Wolverine Trading Mission, Purpose & Impact

Tell us about your company’s mission. How does that mission influence the company culture? Did that mission impact your decision to join the team?

Wolverine provides liquidity, technology and investment opportunities to our customers with unwavering integrity. We innovate and compete in market — making, agency execution and asset management, with a special focus in equity derivatives markets.

Wolverine’s culture is collaborative and long-term oriented. We seek colleagues who want to develop their careers and relationships at Wolverine in terms of decades, not years. We empower our colleagues to grow at the firm. 

Wolverine’s mission and culture struck me when I started as an intern 15 years ago and it absolutely impacted my decisions throughout my career. First, my colleagues are [the most] down-to-earth, loyal, humble people I’ve met in financial markets. Second, our core competency in options and derivatives trading empowers them and our customers to make better decisions in work and in life.

From your perspective, how does your work connect to the overall company mission?

Wolverine Execution Services, our agency broker and dealer, facilitates electronic trading on behalf of retail customers, e.g., everyday Americans. WEX delivers millions of dollars of savings to retail customers every day in a highly competitive market, via those household — name brokers that enable ordinary people to trade with few frictions on their phone or laptop. 

My role is to interface with these retail broker clients and provide nuanced insight into trade execution, market structure, potential repercussions of new industry proposals and more. I also represent the Firm in our relationships with the exchanges on which our customers trade.

What advice would you give a jobseeker hoping to join your company?

I would advise you to be yourself, rigorously. Coming from a quantitative background, I regularly see resumes that claim mastery of every novel statistical method, all the buzzwords from AI to LLM to ML and so on. 

While we have prerequisites for many job opportunities, we favor fundamental passion for and competence in whatever problem space you study, whether you come from a background in accounting, chemical engineering or philosophy. Our most successful hires bring that passion to learn and solve novel problems into the complex world of financial markets.