About the Role
Optiver is seeking an operations leader to drive improvements in the end-to-end recruitment workflow. This role is crucial for maintaining Optiver's success as a leading market maker by hiring top talent and ensuring a best-in-class candidate experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead improvements in day-to-day recruitment operations, processes, and technologies to support talent acquisition strategy, ensuring efficiency and competitive advantage.
- Streamline workflows and enhance efficiency by partnering with the People Analytics team to improve reporting, data analysis, and decision-making.
- Troubleshoot issues, manage escalations, and ensure operational excellence across the hiring process.
- Identify opportunities for automation and digitisation to reduce manual tasks and accelerate recruitment processes.
- Collaborate with recruiting operations counterparts in Europe and the US to deploy new regional and global tools, processes, and technologies.
- Partner with APAC Recruitment leads to prioritize scalable projects that align with strategic goals.
- Ensure recruitment operations align with broader organizational objectives.
- Ensure a seamless candidate journey from recruitment to onboarding.
- Oversee recruitment risk and control frameworks, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement.
- Perform regular audits of the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to maintain accuracy, functionality, and user satisfaction.
- Enhance and maintain documentation that supports recruitment processes and improves team efficiency.
- Train recruitment team members and stakeholders on new tools, processes, and system functionalities.
- Act as the primary point of contact for recruiting tool support and troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- 4+ years of experience in recruitment operations or HR operations.
- Experience managing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS, Greenhouse preferred) and other recruiting technologies.
- Strong understanding of recruitment technologies and best practices.
- Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills, particularly Excel.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, capable of adapting communication style to suit different audiences.
- Comfortable operating both strategically and tactically.
- Willingness to get into the detail and resolve operational challenges.
- Proven ability to drive improvement in processes, cultivating a culture of continuous improvement.
- Attention to detail with strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Experience handling competing priorities and productively working in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
Skills
- Recruitment operations
- HR operations
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- Recruiting technologies
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Excel
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Strategic thinking
- Tactical execution
- Process improvement
- Analytical skills
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving
Location
- APAC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary package
- Competitive renumeration salary package
Benefits
- Daily breakfast
- Daily lunch
- In-house barista
- Gym membership
- Weekly chair massages
- Continuous learning, development and upskilling opportunities
- Regular social events
- Company trip every two years
About the Company
- Optiver is a leading market maker.
- We are an intentionally flat organisation where great ideas and impact can come from everyone.
- We are passionate about empowering individuals and creating diverse teams that thrive.
- We believe our best work is done together.
Equal Opportunity
- Every person at Optiver should feel included, valued and respected.
- Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process.
- We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds.
- We welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.
