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About the Role
As a Data Scout in our Data Strategy Group (DSG), you'll help find, validate and promote the external datasets that power trading at Jump. Your main job will be finding new data to meet growing demand, mapping the alternative data landscape, identifying new vendors and datasets, and performing the initial vetting.
Responsibilities
- Map the alternative data market by category and stay current on new entrants and consolidation.
- Source datasets through your network, industry events, marketplaces and research, with an eye for early-stage and niche providers.
- Assess each dataset's viability and potential use cases before it goes to the wider team.
- Write concise vendor summaries and keep our data catalogue and pipeline current.
- Serve as the first point of contact for new vendors and attend industry conferences.
- Keep the team informed on market trends, emerging categories and gaps in our coverage.
Requirements
- At least 2 - 5 years in the alternative data ecosystem, at a trading firm, hedge fund, data vendor, aggregator or marketplace.
- Strong knowledge of alternative data categories and vendors, plus an established network of vendor contacts.
- The ability to judge a dataset's quality and coverage from samples or documentation.
- Proficiency in Excel is required.
- Familiarity with alternative data compliance issues, including privacy, consent, web scraping and MNPI.
- Clear, concise writing.
- Excellent organization and follow-through, and comfort working independently.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
Experience Level
- 2 - 5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000—$250,000 USD
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs
About the Company
- Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research.
- We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets.
- Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak.
- We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect.
- At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns.
- We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
- Trading Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure.
- From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.