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ghr.com • HQ: Charlotte, United States • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Commercial & Retail Banks • 1001-5000 employees • Trust B • Hiring 684, 159 new
HQ: Charlotte, United States • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Commercial & Retail Banks • 1001-5000 employees • Trust B • Hiring 684, 159 new
Bank of America is a Charlotte, North Carolina financial services company offering consumer and small business banking, commercial and corporate banking, investment banking and markets, and wealth management through Merrill. One of the largest US banks, it combines a nationwide branch network with Merrill Wealth Management and Merrill Edge, and runs large operations and technology hubs in cities such as Charlotte, Jacksonville, Plano, Chandler and New York. Postings on its board include financial advisors and wealth management client associates, credit underwriters, financial crimes and data analysts, quantitative finance analysts, treasury sales officers and technology roles.
uberfreight.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Supply Chain & Logistics Software • Freight Forwarding • Logistics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2016 • Trust B • Hiring 71, 17 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Supply Chain & Logistics Software • Freight Forwarding • Logistics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2016 • Trust B • Hiring 71, 17 new
Uber Freight is a logistics technology and managed transportation enterprise that connects shippers with a digital network of motor carriers. The platform provides real-time freight matching, automated booking, upfront pricing, and supply chain visibility tools to optimize cargo transit. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, it operates as an end-to-end logistics partner helping businesses streamline freight capacity and fleet operations.
dvtrading.co • HQ: Chicago, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2006 • Trust A • Hiring 74, 1 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2006 • Trust A • Hiring 74, 1 new
DV Trading is a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago that trades for its own account as a liquidity provider on derivatives and securities exchanges worldwide, using quantitative and discretionary strategies. Together with its DV Group affiliates it runs trading and technology teams in Chicago, New York, London, Toronto, Dubai, Miami, Houston and the Bahamas, and its equities business operates as DV Equities. It hires quantitative traders and researchers, software developers and trading operations analysts, including graduate and summer internship programs.
sig.com • HQ: Bala Cynwyd, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1987 • Hiring 222, 7 new
HQ: Bala Cynwyd, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1987 • Hiring 222, 7 new
Susquehanna International Group is a privately held quantitative trading firm headquartered in Bala Cynwyd near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that makes markets and trades across essentially all listed financial products with a focus on derivatives. It was founded in 1987 by a group of college friends who had traded on the floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and it also runs institutional sales, growth equity and venture capital arms, with offices in New York, Chicago, Dublin, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Mumbai. It hires software developers in C++ and C#, quantitative researchers and traders, network and systems engineers, business operations analysts and interns and graduates.
imc.com • HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1989 • Trust B • Hiring 148, 7 new
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1989 • Trust B • Hiring 148, 7 new
IMC Trading is a proprietary trading firm and market maker headquartered in Amsterdam that trades its own capital, providing liquidity across more than 120 trading venues with in-house trading systems, low-latency infrastructure and machine learning models. Founded in 1989 by two traders on the floor of the Amsterdam equity options exchange, it now employs over 2,000 people of more than 70 nationalities in ten offices, including Chicago, New York, London, Zug, Sydney, Mumbai, Seoul and Hong Kong. It recruits quantitative researchers and traders, software, Python and systems engineers, machine learning researchers, and graduates and interns for its campus programmes.
ceritypartners.com • HQ: New York, United States • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust B • Hiring 74, 6 new
HQ: New York, United States • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust B • Hiring 74, 6 new
Cerity Partners is an independent US wealth management and advisory firm serving high-net-worth individuals, families, businesses and nonprofit organisations. It provides investment management, financial planning, tax, trust and estate services, family office support and retirement plan consulting, and has grown through a steady series of mergers with advisory firms across the United States. The firm is headquartered in New York and has been backed by private equity investors including Genstar Capital.
≈ $166k – $308k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years exp • Hybrid (New York, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
jll.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Facilities Management • Real Estate Brokerage • Real Estate Investment • Property Management • Commercial Real Estate • 5000+ employees • Est. 1783 • NYSE: JLL • Trust A • Hiring 5228, 359 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Facilities Management • Real Estate Brokerage • Real Estate Investment • Property Management • Commercial Real Estate • 5000+ employees • Est. 1783 • NYSE: JLL • Trust A • Hiring 5228, 359 new
Jones Lang LaSalle, which trades as JLL, is a commercial real estate services and investment management firm whose oldest predecessor was founded in London in 1783. It advises occupiers and owners on leasing, capital markets transactions, valuation, workplace strategy and project delivery, and manages billions of square feet of property and facilities on their behalf. Headquartered in Chicago and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it operates in more than eighty countries and runs LaSalle Investment Management as its real estate investment arm.
elevancehealth.com • HQ: Indianapolis, United States • Care Coordination & Population Health • Health Insurance & Benefits • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2004 • NYSE: ELV • Trust A • Hiring 134, 38 new
HQ: Indianapolis, United States • Care Coordination & Population Health • Health Insurance & Benefits • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2004 • NYSE: ELV • Trust A • Hiring 134, 38 new
Elevance Health is a health insurance company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, formed in 2004 through the merger of Anthem and WellPoint Health Networks. The company sells medical, pharmacy, dental, and behavioural health plans, operating Blue Cross Blue Shield licensed plans in fourteen states along with the Carelon services and Wellpoint brands. It covers tens of millions of members, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and took its current name in 2022.
gusto.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Payroll Services • HR & Payroll Software • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011 • Trust B • Hiring 95, 2 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Payroll Services • HR & Payroll Software • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011 • Trust B • Hiring 95, 2 new
Gusto is an American company founded in 2011 that provides payroll, benefits administration and human resources software to small businesses, a segment the established payroll processors had served with dated software and opaque pricing. It handles payroll runs and the associated tax filings across all American states, administers health insurance and retirement benefits, and offers employee financial products, positioning itself as the system a small business runs its people on rather than a payroll vendor. Headquartered in San Francisco and valued in the billions, it serves hundreds of thousands of businesses and distributes substantially through accountants.
thehartford.com • HQ: Hartford, United States • Health Insurance & Benefits • Property & Casualty Insurance • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1810 • Trust B • Hiring 201, 17 new
HQ: Hartford, United States • Health Insurance & Benefits • Property & Casualty Insurance • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1810 • Trust B • Hiring 201, 17 new
The Hartford is an insurance and investment company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, offering property and casualty insurance for small and midsize businesses, personal auto and home coverage, and group employee benefits such as disability and life insurance. Founded in 1810 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it provides auto and home programs for AARP members and has large offices in Charlotte, Chicago and Columbus as well as a technology presence in India. It hires underwriters and claims staff, software, data and platform engineers, risk and financial analysts, staff attorneys, sales representatives and summer interns.
sabantoag.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Agricultural Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 8
HQ: Chicago, United States • Agricultural Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 8
Sabanto retrofits existing tractors with an autonomy kit for field work without a driver. Its Steward system handles tillage, seeding and mowing across many tractor brands. The company also runs autonomous farming as a service.
newrelic.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Observability & APM • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2008 • Trust B • Hiring 52, 9 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Observability & APM • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2008 • Trust B • Hiring 52, 9 new
New Relic is a leading observability and software monitoring company that helps organizations track, analyze, and optimize the performance of their digital applications and infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the enterprise provides an all-in-one platform for telemetry data, real-time analytics, and automated incident resolution. Its technology enables software engineers and IT teams to detect system bottlenecks, maintain uptime, and accelerate digital product delivery.
mcdonalds.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Food & Beverages • Catering & Food Services • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1955 • Hiring 125, 15 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Food & Beverages • Catering & Food Services • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1955 • Hiring 125, 15 new
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, McDonald's is the world's largest fast-food restaurant chain by revenue, serving tens of millions of customers daily across more than 100 countries. Operating primarily through an extensive franchise business model, the company serves an iconic menu featuring burgers, french fries, chicken items, breakfast meals, and beverages tailored to regional markets. Through widespread drive-thru infrastructure, integrated mobile applications, and global delivery partnerships, it continues to provide fast and affordable dining experiences on a massive international scale.
quantum-machines.co • HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • HQ: Frederiksberg, Denmark • Quantum Computing Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing • 201-500 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Hiring 61, 3 new
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • HQ: Frederiksberg, Denmark • Quantum Computing Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing • 201-500 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Hiring 61, 3 new
Quantum Machines is a Tel Aviv-based company that builds control and orchestration systems for quantum computers, including the OPX family of real-time quantum controllers, supporting control electronics and the Quantum Orchestration Platform software for qubit experiments. Founded in 2018 and backed by investors including Battery Ventures, TLV Partners, Red Dot Capital and Avigdor Willenz's group, it serves quantum labs and hardware developers worldwide and has teams in Stuttgart, Delft, Ballerup, Chicago and Boston. Hiring covers FPGA, logic design and verification engineers, system and validation engineers, backend and Python developers, and customer support physicists near clients.
okta.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • E-learning • Cybersecurity • Identity Management • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust A • Hiring 372, 24 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • E-learning • Cybersecurity • Identity Management • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust A • Hiring 372, 24 new
Okta is an American identity company founded in 2009 that manages who can log in to what across an organisation's applications, and it built its position by being neutral between the cloud vendors rather than tied to any one of them. Its workforce identity products handle single sign-on, multi-factor authentication and lifecycle management for employees, while Auth0, acquired in 2021, provides the same capability for developers building customer-facing applications. Headquartered in San Francisco and listed on Nasdaq, it suffered a serious support-system breach in 2023 that put its own security practices under scrutiny in a category built entirely on trust.
$224k – $308k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • In office (Bellevue, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Architect
$224k – $308k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • In office (Bellevue, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, United States, Toronto, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Architect
morganstanley.com • HQ: New York, United States • Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms • Asset Management & Funds • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • 5000+ employees • Est. 1935 • NYSE: MS • Trust A • Hiring 705, 8 new
HQ: New York, United States • Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms • Asset Management & Funds • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • 5000+ employees • Est. 1935 • NYSE: MS • Trust A • Hiring 705, 8 new
Headquartered in New York City, New York, Morgan Stanley is a multinational investment bank and financial services enterprise. The firm operates across three primary business divisions: Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management - offering services such as mergers and acquisitions advisory, equity and debt underwriting, sales and trading, market research, and asset management. Managing trillions of dollars in client assets across dozens of countries, it serves corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals as a primary liquidity provider and core market maker in global capital markets.
williamblair.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Asset Management & Funds • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • 201-500 employees • Est. 1935 • Trust B • Hiring 45, 1 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Asset Management & Funds • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • 201-500 employees • Est. 1935 • Trust B • Hiring 45, 1 new
William Blair is an employee-owned investment banking and asset management firm that provides mergers and acquisitions advisory, capital raising and equity research, investment management for institutions and private wealth management for individuals and families. Founded in 1935, it operates offices across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, including London, Frankfurt, Madrid and Amsterdam. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
project44.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Supply Chain & Logistics Software • Supply Chain • Decision Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2014 • Trust B • Hiring 26, 1 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Supply Chain & Logistics Software • Supply Chain • Decision Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2014 • Trust B • Hiring 26, 1 new
Project44 is an enterprise supply chain visibility and decision intelligence platform that tracks global freight across ocean, air, rail, road, and parcel networks. By integrating real-time data from hundreds of thousands of carriers, the platform provides shippers and logistics providers with accurate ETAs, predictive disruption alerts, and automated exception management. Ultimately, it helps global businesses optimize inventory, lower logistics costs, and build more resilient, transparent supply chains.
