Human Resource Lead, Wintermute
A performance-based compensation with a significant earning potential alongside standard perks like pension and private health insurance.
3-5 days a week in office
Algorithmic trading firm in digital assets
Be an early applicant
Algorithmic trading firm in digital assets
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
A performance-based compensation with a significant earning potential alongside standard perks like pension and private health insurance.
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent, fair and efficient markets and products.
Role
Who you are
- Educated to a degree level (BSc/MSc), MBA or other continued education is a plus
- 5-8 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
- Alternatively, 5-8 years of experience in a non-HR function, e.g. consulting, strategy & operations and similar with a strong interest in moving to people function
- Sharing Wintermute values and ways of working and enthusiastic about developing high performance environments
- Strong experience/familiarity 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, attention to detail and zero-mistake attitude to private compensation matters
- Confidence with technology tools such as HR systems and related automations, ability to learn new tools fast
- 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 in high pressure situations, ability to have hard conversations if necessary
- Proven ability to see the bigger picture, commercial strategy, understand new functional areas quickly, and have a cross-functional mindset
What the job involves
- We are looking for an HR Lead who would take on the ownership of the HR/People function. Wintermute has strong values on culture, management styles, ways of working and performance assessment
- This culture is thought through and deliberate and we consider it one of our core competitive advantages. Therefore we see this role as a business role focused on maintaining and scaling this competitive advantage
- 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. 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 a company's performance. This is an owner-executor role, balancing strategic HR initiatives with hands-on operations across the entire employee lifecycle
- Scale and operationalizing company’s values and ways of doing business to make sure those are distilled throughout the organization and enable its 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 to coordinate and improve learning & development initiatives
- Work closely with team leads to support them in management of their teams and operations of team management
- Organize and coordinate of bi-annual performance and compensation review cycles, including deep analysis of self- and manager reviews
- Own and execute HR operations: employee lifecycle management, relating HR system management and documentation and automation, payroll checks Own and execute of HR operations related to visas, relocation, etc
- Initiate and execute improvement projects in relation to processes, automation, HR system efficiency etc
- Maintain and increase already high morale by supporting employees with their questions, upwards feedback, individual matters, etc
- Coordinate various HR matters globally including coordination with Singapore office and management of remote employees
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Recent developments in mobile applications and financial tech have resulted in increased demand for digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, and this growing demand is putting pressure on traditional market makers. Ultimately, the increased scale and complexity of the new digital asset landscape has exposed inefficiencies in existing liquidity providers.
Wintermute uses an algorithmic approach to provide market-making services that facilitate digital asset liquidity with long-term scaling and efficiency in mind. The company currently provides its market-making services to over 50 centralized and decentralized trading platforms, including Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken.
The company has taken a unique approach towards market making by operating with the assumption that digital asset markets are only going to get bigger and more complex. By streamlining the market making process with algorithmic automation and thus optimizing efficiency, Wintermute presents itself as a future-proof solution for the rapidly scaling digital asset industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
"Very nice, motivated colleagues. Culture is strong, activities such as events and even an annual outing allows you to connect and make friends...."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2021
$20m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$2.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $24.8m
Company benefits
- A unique opportunity to work on very interesting projects, get the level of responsibility and ownership that would be unlikely at any other project or trading firm
- A unique opportunity to join one of the strongest and most successful DeFi teams globally
- With Wintermute you don’t make a bet on a single product, platform, chain or technology; we’ll win if DeFi wins as a whole
- Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet collaborative and entrepreneurial
- Option to work from London or Singapore offices, as well as remotely; we generally prefer at least 60% working from the office but are open to remote candidates
- Aligned incentive structure: high upside from performance-based variable pay with very transparent bonus system
- We offer standard perks too, like pension, private health insurance and free food, but that’s probably not the right reason to join us
Company values
- Ambitious: We set the most ambitious goals. We set the highest standards for ourselves and work hard. We play to win
- Collaborative: We go above and beyond to help our partners and counterparties grow. We work as a team, not as siloed groups and individuals. We are united by common goals and values
- Entrepreneurial: We love building new innovative things. We move very fast and focus on the results. We empower everyone from day 1 to act like an owner
- Meritocratic: We are non-hierarchical, informal, and direct. We focus on results above seniority and experience. We generously reward results
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Evgeny Gaevoy
(CEO)Holds an Executive MBA from London Business School. Joined Optiver as an Index Derivatives Trader, and was eventually made Head of ETF Business Expansion.
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