Macro Analyst

Jane Street Jane Street · Quant · New York, NY · Quantitative Trading

Experienced Macro Analyst to provide macroeconomic and geopolitical insights to global trading and research teams, focusing on developing well-reasoned views and expanding trading opportunities. Responsibilities include macro updates, quantitative analysis, aggregating research, and deep dives into specific topics.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engaging in detailed, technical discussions with traders and researchers by providing macro updates and quantitative analyses, presenting your logic and reasoning grounded in data, numbers, probabilities, and statistical insights, and addressing any follow-up questions with clarity and precision
  2. Interacting with sell-side sales and research contacts globally, aggregating broker notes, and developing and summarizing opinions (having your own contacts is a plus)
  3. Running longer-term deep dives into geographies of interest or particular macro topics, ranging from correctly framing the questions and gathering the data (both by talking to external people and looking up historical data), to analyzing the findings and coming up with well-reasoned conclusions and recommendations (both quantitative and qualitative)

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience covering macro within trading, financial services, or governmental institutions
  • strong quantitative background
  • command of probability
  • familiarity working with macroeconomic data series
  • technical skills (e.g. Python) to perform some independent data analysis
  • ability to work nimbly and combine datasets, statistical models, and broader economic understanding to tackle big questions

Nice to have

  • existing expertise in a particular geography
  • having your own contacts is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • global macro topics
  • quantitative analyses
  • macroeconomic data series