Equity Options Attorney
Job Summary
Job Description
- Provide real-time legal advice on exchange rules, securities laws, and regulatory interpretation
- Work on options-related regulatory inquiries, examinations, and investigations
- Monitor regulatory developments and summarize impacts for stakeholders
- Provide direct legal support on new business initiatives
- Draft, implement, and maintain policies and procedures
- Coordinate with Legal and Compliance team colleagues across regions
- Contribute to training and policy work
- Help build and foster relationships with options exchanges and other regulators
- Qualified attorney with 10+ years of experience
- At least three years of working in-house within financial services
- Deep understanding of U.S. securities law and exchange rules
- Working knowledge of major global frameworks
- Experienced with supporting and advising on the trading of listed options
1 skill required
Job Details
About the Position
We’re looking for an Equity Options Attorney to join our Legal and Compliance team in New York. In this role, you’ll partner with groups across the firm to provide clear, practical advice across our US and global listed options businesses. You’ll help us navigate evolving regulatory frameworks and support new business initiatives with timely, well‑reasoned guidance.
Additional responsibilities of this role will include:
- Providing real‑time legal advice to our options trading and market making business on exchange rules, securities laws, and other points of regulatory interpretation
- Working on options-related regulatory inquiries, examinations, and investigations
- Monitoring regulatory developments with a focus on options-related rulemakings and interpretations, and summarizing impacts for stakeholders
- Providing direct legal support to the desk on new business initiatives
- Drafting, implementing, and maintaining policies and procedures, and advising on the build-out and maintenance of control frameworks
- Coordinating with our Legal and Compliance team colleagues across regions to ensure consistent, scalable approaches
- Contributing to training and policy work, including engagements with industry groups where appropriate
- Helping to build and foster relationships with options exchanges and other regulators
About You
- Qualified attorney with 10+ years of experience and at least three years of working in‑house within financial services
- Have a deep understanding of U.S. securities law and exchange rules, with a working knowledge of major global frameworks
- Experienced with supporting and advising on the trading of listed options
- Clear, concise communicator who can translate complex rules into practical guidance
- Organized self‑starter who can manage competing priorities and make sound decisions under time pressure
- Discreet, trustworthy, and comfortable working on problems that rarely have clean, definitive answers
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.
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About The Company
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.
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