L/S Data Analyst - US

Point72 Asset Management, L.P; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully-paid health care benefits

Generous parental and family leave

Tuition assistance

401(k) savings program

Mental and physical wellness programs

Job summary

Point72 Asset Management, L.P in New York seeks a data analyst to drive innovation within investing teams. This role involves leveraging diverse data for investment theses, developing predictive models, and optimizing data systems.

The ideal candidate has a strong quantitative background, coding skills in Python or R, and a collaborative spirit. Point72 offers comprehensive health benefits, supportive policies, and a commitment to employee development.

Qualifications

• Quantitative ability demonstrated through coursework or equivalent experience.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data, including time-series data.
• Strong understanding of statistical concepts applied to large-scale data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Compliance-approved data to influence investment decisions.
• Design and maintain data products and predictive models.
• Develop automated systems to analyze diverse data sets in real-time.

Skills

Quantitative ability

Strong coding skills (Python, R)

Data visualization skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Teamwork and communication

Education

Undergraduate degree or higher

Tools

Statistical concepts

Version control (Git)

Job description

A Career with Point72’s Fundamental Equities Business

Fundamental Equities is Point72’s largest and longest-tenured investing business. For more than 30 years, we have equipped our analysts and portfolio managers with the resources, autonomy, and support we believe they need to build exceptional careers that reflect their unique strengths as investors.

We maintain a high bar for hiring and make a deep, long‑term investment in our talent—the tenure of our people reflects our focus on understanding and underwriting process, not just looking at yesterday’s PnL.

Steve Cohen started this firm as an equities investor and has maintained a lifelong commitment to helping the best in our industry get even better. We have a strong track record of identifying, supporting, and advancing our homegrown talent—as of this posting, more than half of the PMs launched through our emerging manager program, Point72 LaunchPoint, were previously analysts at our firm. This commitment is further reinforced through dedicated coaching and development programs designed to help accelerate growth at every phase of an analyst’s career.

For people with the passion and drive to become truly great equities investors, Point72 offers an environment unlike any other.

What You’ll Do

As a data analyst embedded in an investing team, you will help drive innovation by leveraging a variety of data sources and systems. You will work directly with a portfolio manager and their team of research analysts to connect data and fundamental research. Your work will support investment theses and help inform investment decisions. Specifically, you will:

• Help analyze a broad universe of Compliance‑approved data to directly influence idea generation and investment decisions, with an emphasis on equities.
• Design, build, and maintain data products and predictive models that enable analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs) and forward‑looking metrics relevant to your specific sector.
• Investigate and explore innovative approaches to extract meaningful information from complex datasets.
• Develop agile, automated systems that rapidly ingest, synthesize, and analyze diverse sets of information in real‑time, producing actionable insights to support timely decision‑making.
• Optimize and scale existing data infrastructure to enhance performance, reliability, and adaptability in handling complex, high‑volume data streams.
• Develop and maintain high‑quality, efficient, and modular code, creating well‑documented custom libraries and data pipelines that enhance the team’s analytical capabilities and ensure reproducibility of results.
• Stay on top of the newest technologies approved for use across the firm.
• Partner with Compliance on various initiatives such as approved data sources, permissibility of systems, and analytics.

What’s Required

• Undergraduate degree or higher.
• Quantitative ability as demonstrated through relevant coursework or work equivalent.
• Experience working with diverse data types including structured, unstructured (e.g., text), and time‑series data.
• Strong understanding of statistical concepts and their application to large‑scale data analysis, with an interest in applying these skills to financial datasets.
• Strong coding skills in a high‑level programming language (e.g., Python, R, or similar). Familiarity with version control systems (such as Git) and collaborative development practices.
• Strong data visualization skills, with experience in creating informative visualizations using coding languages like Python or R.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to approach complex issues systematically and creatively. Demonstrated capacity to translate business questions into data‑driven solutions.
• Team player with an entrepreneurial spirit and good communication skills.
• Deep intellectual curiosity and lifelong‑learning mindset.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

We Take Care of Our People

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well‑being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully‑paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee‑led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor‑led culture and committing to our people’s long‑term growth. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000-$240,000 (USD), which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.