About the Position
We’re looking for an Alternative Data Strategist who can research and procure alternative datasets. At Jane Street, high-quality data is essential to the work we do.
You will partner closely with traders, researchers, and other internal users to understand what data Jane Street needs, and to turn those needs into datasets we use in production.
You'll also vet external data vendors to understand what it is they’re selling and whether we should be interested, negotiate contract terms and pricing, and carefully manage our ongoing relationships with them. Along the way, you'll work extensively with our Data Engineering and Legal teams.
About You
- Professionally experienced with sourcing, researching, and procuring alternative datasets
- Able to multi-task and context-switch regularly throughout the day
- Able to form strong relationships with internal and external business partners
- Strong written and verbal communicator
- Inquisitive and eager to learn
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected].
What We Do
Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people.
Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar.
Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles.
We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day.
People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
