Amsterdam, London, and Chicago offices. Our vision is to support everyone to reach their potential.

Our Core HR team partners closely with the business to ensure every new joiner has a smooth and welcoming start, and that employees are well supported throughout their time at Maven.

This is a predominantly Emerging Talent role, overseeing our Amsterdam intern and graduate programmes while contributing to wider People initiatives that support employee experience.

## What you’re going to do

Emerging Talent:

- Build and maintain strategic partnerships with target universities, student societies, and external partners across the Netherlands and Europe, working closely with colleagues to attract exceptional early careers talent
- Partner with the Emerging Talent team and hiring managers to to deliver the recruitment process for Intern and Graduate programmes, including attraction, selection, offer management, and candidate engagement
- Collaborate with stakeholders to continuously review and improve recruitment processes, using data, market insights and stakeholder feedback to ensure they remain competitive and aligned with business needs
- Plan and deliver campus events, careers fairs and employer branding initiatives, collaborating with internal teams and external partners to strengthen Maven’s brand presence
- Work closely with hiring managers, the Head of Emerging Talent and the Emerging Talent Lead to deliver Maven’s early careers talent strategy
- Track, analyse and communicate recruitment metrics, pipeline performance and the return on investment of attraction initiatives, making recommendations to improve decision-making across the team
- Plan the delivery of graduate and intern training programmes, ensuring assessment metrics, support mechanisms, and growth opportunities are in place

HR / People:

- Partner with the Emerging Talent/Talent Acquisition team, Core HR  and Operations Manager to create a market-leading onboarding experience for all candidates within the Amsterdam region
- Own the local visa process, including renewals and new applications, ensuring compliance with Dutch immigration requirements
- Support new hire onboarding logistics for the Amsterdam office — contracts, documentation, inductions, and coordination with IT/facilities
- Act as a local point of contact for employee queries on HR policies and Dutch employment practices, escalating where needed

## What we’re looking for

- Expertise in recruiting and developing early careers talent, including interns and graduates
- Exposure to HR responsibilities, or a genuine interest in developing broader HR experience
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge at all levels
- Ability to act as a compelling and energetic ambassador for Maven, bringing our culture, career opportunities and employee proposition to life and inspiring prospective candidates to join us
- Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- A data-driven approach, using insights and metrics to inform decisions and measure success
- Enthusiasm for employer branding and representing Maven at universities, networking events and on campus
- A genuine interest in exploring and applying AI tools to automate processes, identify efficiencies, and improve ways of working
- Thorough knowledge of the Netherlands talent market is crucial, ideally within Emerging Talent in a similar high-performing environment
- Fluency in English is required; Dutch language skills are an advantage

What we offer:

- Opportunity to join a fast growing global firm where your work will have meaningful impact
- Annual employee learning budget with access to mentorship, training, and development resources
- A collaborative and highly rewarding culture with an informal dress code and regular social events
- Competitive compensation package plus eligibility for annual discretionary bonuses
- Maven has a number of in-house AI tools, expert-led working groups, and regular employee AI training. We’re committed to providing our employees with market leading technologies for automation, performance and efficiency

## About Maven

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Maven Securities is a market-leading proprietary trading firm that allocates internal capital between discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies across global financial markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading, Market Making, Technology
- Target customers: B2B (institutional), with the firm trading only its own capital (no external clients)
- Mission or purpose statement: To be a market-leading proprietary trading business committed to realizing the full potential of its people, combining effective risk management with advanced technology to achieve trading excellence and consistent returns.

## Products & Services
Maven operates as a multi-strategy proprietary trading firm. Its core activities include:
- **Discretionary Trading**: Fundamental long/short equity strategies across global markets, managed by Portfolio Managers.
- **Systematic Trading**: Quantitative strategies driven by data, research, and algorithms, including systematic equities.
- **Market Making**: Providing liquidity in options and other financial instruments across European, US, and Asian markets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $10.1M (estimated by LinkedIn); Total Funding: Not applicable (bootstrapped with internal capital)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not applicable (privately held, uses only group capital)
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount of 312 employees, with a yearly growth of +13.6% (+48 people) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities)
    - Active job postings have increased by +217.6% year-over-year [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities)
    - Operates in 11 countries across 10 offices, including London (HQ), New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Monaco, and Singapore [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities)
    - Strong talent pipeline from top competitors like Optiver, IMC Trading, Jane Street, and Morgan Stanley [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pure Proprietary Trading**: Maven trades only its own capital, eliminating conflicts of interest and allowing for long-term strategic thinking without external pressure.
- **Technology-First Approach**: The firm considers itself as much a technology firm as a trading firm, investing heavily in advanced technology, data, and infrastructure to empower its traders and strategies [mavensecurities.com](https://www.mavensecurities.com/about-us/).
- **Multi-Strategy Platform**: The ability to allocate capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies provides diversification and resilience.
- **Strong Talent Magnet**: Attracts top talent from leading trading and financial firms globally, indicating a strong reputation and competitive compensation culture [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities).
- **Conservative Risk Management**: Meticulous and attentive execution paired with conservative risk management is a core part of their operational philosophy [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities).

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued Global Expansion**: Opening and growing offices in key financial hubs like Chicago, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong, indicating a focus on capturing market share in US and Asian markets.
- **Technology Investment**: Heavy ongoing investment in technology roles (C++, Python, FPGA, Kubernetes, Linux, Network Engineering) to maintain a competitive edge in speed, data analysis, and infrastructure [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mavensecuritiesholdingltd).
- **Talent Acquisition**: A massive surge in hiring (+1700% monthly job posting trend) suggests aggressive scaling across all areas, particularly in quantitative research, trading, and technology [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities).
- **ESG and DEI Commitment**: Actively allocating capital and employee time to environmental, societal, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, signaling a focus on sustainable and ethical growth [mavensecurities.com](https://www.mavensecurities.com/about-us/).

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Environment**: Work directly with internal capital on sophisticated trading strategies, with a flat structure that values autonomy and ownership.
- **Technology-Driven Culture**: A strong emphasis on engineering and technology as core to the business, offering challenging roles in C++, Python, FPGA, and platform engineering.
- **Global Opportunities**: With offices in London, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Monaco, there are opportunities for international mobility and exposure to global markets.
- **Strong Compensation**: Competitive compensation is implied by the firm's ability to attract talent from top-tier firms like Jane Street, Optiver, and Goldman Sachs [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities).
- **Values-Driven**: The firm explicitly values integrity, humility, creativity, and discipline, aiming to balance bold ambition with a modest and supportive culture [mavensecurities.com](https://www.mavensecurities.com/our-values/).
- **Work Policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of trading (roles in Chicago, London, Amsterdam, New York, and Hong Kong are clearly location-specific).
- **Employee Rating**: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (108 reviews), with high marks for Work-Life (3.9), Compensation (3.8), and Culture (3.5) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities).

## Sources
1. [Maven Securities - About Us](https://www.mavensecurities.com/about-us/)
2. [Maven Securities - Our Values](https://www.mavensecurities.com/our-values/)
3. [Maven Securities - Job Openings (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mavensecuritiesholdingltd)
4. [Maven Securities - LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-securities)

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