Exotic Options Trader

Jane Street Jane Street · Quant · Hong Kong · Quantitative Trading

Exotic Options Trader role focused on pricing complex derivatives, identifying trading opportunities, and managing sell-side counterparty relationships within the single stock and index options businesses. Requires strong quantitative skills, product knowledge, and collaborative abilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Price complex derivatives
  2. Identify trading opportunities
  3. Strategically manage relationships with our sell-side counterparties
  4. Contribute to idea generation, model development, and strategic positioning
  5. Cultivate these relationships and help us access flow we might otherwise miss

Skills

Required

  • Exotic options trading
  • quantitative skills in pricing complex derivatives
  • Familiarity with the sell-side landscape
  • building productive counterparty relationships
  • think critically
  • implement new ideas
  • Strong communicator
  • excellent planning
  • analytical skills
  • people skills
  • coordinating across time zones
  • Reliable
  • flexible team player
  • positive attitude
  • Detail-oriented
  • organised
  • thorough
  • desire for continuous improvement
  • Willingness to spend multiple weeks a year traveling to New York and London
  • Fluency in English

Nice to have

  • Programming skills in Python
  • teaching others
  • open to learning new techniques

What the JD emphasized

  • 3-6 years of experience in exotic options trading
  • Strong quantitative skills in pricing complex derivatives
  • track record of building productive counterparty relationships
  • willingness to push us in new directions