Jane Street

Dividend Trader

Jane Street  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

About the Position

We are looking for a Dividend Trader based in London to work closely with our global options team and help build out our European dividend trading capabilities. In this role, you'll trade index and single stock dividend futures, manage dividend exposure arising from our broader options portfolio, and identify opportunities to grow our presence in this space.

Dividend trading at Jane Street interfaces closely with our single stock and index options businesses. You'll collaborate with colleagues across products and regions, contributing to idea generation, risk management, and strategic positioning. We are actively expanding our dividend trading capabilities and are looking for someone who brings product expertise and market intuition to help us develop this area. Your understanding of the dividend landscape, ability to spot relative value, and willingness to push us in new directions will be instrumental in our growth.

Our Trading team is full of highly motivated professionals who have created a culture of trust, respect, and collaboration. Your working relationships, trader intuition, and ability to analyse special situations will add value to our team.

About You

  • 3+ years of experience trading dividends at a bank or trading firm
  • Strong understanding of index and single stock dividend futures markets
  • Able to think critically and implement new ideas
  • Strong quantitative skills in pricing and risk management
  • Programming skills in Python preferred
  • Experienced teaching others and open to learning new techniques
  • Strong communicator with excellent planning, analytical, and people skills; comfortable coordinating across time zones
  • Reliable and flexible team player with a positive attitude
  • Detail-oriented, organised, and thorough, with a desire for continuous improvement
  • Willingness to spend multiple weeks a year traveling to New York and Hong Kong is a plus
Jane Street

About Jane Street

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.

More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.

Jane Street does not offer any services to individual investors: https://www.janestreet.com/fraud-and-impersonation-warnings/

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
2000
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