Jane Street is hiring a games master to create "interactive experiences"

Jane Street may pay its staff $1.4m per head, but not all of its roles are about the pay. One position currently advertised by the electronic trading firm is all about the love of the game(s).

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Jane Street is hiring a puzzles and games producer in New York, on a salary of up to $150k. The new hire will be working on Jane Street's famous monthly puzzle, which has been running for over 11 years, but that's not all.

The project manager will also work on "interactive experiences" for Jane Street, examples of which it gives are "escape rooms, puzzle hunts and other math-based activities." 

Jane Street says the producer will be working across "various audiences and applications." One audience is university students; it ran a 'Mystery Planet' escape room in Melbourne, Durham (North Carolina) and Oxford over the past year. Attendees said the event involved collecting resources to trade with aliens after being stranded on an unknown planet, with the goal of bringing in as many resources as possible. It also began running another escape room, 'Puzzle City', in 2022.

Will winning these escape rooms help you get a Jane Street internship? It's not clear, but maybe the true resources gained from attending are the friends you make along the way.

Jane Street famously used games to help it hire interns in the past. Disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he was given 100 poker chips and put through a series of games when he applied, and that the applicants who had the most chips progressed to the next round. Jane Street's interview process might not be quite as intense today, but it still tends to ask some mind-boggling questions. 

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