About the Position

We are looking for an experienced compliance professional to oversee the operation and implementation of our automated trade surveillance program in the U.S. 

In this role, you'll oversee the trade surveillance program and manage the team that keeps these workflows running smoothly. You’ll partner closely with seasoned colleagues across Legal and Compliance to shape decisions on the direction and priorities of the group. You'll also be a primary liaison between our team and the rest of the firm, serving as a trusted point of contact for traders, technologists, and other colleagues.

Additional responsibilities of the role may include:

• Gathering high-level statistics about frequency and quality of trade surveillance alerts, and proposing changes to parameters and/or logic where necessary
• Reviewing the quality and completeness of alert closure comments written by the trade surveillance team
• Working with developers to ensure that automated trade surveillances are implemented accurately
• Ensuring that the suite of automated trade surveillances adheres to internal policies, and identifying opportunities to strengthen our controls and processes
• Coordinating with peers in foreign offices to ensure consistent application of trade surveillance design decisions and standards
• Serving as an escalation point for any questions or concerns raised by the team reviewing trade surveillance alerts

About You

• Have worked 8+ years in a legal and compliance environment with experience in trade surveillance and monitoring
• Able to work with and analyze data to uncover trends and investigate trading patterns 
• Discreet and trustworthy; able to use sound judgment to make real-time decisions and own the outcomes
• A clear, concise communicator who can engage credibly with senior colleagues and external partners
• Comfortable asking questions, surfacing issues early, and owning mistakes
• Organized with excellent attention to detail, especially when managing work across multiple parallel threads
• A proactive self-starter who works independently, follows through on tasks, escalates when necessary, and drives projects to completion

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.

About the Position

We are seeking a Compliance Coordinator to provide critical administrative support to our fast-paced and growing Legal and Compliance team. In this role, you will help manage the intake, tracking, and submission of responses to regulatory requests and examination workflows, as well as support daily tasks related to regulatory databases and other legal operations.

Working alongside experienced colleagues, you will maintain, organize, and develop databases while managing the systems and processes that keep our operations running smoothly. You will also serve as a key liaison between our team and the rest of the firm, often acting as the first point of contact with various Jane Street stakeholders, including traders, technologists, procurement specialists, market data analysts, and engineers. 

Additional responsibilities of this role may include:

• Providing essential administrative support to the Regulatory Inquiries and Exams team (and broader Legal and Compliance team, as appropriate)
• Monitoring deadlines, maintaining documentation, and managing record-keeping and filings
• Maintaining, organizing, and updating internal databases and tracking systems
• Assisting in the creation and documentation of internal processes, and proposing and implementing process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability across our Regulatory Inquiries and Exams team and Legal and Compliance team workflows
• Facilitating the collection and provision of data to various stakeholders in connection with their projects

About You

• Have an undergraduate degree with 3+ years of administrative/paralegal experience
• Experienced with corporate or financial transactions at a trading firm, hedge fund, law firm, or private equity firm
• Self-motivated with a strong independent work ethic
• Highly organized and able to handle competing priorities
• Strong communicator with great people skills 
• Experienced with databases, project management, and AI tools
• Reliable, courteous, and flexible team player
• Have excellent computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Google Workspace, and web-based portals)
• Licensed notary, or willing to become one

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.

About the Position

We are looking for an energetic and driven Regulatory Lawyer to join our Legal team in Hong Kong. 

In this role, you’ll provide clear and practical advice to teams across the firm and advise on both non-contentious and contentious regulatory matters.  You will be expected to:

• Provide legal and regulatory guidance across different asset classes (e.g., equities, listed and OTC derivatives, commodities, fixed income, digital assets)  and to coordinate legal advice in jurisdictions across the APAC region
• Partner with our Compliance team to advise on regulatory licensing, reporting and market access obligations, and to assist in preparing for and responding to regulatory inspections or investigations
• Be a key contributor on strategic projects and business development initiatives across the APAC region
• Work closely with legal teams in the UK and US as part of a global legal function

About You

• Have at least 5+ years of PQE in a relevant practice area (i.e. non-contentious or contentious regulatory), within a leading law firm or in-house with a financial institution
• Able to stay organised with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy, and able to handle competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and able to identify and distill key issues in complex areas 
• Self-motivated and flexible team player
• Positive, responsible and professional in attitude and presence
• Collaborative and able to clearly articulate your approach, analysis and conclusions
• Comfortable working on novel problems that rarely have clean, definitive answers and that require good decision making and risk management skills
• Fluent in English
  
  

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About the Position

We are looking for an energetic and driven Legal Counsel to join our Legal and Compliance team in Hong Kong, focusing on our China business development. In this role, you’ll provide clear and practical advice to teams across the firm and help draft, review and negotiate trading-related contracts for our Asia business, with a particular focus on China. 

The types of agreements that you will help draft and negotiate include derivatives documents, commodities purchase agreements, broker agreements, terms of business, NDAs and financing agreements. We will also rely on you to:

• Respond to inquiries regarding existing and new contracts 
• Provide direct legal support to the desk on new business initiatives
• Liaise with external counsel and other external advisers 
• Negotiate with counterparties in China and other jurisdictions

While your daily work will focus on Hong Kong and China, you may also advise colleagues more broadly across our office locations worldwide.

About You

• Have 3-8 years of PQE on a corporate and/or finance team (e.g., derivatives, credit, M&A) within leading law firms or financial institutions
• Experienced with drafting and negotiating contracts
• Able to stay organised with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy, and able to handle competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent writer and speaker; strong negotiator
• Self-motivated and flexible team player
• Positive, responsible and professional in attitude and presence
• Collaborative and able to clearly articulate your approach, analysis and conclusions
• Comfortable working on problems that rarely have clean, definitive answers
• Native in Mandarin and fluent in English, both in speaking and writing

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.

About the Position

We are looking for a Personal Accounts Trading Analyst to join our growing Legal & Compliance team and act as a point of contact in administering various employee compliance requirements. You’ll work alongside seasoned colleagues, learning to manage the many moving pieces that keep our systems and processes running smoothly.

The regulatory landscape within our industry is complex and evolving. In this role, you'll be responsible for the day-to-day operations of our personal accounts, outside business activities, private securities transactions, and gifts areas of the employee compliance program, including tasks such as statement reviews and transaction exceptions.

While you'll be based in New York, you'll also be involved in employee compliance workflows for our London and Hong Kong offices, collaborating with colleagues across regions to ensure consistent global standards. The right person for this role will enjoy working with both paperwork and people, and be able to answer questions and explain policies clearly to a wide range of colleagues across the firm.

About You

• Have a bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of corporate experience (compliance experience with Personal Accounts is a plus, but not required)
• Professional and trustworthy; you show excellent judgment with sensitive information
• A strong communicator with great people skills
• A motivated self-starter who can handle competing priorities and work effectively in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Organized with excellent attention to detail
• A reliable, courteous, and flexible team player

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.

About the Position

We are looking for an Employee Compliance Specialist to act as a point of contact in administering various employee compliance requirements in our Hong Kong office. You should be able to answer questions and explain processes clearly to a wide range of colleagues across the firm and external parties, and work well with others to implement and improve our compliance processes.

Additional responsibilities of this role will include:

• Administering the SFC licensing process and trader registration processes with various third parties
• Administering the Personal Account Dealing Policy, answering queries and appropriately handling breaches
• Coordinating and monitoring our Continuous Professional Training (CPT) programme, including working with stakeholders to create learning content
• Identifying employee compliance-related policies and processes in need of improvement and designing and implementing those improvements
• Working with third-party vendors to maintain and improve various tools
• Managing the full SFC “Manager-in-Charge” (MIC) registration and exchange registration processes for certified persons
• Creating management information to be shared with MICs and other stakeholders

This role sits within our Legal and Compliance team, a dedicated group of professionals who share a deep understanding of the law, a meticulous commitment to regulatory protocol and a passion for protecting our colleagues as they focus on their daily work.

About You

• Have an undergraduate degree and at least 5 years of relevant professional experience in employee compliance (in particular, SFC licensing requirements)
• A proactive, courteous and flexible team player
• Organised with strong communication and people skills
• Mature, professional and trustworthy; show excellent judgement with sensitive information
• Motivated self-starter who can handle competing priorities and work effectively in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Fluent in English and spoken/written Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin)

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.

About the Position

We are looking for an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Onboarding Analyst to help our Legal & Compliance team implement complex and evolving regulatory requirements across multiple business lines and global jurisdictions. 

In this role, you will collaborate with colleagues on teams across our global offices, including Operations, Traders, and Banking, as well as with external trading counterparties to: 

• Onboard trading counterparties and support existing relationships
• Field inquiries for information about Jane Street’s legal structure and operations
• Analyze and investigate counterparty risk 
• Continue to develop your understanding of regulatory frameworks and AML rules as they apply to Jane Street’s business 
• Support other teams in multiple stages of the counterparty relationship
• Assist the team with building out policies and procedures to meet the evolving needs of Jane Street’s business 

About You

• Bachelor’s degree
• Prior experience with corporate documentation in a compliance, corporate paralegal, or client services role is preferred
• Resourceful; able to seek out answers both internally and externally to solve problems
• Motivated self-starter who can handle competing priorities and work effectively in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
• Communicates clearly with colleagues and external partners
• Discreet and trustworthy; able to exercise sound judgement with sensitive information

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com. 

About the Position

We are looking for an energetic, driven Commercial Contracts Lawyer to join Jane Street's growing Legal team in a newly created role. Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with our Engineering, Facilities and Procurement teams as a trusted advisor and thought partner on strategy, planning and risk management
• Reviewing and negotiating office and data centre leases, master services agreements, professional services and consulting agreements, licence agreements and other commercial contracts
• Supporting our commercial contracts and procurement processes, and advising our market data, technology and other infrastructure teams
• Advising the broader firm on day-to-day contract issues that arise across our global offices

The right person for this role will be intellectually curious, precise, genuinely enthusiastic about learning and able to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment. 

About You

• Have 8-12 years of experience in commercial contracts, including commercial real estate leases, construction fit-out projects, data centres, and technology and professional services (in-house experience preferred)
• A qualified solicitor in England and Wales in good standing with the Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Have advanced knowledge of commercial contract law, with comfort across leases, construction projects, technology and data licensing
• A strong writer and communicator with great people skills
• Adept at incorporating AI into legal practices
• Collaborative and consultative in your approach; organised and willing to take initiative on process improvements
• Experienced working with engineering and procurement teams; having market data experience is a plus
• Experienced with contract management systems and legal review processes
• Comfortable travelling to our New York office 1-2 times per year or as required
• Fluent in English

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com

About the Position

We are seeking a Paralegal to provide critical administrative support to our fast and growing Legal & Compliance team. In this role, you will help manage contracts (including financial and vendor contracts and leases), workflows, and databases, as well as support daily tasks related to legal operations and ad hoc projects as needed. 

Working alongside experienced colleagues, you will maintain, organize, and develop databases while managing the systems and processes that keep our operations running smoothly. You will also serve as a key liaison between Legal & Compliance and the rest of the firm, often acting as the first point of contact with various Jane Street stakeholders, including traders, technologists, procurement, market data, and engineering teams. 

Additional responsibilities of the role may include:

• Collecting signatures, drafting, blacklining, proofreading, scanning, and completing forms
• Organizing and maintaining centralized directories, contract templates, and support materials
• Reviewing and preparing documentation, including onboarding documents, Powers of Attorney, Non-Disclosure Agreements, service and vendor agreements, leases, and other contracts arising in the course of Jane Street’s business (and taking responsibility for filing and maintaining these documents in the database) 
• Preparing and maintaining lease abstracts for offices, data centers, and co-locations 
• Facilitating the collection and provision of data to various stakeholders in connection with their projects, and proposing and implementing process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability across our legal operations and contracts workflows

About You

• Have an undergraduate degree with 3+ years of administrative/paralegal experience
• Experienced with corporate or financial transactions at a trading firm, hedge fund, law firm, or private equity firm—OR—experienced with vendor/procurement and/or leasing in financial services or tech
• Self-motivated with a strong independent work ethic
• Organized and able to handle competing priorities
• Strong communicator with great people skills 
• Experienced with databases, project management, and AI tools
• Reliable, courteous, and flexible team player
• Have excellent computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Google Workspace, and web-based portals)
• Licensed notary, or willing to become one

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.