Optiver’s new Sydney office at 275 Kent Street, is a purpose-built workplace designed to accelerate innovation, attract top talent, and strengthen the firm’s role as a leading market maker and liquidity provider in the Asia Pacific region.

A workspace built for innovation

Spanning more than 9,000 square metres across five floors, the regional headquarters doubles the footprint of Optiver’s previous Sydney location.

The office has been carefully designed to integrate advanced trading technology, with spaces that support creativity, collaboration, and wellbeing.

Key features include:

• A central five-storey staircase, inspired by Optiver’s delta logo, serving as both an architectural statement and a catalyst for cross-team collaboration.
• State-of-the-art trading floors and tech-enabled breakout zones, intentionally designed to offer traders, engineers, and researchers the tools to deliver peak performance in one of the world’s most competitive industries.
• Dedicated spaces for quiet focus, wellness, and recreation. From meditation rooms to a games and entertainment zone, the space balances the intensity of trading with restorative experiences.

With a focus on natural light, biophilic elements, and movement, the office has been built to achieve Platinum WELL Certification, the highest global standard for workplace wellbeing.

The move reflects Optiver’s commitment to creating workplaces that empower people to do their best work, whether they’re building models, writing code, or trading global markets.

Powering the future of trading

Optiver’s new Sydney hub brings together traders, engineers, and researchers to push the boundaries of global markets. With investments in AI, machine learning, and quantitative research, the firm is scaling its ability to sharpen trading strategies, provide liquidity and ensure fairer, more efficient markets.

Optiver has made significant investments in high-performance computing infrastructure, including a dedicated supercomputing cluster and industry-leading GPU capacity (NVIDIA A100/H100), to accelerate model training, data workflows and AI deployment.

This in-house capability ensures that innovation can move rapidly from research to production, giving teams the speed and scale needed in dynamic markets.

As a technology-driven trading firm, Optiver is focused on integrating innovation into every aspect of its business, from pricing complex derivatives in real-time to building fully automated trading systems. This office is the foundation for scaling that ambition across the Asia-Pacific region.

Investing in future leaders

The headquarters also plays a central role in attracting and developing future leaders in trading and technology.

Nearly 70 graduates will join the Sydney team in 2025, adding to Optiver’s pipeline of top talent. The graduates will benefit from hands-on experience, mentorship and the opportunity to contribute directly to trading, engineering and research projects from day one.

The office houses a dedicated hybrid training space that embodies Optiver’s culture of continuous learning, equipped with ceiling microphones for audience participation, lecture style seats with fold away desks, dual presentation screens, and a lectern for speakers.  

Combined with Optiver’s award-winning education programs, this facility ensures employees at every stage of their career have access to the tools, resources and environment they need to learn, grow and thrive.

Deep roots, ambitious future

Having established its first Sydney office in 1996, Optiver has grown to 800 employees across six APAC locations, and more than 2,000 globally.

The new headquarters not only doubles the footprint of its previous office, but also reflects Optiver’s long-term investment in the region. With generous trading floors, a collaborative design, and a strong focus on people and wellbeing, the office provides the scale and platform for continued growth in Asia-Pacific.

It also signals Optiver’s broader ambition to deepen its contribution in the global markets, from providing liquidity in derivatives, stocks and ETFs, to scaling its presence in fast-growing economies such as India and China.

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About Optiver

Optiver is a global market maker with offices in Amsterdam, London, Chicago, Austin, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. Founded in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.