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Sr Dir Clearing Policy & Market Structure

CME Group

Company websitecmegroup.com (CME Group, opens in new tab)

Base salary $195,400  to $325,600

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in United States

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  • LocationUnited States
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About this job

As the Senior Director of Clearing Policy & Market Structure, you will act as a strategic architect of global clearing policy and market structure with an emphasis on the impacts of bank capital requirements. This highly visible role requires you to influence central clearing structures for securities and derivatives both in the United States and globally, ensuring that our clearing services and market participants are optimally positioned amidst evolving bank capital standards and accounting treatments. You will drive enterprise-wide advocacy and serve as a premier thought leader on clearing market structure, representing CME Group’s interests to prudential policymakers and market participants.

What You’ll Get

  • A supportive environment fostering career progression, continuous learning, and an inclusive culture.
  • Broad exposure to CME's diverse products, asset classes, and cross-functional teams.
  • A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Explore our full range of benefits

What You’ll Do

  • Influence clearing policy and market structures globally and domestically for centrally cleared securities and derivatives.
  • Evaluate the potential impact of clearing structure proposals and bank capital standards on CME Group’s clearing services, its clearing members, and clients.
  • Educate internal and external stakeholders, including prudential policymakers, on the intricacies of centrally cleared market structures for securities and derivatives and related impacts of the developments in bank capital requirements.
  • Champion thought leadership in enhancing our clearing services to align with derivatives and securities market structures, considering core clearing, accounting treatment, and bank capital policy challenges.
  • Represent CME Group’s interests on external panels and roundtables.
  • Manage the clearing house’s foreign and domestic regulatory reporting obligations, collaborating closely with data owners and compliance to ensure stringent accuracy and quality.
  • Advise and mentor clearing house team members on clearing policy and market structure, particularly bank capital requirements, to ensure seamless cross-functional coordination.
  • Lead enterprise-wide projects focused on implementing innovative, capital-saving solutions for CME Group’s clients.

What You’ll Bring

  • Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Public Policy, Legal Studies, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrate 10–12+ years of progressive leadership within a bank / tier-one clearing member, financial market infrastructure, central counterparty, or regulatory body  market structure and capital policy teams.
  • Apply comprehensive mastery of SEC and CFTC regulations, particularly clearing agency rules under SEC Rule 17ad-22 and clearing organization regulations under CFTC Part 39 Regulations.
  • Exhibit executive-level oral and written communication, highly-detailed oriented nature, cross-functional orchestration, and technical reporting presentation skills.
  • Leverage deep applied knowledge of bank capital requirements and accounting treatments impacting centrally cleared derivatives and securities markets.

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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay ranges for this role based on location are: Chicago: $195,400-$325,600 New York/New Jersey: $195,400-$325,600. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

Important Notice: Recruitment fraud is on the rise, with scammers using misleading promises of job offers and interviews to solicit money and personal information from job seekers. CME Group adheres to established procedures designed to maintain trust, confidence and security throughout our recruitment process. Learn more here.

Source: CME Group on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($195,400) is above 66% of the 83 Legal roles in Illinois listed on this site. Their median floor is $160,100; the middle half runs from $123,500 to $214,600.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live CME Group roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live CME Group roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Sr Dir Clearing Policy & Market Structure (this listing)$195,400 - $325,600
Executive Director, Compensation$195,400 - $325,600
Principal Enterprise Architect$186,200 - $310,300
Director and Asst Gen Cnsl - Litigation and Employment$160,600 - $267,600
Director, Financial Research and New Product Development$160,300 - $267,100
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Architecture Foundry$145,700 - $242,900
Sr AI Solutions Specialist - Architecture Foundry$145,700 - $242,900

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All CME Group roles · How to read the bar

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2026-11-04
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Location as the employer wrote it: Chicago - 20 S. Wacker • New York - 300 Vesey Street

ognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay ranges for this role based on location are: Chicago: $195,400-$325,600 New York/New Jersey: $195,400-$325,600. Actual salary offer

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