Julia Dodenhoff
About Company
About The D. E. Shaw Group
Headquartered in New York City, the D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm, founded in 1988, with offices around the world. As one of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, our firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of our research and staff. With a culture that combines some of the best aspects of academia, finance, and technology, we pride ourselves on a work environment that promotes collaboration, integrity, and adherence to the highest possible ethical standards. We’ve learned that when an extraordinary team sets extraordinarily ambitious goals, unexpected breakthroughs can be achieved.
Our people are intellectual but also humble, rigorous in their work but flexible in their approach, interesting, friendly, and most of all, curious about the world around us. Our teams work in close collaboration—not in competitive silos—to share trade ideas, manage risks, streamline processes, and explore new opportunities. We think this creates a number of research and portfolio management advantages and fosters a stimulating and rewarding work environment. By helping each person to develop professionally and to learn not only from successes but also from mistakes, we help spark the intellectual interests of individual employees and ensure that they are thriving.
Outside of the office, our people have wide-ranging personal interests that they pursue as entrepreneurs, patent holders, competitive sailors, marathoners, professional opera singers, board members of nonprofit organizations, and champion bridge players, to name a few. We are committed to the well-being and happiness of our employees, and we recognize that different people thrive in different types of environments: some are most productive working in t-shirts or listening to music, while others need time away from the office to recharge after a challenging project. We also have pantries stocked with snacks and games, an on-site gym, guest speakers from a range of disciplines, volunteer and public service opportunities, museum memberships, and social events.
