Hedge Fund Recruiter (Financial Industry)

Lewis Personnel Management; Makati; Remote; PHP 508,000 - 608,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full remote after training

Job summary

Lewis Personnel Management is seeking a role focusing on building a pipeline of PhD talent for hedge funds and asset managers. You will source final-year PhD students and recent graduates in mathematics, computer science and statistics from top schools, primarily using LinkedIn.

You will conduct outreach and early screening to confirm active interest in financial services, and hand resumes to the team for scheduling.

Qualifications

• Comfortable with high-volume LinkedIn sourcing and outreach.
• Experience sourcing academic, research or STEM talent.
• Able to work US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Source final-year PhD students and recent PhD graduates in mathematics, computer science or statistics from top-tier schools (Ivy League, MIT, Stanford). Not finance majors.
• Use LinkedIn as the primary channel, since this market sits outside finance. Chinese and Indian students studying in the US are a strong pocket of interest.
• Run outreach and first-stage screening: confirm each candidate is actively looking, open to financial services.
• Submit screened resumes to the team, who handle scheduling and the rest of the process (scheduling may be added later).
• Track your funnel weekly: resumes sourced, connect rate, screened candidates and submissions.

Skills

LinkedIn sourcing

Outreach

US hours

Sourcing STEM talent

Education

PhD in Mathematics

PhD in Computer Science

PhD in Statistics

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

About the role: The client’s financial services executive search desk places portfolio managers, traders and quant developers into hedge funds and large asset managers such as Citadel and Millennium. Their clients also hire straight out of school, and that's the market you'll own. You'll build a pipeline of PhD talent in mathematics, computer science and statistics from top-tier US universities and hand the client’s team candidates who are qualified, interested and ready to talk.
Salary: 50,000 PHP per month
Set Up: 1 RTO per month (for training) then transition to full remote.

What you'll do

• Source final-year PhD students and recent PhD graduates in mathematics, computer science or statistics from top-tier schools (Ivy League, MIT, Stanford). Not finance majors.
• Use LinkedIn as the primary channel, since this market sits outside finance. Chinese and Indian students studying in the US are a strong pocket of interest.
• Run outreach and first-stage screening: confirm each candidate is actively looking, open to financial services.
• Submit screened resumes to the team, who handle scheduling and the rest of the process (scheduling may be added later).
• Track your funnel weekly: resumes sourced, connect rate, screened candidates and submissions.

KPIs (starting placeholders, tightened once real throughput is visible)

• Target: 1 deal per quarter
• ~100 submissions to land a deal, from ~200 resumes sourced
• Broken down weekly, with connect rate (10-15% LinkedIn benchmark) and screened candidates tracked underneath

Requirements

• Comfortable with high-volume LinkedIn sourcing and outreach
• Able to work US business hours
• Experience sourcing academic, research or STEM talent
• Exposure to US recruiting or financial services clients
• Technical recruiting background (nice to have).