Recruitment Coordinator

About WintermuteWintermute is one of the largest liquidity providers in digital assets globally. We manage billions in assets and trade more than $5B+/day across dozens of different trading platforms. Wintermute provides liquidity algorithmically across most exchanges and its own OTC products. We support all major centralized and decentralized exchanges and trading platforms, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and we work with most major chains. Wintermute’s customer-facing business includes various OTC products such as electronic trading API and single-dealer platform for a wide range of counterparties from crypto native whales to large traditional finance institutions. Wintermute is also providing market making services for blockchain projects where we supported most of the world’s largest and most prominent launches. In addition to providing the best in class liquidity products, Wintermute is one of the earliest and most active supporters of DeFi. We invest in and help scale early stage DeFi projects, we actively participate in governance of various protocols and cooperate with projects of building the missing pieces of the ecosystem. Wintermute is a hyper-growth highly profitable business with a very ambitious vision and roadmap. We are backed by Lightspeed, Pantera Capital, Sino Global Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Avon Ventures by Fidelity Investments, DeFi Alliance and other top tier investors. We are run as a technology company, not a financial service provider, and we build our culture around core values of ambition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, transparency and meritocracy.Working at Wintermute Wintermute are looking for a highly determined Recruitment Coordinator who will help to accelerate our recruitment efforts across all roles and geographies. You will be responsible coordinating recruitment processes for all business functions whilst providing an exceptional experience for candidates and hiring managers. You will report directly into the Head of Talent Acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with head of talent acquisition, strategy & operations and hiring managers on designing recruitment strategies for a variety of technology and business roles
• Coordinate recruitment processes for various roles, including screening a large number of applications and scheduling interviews
• Be the point of contact to candidates throughout the process to ensure they have a great candidate experience even when not hired
• Coordinate recruitment processes in our centralized ATS: set up roles, collate feedback from the hiring managers, manage appropriate templates and automations
• Publish and promote Jobs on our website site as well as on all relevant job sites and ensure they are regularly updated
• Liaise with key external stakeholders at universities and various engineering bootcamps to arrange events such as career fairs, hackathons, company presentations and any events that could bring value to Wintermute
• Greet and host all candidate interviews on-site, ensuring a smooth and seamless interview experience for both candidates and interviewers
• Help with offering, contracting, and onboarding as required

Hard Skills Requirements

• BSc/MSc in Business/Marketing/Psychology or any related degree
• 2-5 years in a high-performance recruiter role, internal or agency side; you should have seen best-in-class recruitment processes
• Experience in recruitment coordination, scheduling, and logistics.
• Experience with organising events such as hackathons, bootcamps and presentations etc.
• Extremely organised and able to effectively manage and prioritise tasks
• Great communication skills - clear, concise, empathetic, ability to speak with very different people (e.g. from deep technologists to MBA graduates)
• Excellent organizational skills - the candidates were never lost with you
• Competitive spirit: drive to attract the best talent, increase candidate pool, win over any other competing offers, convince the right candidates to make the move
• Willingness and aptitude to understand business and screening requirements fast
• Experience using the Lever ATS is a bonus!

Other Requirements

• Have an owner mentality: you focus on the ultimate result for the company (short and long-term growth)
• Able to understand the bigger picture and be very hands-on and practical
• Love problem solving, and love seeing the tangible results of you work
• Determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard, take feedback and learn on the way
• Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset versus working 9-to-5 mentality; prepared to work non-standard working hours (since we are a high-growth startup operating in 24/7 crypto world)
• Like working in the team collaborative environment (not fully remote), at least half-time working from our office

Wintermute Offer

• A unique opportunity to work on very interesting projects, get the level of responsibility and ownership that would take 5-10 years longer to get in a traditional trading company/bank/hedge fund
• A unique opportunity to join a high growth startup and one of the strongest and highest potential crypto startups globally
• Great culture: highly professional and ambitious, yet informal, friendly, non-hierarchical, collaborative and entrepreneurial   
• A cool office in central London with a sci-fi touch (Singapore office is in the works)
• Weekly team events, such as team lunches, team dinners, team board games and Dota playing sessions; these are not obligatory in any sense, but this is what we like to do
• Aligned incentive structure: on top of competitive fixed compensation you get significant performance-based variable pay

Tips for Successful Application

• Only apply to us if you are genuinely interested or curious about this role and this space; this is not for someone who is just looking for "a job" or pursues purely mercenary objectives
• Do your research: look at our website and social media channels
• Write us a short, honest, and direct message if you'd like to apply. Tell us about why you are interested in Wintermute generally and your specific role in particular
• Do not send us generic copy paste applications, we are looking for authentic people who share our interests, values and ambitions. If you don't have some obviously matching experience or skills, make sure you state very clearly what you can bring or how your experience is relevant/transferable 
• Prepare to be tested on our hard skills requirements
• Prepare to demonstrate “Other requirements”
• Do your basic homework on crypto markets and what hft/market making/algo trading is
• We get a lot of applications, so unfortunately, we won't be able to proceed if you simply press "submit button"; we do promise to reply to everyone who puts time and effort into making the application relevant!