About Wintermute Wintermute is one of the largest crypto-native algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across most cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, a broad range of OTC trading products as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto. We actively participate in the development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments, partnerships, and incubation of new innovative products. Wintermute was founded in 2017 by industry leaders and has successfully navigated multiple crypto industry cycles. Culturally, we combine the best of the two worlds: the technology standards of high-frequency trading firms in traditional markets and the innovative and entrepreneurial culture of technology startups. Read more here. Working at Wintermute We are seeking an HR Lead who would take on the ownership of the HR/People function including HR processes and operations. Wintermute has strong values on culture, management styles and views on performance assessment. We are looking for a person who would share those values and would be enthusiastic to help us scale those in our journey of growing the company by at least 20% in terms of headcount. Wintermute is a high performance dynamic environment attracting smart and driven people who are interested in technology, innovation, changing the status quo and having a direct impact on company’s performance. This is owner-executor role, meaning the responsibilities range from working on strategic HR related projects to being very hands on with all sort of HR operations.
Responsibilities
Scaling and operationalizing company’s values and ways of doing business to make sure those are distilled throughout the organization and enable it’s effective running
Initiate and execute various initiatives and improvements that help in distilling the culture and values that are important to the organization
Work closely with the management and team leads to help them in management of their teams
Owning and executing HR operations: employee onboarding and lifecycle management, relating HR system management and documentation, work on payroll with finance, HR policies and liaising with employment lawyers as needed
Ownership and execution of HR operations related to visas, relocation, etc
Initiation and execution of improvement projects in relation to processes, automation, HR system efficiency etc
Organization and coordination of bi-annual performance and compensation review cycles
Maintain and increase already high morale by supporting employees in support of all of their needs, addressing and resolving individual employee questions or concerns if those arise
Coordinate various HR matters globally including coordination with Singapore office and management of remote employees
Hard skills requirements
Educated to a degree level (BSc/MSc)
3-8 years of experience owning significant parts of the HR function in a high performing organization, such as a trading firm, fast growing technology company, consulting firm or similar
Enthusiastic about Wintermute values and ways of doing business, enthusiastic about building and maintaining high performance environments
Strong experience in several areas of HR such as performance review cycles, HR operations, compensation, employee initiatives, etc; willingness and ability to learn other areas
Ownership mentality: doing whatever needs to be done to achieve the goals, from initiating improvements to effective execution of operational tasks
Confidence with Excel/data sets and technology tools such as HR systems
Great communication skills - clear, concise, empathetic, ability to speak with very different people (e.g. from deep technologists to MBA graduates) and understand different personalities and perspectives, ability to stay calm and balances even in high pressure situations
Proven ability to see the bigger picture, commercial strategy, understand new functional areas quickly, and have a cross-functional mindset
Join our dynamic team and benefit from:
A unique opportunity to join one of the leading companies in digital asset space as a key member of the legal team and take on personal ownership and accountability
Very varied and interesting projects across all law areas in the most dynamic finance industry: a level of learning and responsibilities as well as intellectual challenge that is hard for any law firm or traditional trading company/bank/hedge fund to match
Company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet dynamic, collaborative, entrepreneurial.