About the Position
We are looking for an Attorney to join our Legal and Compliance team and work on a variety of interesting projects. To thrive in this role, you will need to be a strong communicator who would take initiative and enjoy the challenge of analyzing the novel legal questions facing Jane Street as we grow.
Our firm trades continuously on more than 200 electronic exchanges across three continents, and it’s our team’s responsibility to protect our colleagues as they focus on their daily work. We advise on everything from real-time questions about how and where we trade, to helping teams navigate updates to regulatory environments, to negotiating contracts and structuring our legal entities as we expand into new products and markets worldwide.
Day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Shaping our internal governance documents and structural set-up
- Working on our external capital raises
- Collaborating with our internal teams (and external counsel where necessary) to ensure that our legal risks are managed properly
- Providing time-sensitive legal advice on questions related to regulatory interpretation and compliance controls as they arise
- Working with our trading desks to review and comment on legal documents associated with new trading flows, and to keep new trading initiatives compliant
We work in a dynamic, highly collaborative environment where new ideas and business areas are constantly being explored. This is an exciting chance to make an immediate impact on the big-picture issues that are literally shaping the future of the firm.
About You
- Have 3+ years of experience in a law firm
- Have a Juris Doctor (JD) degree and New York Bar admission (or is able to qualify)
- Able to understand a complex waterfall in an operating agreement (and more broadly embrace work with quantitative aspects)
- Familiar with tax concepts; able to work well with colleagues in tax, HR, and accounting
- Strong communicator; able to distill complex legal concepts into simple, actionable recommendations and provide guidance under time-sensitive conditions
- Have pragmatic commercial acumen and impeccable business judgment
- Able to handle competing priorities in a challenging, fast-paced, and often ambiguous environment
- Self-starter who can take initiative and work independently, while also appreciating the collaborative nature of our firm and establishing strong cross-functional partnerships
- Can demonstrate project planning and organizational skills, especially with hands-on deal management
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected].
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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.
