Senior Recruiter in London

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. 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.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Recruiter to join our high-performing global Talent Acquisition team. This role will focus on hiring across business and commercial functions, with a particular emphasis on attracting talent with experience in fixed income, trading, capital markets, and financial services. Reporting to the Global Head of Recruiting, this is a highly visible opportunity for a recruiter who brings strong market knowledge, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a proactive, execution-focused approach. The successful candidate will play an important role in helping MarketAxess attract exceptional talent while acting as a trusted partner to hiring managers and business leaders.

This is an ideal opportunity for a recruiter who understands the dynamics of the financial market’s talent landscape, is confident engaging with front-office and business stakeholders and can represent the MarketAxess story in a compelling and credible way to candidates. The role also requires a strong interest in how AI and data insights can improve candidate engagement and their overall experience.

What You’ll Get to Do

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle across assigned roles, from intake briefing and market mapping through sourcing, assessment, offer management, and onboarding partnership.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to understand hiring priorities, define role requirements, and develop effective search strategies.
• Recruit for roles with a focus on non-technical hiring, particularly those aligned to sales, trading, corporate services, operations, and other business functions.
• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing insight into market conditions, talent availability, candidate expectations, and competitive hiring trends.
• Create compelling and targeted job descriptions and ensure a high-quality, consistent candidate and interviewer experience.
• Use innovative sourcing tools and data-driven recruiting practices to identify and engage high-caliber talent.
• Maintain accurate candidate and pipeline activity within the Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse) to support data integrity and reporting.
• Contribute to the continued success of a lean, collaborative, and high-performing global recruitment team, bringing ideas, energy, and a continuous improvement mindset.

What We’re Looking for

• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally within financial services, capital markets, trading, fixed income, or FinTech environments.
• Strong understanding of the global hiring market, with experience recruiting for non-technical business roles.
• Demonstrated success hiring talent with backgrounds in fixed income, trading, markets, or related financial services disciplines.
• A proactive, self-starting approach, with the ability to manage multiple searches and stakeholder relationships effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to partner with senior hiring managers and provide credible market insight.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage numerous candidates, interview processes, and hiring priorities simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly and confidently articulate the MarketAxess value proposition, business model, growth story, and career opportunities to candidates.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.

What You Can Expect from Us

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's.
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines.
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days.
• Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service.
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a “Share Incentive” plan.
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences.

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is £80,000 GBP to £110,000 GBP. 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.

Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success – it's how we got to where we are and how we’ll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Human Resources work in the office 3 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term.