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# Open Trading Specialist at MarketAxess

- **Company:** MarketAxess
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://www.marketaxess.com/careers/current-openings/detail/jobs/4712350006?gh_jid=4712350006

## Job description

## About Us

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.

## The Role

The Open Trading Specialist plays a critical role in driving the growth and effectiveness of MarketAxess’s Open Trading marketplace. This individual will act at the intersection of trading, sales, and client engagement—building strong relationships with dealer and client desks while actively facilitating liquidity and trade execution across the platform.

In this role, you will proactively identify trading opportunities, help match supply and demand, and contribute to the overall efficiency and integrity of the Open Trading ecosystem. You will serve as a key point of contact for market participants, providing insight into trading activity, pricing dynamics, and market trends, while ensuring a high-quality experience for both dealers and clients.

Success in this position requires a strong understanding of fixed income markets, a commercial mindset, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will work closely with Sales, Client Services, and Product teams to support strategic initiatives, enhance platform adoption, and drive continued growth of Open Trading globally.

## How You'll Help Take Us There

- Resolution of trade disputes in collaboration with Dealer and Client Sales, and the Customer Services teams.
- Build and strengthen relationships with dealer and client desks to support Open Trading activity.
- Partner with Sales to drive Open Trading growth in the U.S., including supporting strategic initiatives and new product development to expand the global business.
- Develop deeper relationships with sell-side traders, serving as a resource for pricing data and market insights.
- Report Open Trading performance, trends, and insights to management on a regular basis

- Partner with Product and Technology teams to provide feedback on emerging AI-enabled trading, workflow, and analytics capabilities that support the evolution of the Open Trading marketplace.

The candidate will be measured on:

- Contribution to overall team workload and effectiveness.
- Growth in Open Trading participation across the region.
- Ability to mitigate trading risk and uphold MarketAxess’s reputation as a high-quality counterparty.

## What We’re Looking for

- 5+ years of strong product knowledge in fixed income markets.
- Experience in a front office role at a broker/dealer and/or within the interdealer corporate credit trading environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships.
- Demonstrates a high level of accountability, focus, and attention to detail.
- Service-oriented with a strong results-driven mindset.
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure.
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment.

- Demonstrated AI fluency, including the ability to effectively leverage generative AI and intelligent workflow tools to research, analyze information, improve productivity, and enhance decision-making.

- Series 7 & 63 required

## What You Can Expect from Us

- Hybrid Environment: Our employees enjoy a mix of working in the office and from home
- Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office. Plus, our offices are stocked with snacks.
- Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package including vacation and personal days, sick leave and charity days
- Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave
- 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Employees can purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount
- Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more
- Onsite Healthcare: We offer convenient access to world-class care through Mount Sinai at our Hudson Yards location
- Tuition Assistance and Professional Development: Benefit from live and on-demand learning, role-specific training, employee-led Lunch and Learns and guest speakers
- Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $135,000 USD to $185,000 USD. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic in the location in which the candidate is applying.

All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. [MarketAxess Privacy Notice for Candidates](https://www.marketaxess.com/pdf/greenhouse-mktx-privacy-notice.pdf)

[CCPA Notice at Collection for California Employees and Applicants](https://www.marketaxess.com/pdf/CCPA-notice.pdf)

## About MarketAxess

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MarketAxess operates a leading electronic trading platform for global fixed-income markets, connecting institutional investors and broker-dealers to trade corporate bonds, government bonds, and other credit instruments.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Nasdaq: MKTX)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States (55 Hudson Yards)
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Richard McVey

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Fintech – electronic trading, market data, and post-trade services for fixed-income securities.
- **Target customers**: B2B – institutional investors (asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies) and broker-dealers. Over 2,000 firms use the platform.
- **Mission or purpose**: To digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, shifting from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace, improving transparency, efficiency, and competition.

## Products & Services
- **Electronic Trading Platform**: Core SaaS platform enabling request-for-quote (RFQ), portfolio trading, and automated algorithmic execution. Includes the award-winning **Open Trading®** all-to-all marketplace where institutional investors and dealers trade anonymously.
- **Market Data & Analytics**: Intelligent data products, pricing, and analytics for fixed-income markets (e.g., TraX Tape for enriched bond market activity).
- **Post-Trade Services**: Services including trade confirmation, matching, settlement, and regulatory reporting (acquired Regulatory Reporting Hub from Deutsche Börse in 2020, and Trax from Euroclear in 2013).
- **Pragma (acquired 2023)**: Quantitative trading technology provider specializing in algorithmic execution and analytics.
- **RFQ-hub (90% stake acquired 2025)**: Bilateral multi-asset, multi-dealer request-for-quote platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in search results; as a public company, market cap fluctuates (historically valued at ~$20B in 2020).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$846 million** (2025), Net Income of **$246 million** (2025) – [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarketAxess)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: BlackRock (strategic partnership for Open Trading across US, Europe, Asia), MSCI (collaboration on fixed-income indices and ESG data), Broadway Technologies (Treasury trading workflow).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Market share in US corporate bonds: ~17% (2025); 85% of investment-grade and 84% of high-yield electronic trading occurs on MarketAxess.
  - Expansion into Indian government bonds (June 2025).
  - Acquisitions of Pragma (2023), RFQ-hub (2025), MuniBrokers (2021), LiquidityEdge (2019).
  - Employee count grew to 868 (2025) from 744 (2020).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: Large, diversified pool of liquidity with over 2,000 institutional and dealer participants.
- **Open Trading®**: Patented all-to-all marketplace that increases liquidity and anonymity, widely regarded as the preferred solution in global credit markets.
- **First-mover & scale**: Dominant position in US corporate bond electronic trading; strong brand and trust built over 25+ years.
- **Integrated ecosystem**: Full trading lifecycle – execution, data, analytics, and post-trade – creates switching costs for clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digital transformation**: Continuing to electronify fixed-income markets, expanding into new asset classes (munis, Treasuries, emerging markets) and geographies (India, Asia).
- **Technology & automation**: Enhancing algorithmic trading, AI-driven pricing, and portfolio trading capabilities.
- **Data & analytics**: Growing revenue from data products and indices (partnership with MSCI).
- **M&A**: Acquiring complementary platforms to broaden product suite and client reach.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Hybrid workspace (combination of remote and on-site) with offices in New York (HQ), London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and others. Emphasis on innovation, agility, and collaboration – “transforming how the world trades fixed income.”
- **Compensation**: Competitive salaries – e.g., Software Engineer Intern ~$138k/year, Sales ~$130k, Solutions Architect ~$183k (LinkedIn estimates). Benefits include typical financial services perks.
- **Employee ratings**: 3.5/5 on LinkedIn (240 reviews) with Work-Life Balance 4.2, Compensation 3.7, Culture 3.4, Career 3.1.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical teams (204 employees in technical roles). Talent sourced from Bloomberg, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and other top firms.
- **Stability & growth**: Public company with consistent revenue growth (from $191M in 2012 to $846M in 2025), profitable, and expanding globally.
- **Career development**: Opportunities in product management, quantitative research, sales, and engineering. Active job postings for senior roles (Head of Data & Analytics Product, Senior Quantitative Researcher, Senior UX Designer).

## Sources
1. [investor.marketaxess.com](https://investor.marketaxess.com/overview/default.aspx) – Investor relations overview, financial results, presentations
2. [linkedin.com/company/marketaxess](https://www.linkedin.com/company/marketaxess) – Employee data, salary ranges, reviews
3. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarketAxess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarketAxess) – Company history, financials, acquisitions, partnerships
4. [builtin.com/company/marketaxess](https://builtin.com/company/marketaxess) – Culture, perks, hybrid work policy, job listings
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/14776-57](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/14776-57) – Company profile (limited details used)

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