We’re looking for an Architect to help us design, build, and refine our global offices. Based in our New York headquarters, you will work with colleagues across three continents to design spaces that support how Jane Street works.
You’ll work closely with external architects and consultants to shape projects from early design through construction. You’ll set design priorities, review concepts and drawings, and explore alternatives with the project team to make sure the spaces we build meet our needs.
Internally, you will take ownership of projects and workstreams from early planning through design, procurement, construction, closeout, and post-occupancy. This will require collaborating closely with colleagues to turn competing requirements into practical recommendations that balance design quality, budget, schedule, constructability, resilience, and long-term operating and maintenance needs.
We take particular pride in these projects because we get to work in the spaces we build. Every day is an opportunity to help our colleagues do their best work, and we welcome ideas that challenge how things have been done before.
Additional responsibilities of this role will include:
- Establishing project briefs, design priorities, scopes, budgets, schedules, and decision processes with colleagues
- Developing initial test fits and reviewing and redlining consultant concepts, layouts, drawings, specifications, and details
- Coordinating internal teams, external consultants, and contractors to ensure recommendations work across disciplines and reflect Jane Street’s priorities
- Managing specialist partners, including furniture vendors, food service consultants, permitting consultants, artists, fabricators, and workplace strategists
- Translating input from users, consultants, vendors, and internal teams into practical recommendations that balance design concept and user experience with constructability, schedule, budget, and long-term flexibility
- Working with creative colleagues and specialist partners on materials, finishes, furniture, wayfinding, and installations
- Overseeing construction administration, including RFIs, submittals, mockups, field observations, change proposals, punch lists, and closeout
- Tracking decisions and risks, resolving open issues, and applying lessons from completed projects to future designs, standards, and ways of working
- Have 7+ years of experience in workplace architecture and project delivery, with strong design and technical skills, including interior detailing and a working knowledge of building codes
- Have an instinct for designing spaces that feel like us: curious in their conception, rigorous in their logic, and thoughtful in every detail
- Comfortable taking responsibility for projects and workstreams, managing competing priorities, and coordinating work across regions
- Able to delegate work to consultants and hold them accountable without taking over their responsibilities
- Can synthesize design, technical, financial, and operational input into practical recommendations, identifying solutions rather than simply documenting problems
- Can make sound decisions with incomplete or changing information and maintain credible contingency plans
- Can communicate clearly with designers, contractors, and colleagues, seek out others’ expertise, and challenge requirements constructively
- Curious about new tools, including AI, and how they can streamline workflows and improve project quality
- Proficiency with Bluebeam, Revit, AutoCAD, and Excel is preferred
- Architectural licensure is preferred
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in workplace architecture and project delivery
- Strong design and technical skills, including interior detailing
- Working knowledge of building codes
- Ability to take ownership of projects and workstreams while managing competing priorities
- Ability to coordinate internal teams, consultants, vendors, and contractors
- Ability to synthesize design, technical, financial, and operational input into practical recommendations
- Ability to make sound decisions with incomplete or changing information
- Clear communication with designers, contractors, and colleagues
- Proficiency with Bluebeam, Revit, AutoCAD, and Excel
- Architectural licensure
Jane Street Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jane Street and has not been reviewed or approved by Jane Street.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are offered at no cost for employees and dependents, with robust onsite care including primary care, physical therapy, and mental‑health therapy. Private onsite gyms and counseling resources further reinforce the health focus.
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Parental & Family Support — Fully paid parental leave for all parents, with additional time for birth parents, is highlighted alongside expanded fertility benefits and well‑equipped nursing suites. These offerings position family support as a core element of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily free meals and snacks, private onsite gyms, recreation spaces, and rich learning programs (including tuition reimbursement and company classes) elevate day‑to‑day quality of life. Onsite medical suites and speaker series add to the lifestyle and development mix.
Jane Street Insights
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.
