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Index Exotics Trader

Price and trade exotic equity-option structures in UBS’s New York business. The desk provides liquidity and manages the higher-order risks of structured products.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Quote exotic equity payoffs and structured notes.
Hedge option exposures and monitor nonlinear risk changes.
Develop trade ideas with structuring and quantitative colleagues.

What they ask for

Required

Exotic payoff valuation
Option trading and hedging
Higher-order risk measures
Programming
Analytical academic background

Education: Undergraduate or master’s in computational finance, mathematics, engineering or computing.
Experience: Ideally at least 2 years on a trading or quant desk.
Markets: equities, options

How to prepare

Price an exotic equity payoff and test model sensitivities.
Explain vega, skew and correlation risks of structured notes.
Build a hedge analysis across large market moves.

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with UBS and doesn’t handle applications.