About the Position
We are looking for a highly driven Technical Program Manager (TPM) with working knowledge of Windows and security best practices who can help us organize and coordinate our IT security engineering initiatives. Technology is core to our business, and this role is an opportunity to work alongside our engineers as we optimize and safeguard our mission-critical global trading technology.
You’ll lead our technical projects through their entire lifecycle, including defining goals, developing timelines, tracking milestones, managing engineers’ time, identifying security and operational risks, coordinating with related teams, and giving updates to the larger IT department.
At Jane Street, the “P” in TPM can mean a lot of different things and you may find that your daily work ranges anywhere from a Product Manager to a Program Manager. As a result, you’ll be most successful at Jane Street if you’re comfortable with that sort of ambiguity, and happy to roll your sleeves up and dig into the problem at hand, bringing whatever relevant skills you have to bear—whether through large-scale program management and coordination, product vision, business context, or anything else.
Strong communication skills with a talent for distilling complexity and managing competing priorities will be necessary to collaborate across a wide range of teams at Jane Street—including developers, operations, support staff, and compliance teams—to make sure each project is delivered on time and meets or exceeds stated goals and expectations.
We operate in a flexible problem-solving environment that encourages people to think outside the box when developing processes and tools for the project at hand. We will rely on you to be a strategic thinker who considers the goals of the group and project when problem-solving, and remains open to the creative ideas of others.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or another technical field is preferred, but we're also excited to talk to people who have picked up technical know-how through industry experience
- Experienced with working directly with engineering teams
- Experienced with working to improve and secure various operating system platforms (such as Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Proven capable of managing large-scale tech infrastructure and/or security initiatives
- Familiar with project management planning tools (i.e., Jira, spreadsheets)
- Able to describe detailed problems with brevity and accuracy
- Able to handle competing priorities in a challenging and fast-paced environment
- Organized with strong time management skills
- Enjoys working independently on a small team, learning on the fly, and making decisions that have a real and immediate impact on the firm
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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.
