Treasury - Strategy and Special Projects

Description

We’re looking to hire smart generalists to work on strategic projects for Jane Street’s Treasury team. Our team has a mix of qualitative and quantitative work that touches almost all parts of the firm, and is the perfect place for intellectually curious people who are interested in working at the intersection of markets, technology, and business strategy.

Jane Street is one of the world’s biggest trading firms; we help investors buy and sell securities and ensure that markets run efficiently around the globe. The Treasury team helps to manage the billions of dollars the firm borrows to support this trading. We see our job as trying to solve the fascinating and challenging optimization problem of doing this in the best way.

Here are some of the things you may do on our team:

• Work closely with trading desks to understand their challenges and find solutions to facilitate their trading
• Build frameworks to weigh competing tradeoffs (e.g., risk, costs, complexity, and people’s time) and guide our strategy
• Negotiate with our funding counterparties, like large banks
• Figure out when and how to use convex optimization, statistics, and other mathematical techniques to solve our problems, and when to use simpler methods like Fermi estimates or basic arithmetic
• Analyze and visualize complex data using tools like python and SQL
• Design robust and elegant systems alongside our team of our software engineers

Most importantly, you’ll be encouraged to work on projects that you spearhead and create — we’re looking for people who are entrepreneurial and innovative and can go out and find new ways to add value to the firm.

Our team thrives by bringing together smart, ambitious people to collaborate and debate in a welcoming and respectful environment. We have a culture that encourages everyone to have a healthy balance with the rest of their lives outside of work.

We’re open to people from a range of backgrounds – whether you were doing product or strategy at a startup, data science or engineering at a big tech firm, alpha generation or risk at a hedge fund, or something else. We’re more focused on finding a candidate with the qualities below:

• Exceptional analytical skills, including the ability to learn quickly and the aptitude to think algorithmically and mathematically. We’re looking for deep and incisive thinkers who can handle complex, diverse forms of information and find solutions to new problems. We don’t require specific technical background or experience, but because our work ties closely to financial markets, probability, data, and computer systems, it’s crucial that you have the mathematical aptitude to understand these and related areas.
• The ability to get things done, manage projects, and stay organized. We want you to take ownership and leadership of projects — with plenty of mentorship and support along the way. We’re looking for people who can execute effectively, are appropriately pragmatic and can exercise the right level of attention to detail.
• Passion and curiosity about the work we do. We are looking for colleagues who are interested in and excited by the types of projects our team takes on. If you enjoy Matt Levine’s columns, that’s a great signal.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You should be able to distill complex concepts into clear, concise messages for a range of audiences.
• Collaborative, kind, and humble attitude. We challenge each other’s ideas in a collegial way and think it’s important to acknowledge the limits of our own knowledge.

Base salary is $200,000 - $250,000. Base salary is only one part of Jane Street total compensation, which includes an annual discretionary bonus.

Jane Street is an Equal Opportunity Employer