Graphic Designer

Jane Street
London, United Kingdom
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 6+ years of design experience across a range of project types and scales, with strong fundamentals in typography, layout, and color. This mid-level role in London involves collaborative, generalist design work for a quantitative finance firm, requiring curiosity about abstract mathematical and trading concepts.

Best fit for

  • A design generalist who enjoys variety and can contribute across many project types and scales.
    — “you'll get to be a design generalist and pitch in wherever the team needs you”
  • A designer who finds energy in collaborative feedback and iteration, treating it as part of the creative puzzle.
    — “you treat feedback and iteration as part of the fun of solving a design puzzle”
  • A candidate with excellent taste and meticulous attention to detail across typography, layout, and color.
    — “Have excellent taste, with strong typography, layout and colour fundamentals”
  • Someone comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously, from brief to final files or midway support.
    — “Comfortable running several projects at once at different stages”

Things to consider

  • The role requires fluency in English and a portfolio submission as part of the application process.
    — “We do ask for a portfolio when you apply”
  • The work involves presenting designs to stakeholders and integrating their feedback into iterations.
    — “Happy to present your work to stakeholders”
  • You must be proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PowerPoint, and Google Suite applications.
    — “Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and PowerPoint”

How to stand out

  • Showcase projects that translate abstract intellectual concepts into clear, engaging visual designs.
    — “loves taking abstract ideas and turning them into clear, engaging designs”
  • Highlight your understanding of production processes like prepress and handoff to developers.
    — “Understand production: prepress, spec'ing for fabrication and handoff to web dev”
  • Demonstrate curiosity by asking questions about the mathematical or trading concepts behind design challenges.
    — “Curious about what you're designing for—you'll happily ask a colleague to explain the maths”
  • Provide examples of giving and receiving clear, useful feedback in a collaborative team setting.
    — “Give clear, useful feedback on other designers' work”
Pace · VariedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • successful branding and visual identity projects
  • engaging design solutions for complex ideas
Typical background
graphic designbranding

Skills & requirements

Required

Graphic DesignBrandingPrint And Digital Asset CreationLogo And Brand System DevelopmentPresentation SkillsProject Management

Preferred

Financial DesignMathematical Visualization

Stack & domain

PhotoshopIllustratorIndesignPowerpointGoogle SuitePrepressSpec'ing For FabricationPresentationFeedback

About the role

Original posting from Jane Street

About the position

We're looking for a Graphic Designer to join our Creative Engagement team and bring visual life to the financial, technological and mathematical work happening at Jane Street. In this role, you'll help shape and care for how the firm looks across our many departments, programmes, spaces and events.

Our work is deeply intellectual, so we're hoping to find someone who loves taking abstract ideas and turning them into clear, engaging designs that celebrate the thoughtful things our colleagues are doing across the company.

The variety of work is what our designers love most: you might find yourself creating print and digital assets for recruiting materials, giving a conference booth its visual identity, bringing our puzzles and games to life, developing swag and branded packaging, shaping logos and brand systems and much more. We work collaboratively, so you'll get to be a design generalist and pitch in wherever the team needs you.

No previous finance experience is needed—just genuine curiosity and an enthusiasm for interesting design challenges. We do ask for a portfolio when you apply.

About you

Have 6+ years of design experience across a range of project types and scales

Have excellent taste, with strong typography, layout and colour fundamentals and meticulous attention to detail

Comfortable running several projects at once at different stages, taking some from brief to final files, picking up others midway

Understand production: prepress, spec'ing for fabrication and handoff to web dev

Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and PowerPoint, and comfortable in Google Suite, especially Slides and Docs

Happy to present your work to stakeholders, and you treat feedback and iteration as part of the fun of solving a design puzzle

Give clear, useful feedback on other designers' work

Curious about what you're designing for—you'll happily ask a colleague to explain the maths or the trading concept behind a project

Fluent in English

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

Source: Jane Street careers

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