Operations Specialist

Janestreet; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street is seeking a proactive Operations professional to join our team, contributing to smooth information and asset flow within the firm and with external partners.

You'll start embedded in an Operations group, learning day-to-day processes, products, and context. Over time, you'll drive efficiency by redesigning processes, removing handoffs, and exploring AI-enabled improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of experience in operations, engineering, analytics, consulting, or a related field.
• Notice inefficiencies and gaps in teams, tools, and processes; take initiative to improve them.
• Pragmatic about problem-solving and think carefully about which solution best fits your problem (e.g., spreadsheets, scripts, AI).
• Comfortable digging into complex ideas and making them clear for others.
• Self-starter and able to set your own direction in ambiguous situations.
• Humble about what you know and don't know, and not afraid to ask questions.

Responsibilities

• Embedded within an Operations team to learn day-to-day work while running processes and understanding products.
• Identify and design improvements to workflows, tools, and handoffs.
• Redesign reconciliation processes and explore AI-enabled solutions where beneficial.
• Move toward a process-improvement focus and shepherd changes from design through adoption.
• Develop a broad view of Operations through cross-team problems and real-world context.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical thinking

Self-starter

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Spreadsheets

Scripting

AI

Job description

About the Position

We are looking for a proactive, enthusiastic problem-solver to join our Operations team. We sit at the heart of Jane Street's trading, ensuring that assets, information, and ideas flow smoothly and efficiently both within the firm and between us and the outside world.

As our trading grows in scale and complexity, we have to continually rethink and improve the way we work. That's where this role comes in.

To start, you'll be embedded within one of our Operations teams, learning the day-to-day work alongside your colleagues-running the processes, understanding the products, building real context for how things get done and why.

Over time, your focus will shift toward making that work better. That might mean redesigning how a reconciliation is done, removing handoffs between teams, imagining how tools and systems could work better, or applying AI where it helps. You'll look for the changes that would make the biggest difference, help build them, and see them through to adoption.

As you build context and a track record, you'll be pulled into problems in other Operations teams as well, and the balance will tip toward the process-improvement side of the work. The best people in this role end up with a view of Operations that few others have.

We expect this role to evolve over time, and we're looking for someone who's energized by that and embraces it.

About You

• Have a bachelor's degree and 2+ years of experience in operations, engineering, analytics, consulting, or a related field
• Notice inefficiencies and gaps in teams, tools, and processes, and take the initiative to improve them
• Pragmatic about problem-solving and think carefully about which solution best fits your problem (e.g., spreadsheets, scripts, AI)
• Comfortable digging into complex ideas and making them clear for others
• Self-starter and able to set your own direction in ambiguous situations
• Humble about what you know and don't know, and not afraid to ask questions
• Technical skills are a plus but not a requirement—we care more about how you think than what you can build

You don't need to match every line but if most of this resonates, we'd love to hear from you.