Macro Analyst

2 Hours ago • 3 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Macro Analyst will assist the global trading team in developing innovative methods by integrating quantitative and fundamental analysis into Jane Street's core trading strategies. Responsibilities include preparing coverage of macro fundamental events and special situations, conducting scenario and analysis for scheduled macro events, giving real-time evaluation of unanticipated macro news, engaging in detailed technical discussions with traders, interacting with sell-side sales and research contacts globally, and running longer-term research on specific macro topics. The role requires the ability to communicate effectively, analyze data, and provide insights in a fast-paced environment.
Must have:
  • Strong quantitative background and command of probability.
  • Able to work and communicate with traders in a fast-paced environment.
  • 3+ years of experience covering macro within trading, financial services, or governmental institutions.
  • Current with relevant published research and comfortable pushing into less explored areas.
  • Able to combine datasets, statistical models, and broader economic understanding to tackle big questions.
Good to have:
  • Skills in programming (e.g., Python) are a plus.

Job Details

About the Position

We are looking for an experienced Macro Analyst to help our global trading team develop innovative ways to overlay quantitative and fundamental analysis onto Jane Street’s core trading strategies. Our day-to-day work is diverse, and your focus on global macro topics will help us expand our trading opportunities.

Responsibilities of this role will include but are not limited to:

  • Helping to prepare coverage of macro fundamental events and special situations
    • Conducting scenario EVs and analysis for scheduled macro events
    • Giving real-time EVs for unanticipated macro news; precisely and rapidly communicating valuation changes and investment theses to our global trading teams 
  • Engaging in detailed, technical discussions with traders by providing macro updates and quantitative analyses, presenting your logic and reasoning grounded in data, numbers, probabilities, and statistical insights, and addressing any follow-up questions with clarity and precision
  • Interacting with sell-side sales and research contacts globally, aggregating broker notes, and developing and summarizing opinions (having your own broker contacts is a plus)
  • Running longer-term research on specific macro topics, ranging from correctly framing the questions and gathering the data (both by talking to external people and looking up historical data), to analyzing the findings and coming up with well-reasoned conclusions and recommendations (both quantitative and qualitative)

About You

  • Have a strong quantitative background and command of probability
  • Able to comfortably work and communicate with traders in a fast-paced environment, and explain and defend your thinking to a variety of audiences (turnaround time for an answer on a concrete EV number could be under 5 minutes)
  • Have 3+ years of experience covering macro within trading, financial services, or governmental institutions
  • Current with relevant published research and comfortable pushing into less explored areas
  • Able to work nimbly and combine datasets, statistical models, and broader economic understanding to tackle big questions
  • Skills in programming (e.g., Python) are a plus

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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