Early Career Talent Development Programs Specialist

Jump Trading; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is hiring an Early Career Talent Development Programs Specialist in Singapore to join our global Talent Development team within People Operations. You will partner with research, trading and tech leaders to design and deliver world-class learning programs for interns and full-time early career talent across APAC.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to set program structure, goals, and performance evaluation processes, while ensuring alignment with local culture and firm

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in Talent/L&D, Campus Recruitment or HRBP with early careers.
• Experience in financial services or tech environments.
• Strong interpersonal skills across levels and ability to influence.
• Leadership or ownership of outcomes in people or projects.
• Diagnose development needs and design relevant initiatives.
• Business acumen and ability to manage changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design, drive and execute intern and early career programs in Singapore (APAC reach).
• Collaborate with technical and business leads to align goals and growth opportunities.
• Develop innovative educational programming leveraging industry trends and resources.
• Partner with global Early Careers ecosystem to align structure, evaluation, and mobility.
• Oversee onboarding and performance feedback for interns and campus hires.

Skills

Talent development

Campus recruiting

HR business partner

Learning & development

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Data fluency

Communication

Problem solving

Adaptability

Tools

Workday

LMS

Excel

Job description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Jump Trading is hiring an Early Career Talent Development Programs Specialistin Singapore to join our global Talent Development team, apartof our broader People Operations department.In this role,you’llpartner with research, trading and technologyleaders across the firm to designand deliver world-class learning and development programs. Our people andculture are our top priority, andwe’relooking for someone who’spassionate about helping others grow in our creative, fast-paced environment. If this soundslike you,we’dlove to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

• Be responsible for partnering with the global Talent Development team to design, drive and execute the high-profile intern and full-timeearly career talent programs in Singapore (with reach to other APAC offices) across research, trading and technology areas, from strategyand design to day-to-day execution.
• Work closely with technical & business leads and managers tounderstandbusiness goals,knowledge/skill needs, team fit dynamics, individual growth opportunitiesavailable, and route campus talent to high impact areas. Manage campus talent mobility processeswith data, transparency, and empathy.
• Collaboratively develop new and creativeeducational programming &development initiativesgeared towards Early Career talentbyleveragingindustry trends,internal& external resources/experts, andensuringalignmentwith localculture,customsand perspectives.
• Partner withstakeholders inthe globalEarly Careers ecosystem (Talent Development, Campus Recruiting, Human Resources, business leaders & mentors)toestablishalignment on program structure and goals,educational programming,performanceevaluationprocesses, conversion strategy, internal mobility, employee experience, and retention strategies.
• Serve as the manager forinternsfull-timecampus hiresduring their onboarding and upfront project work: Set goals, run 1:1s, delivertimelyfeedback, coach mentors, and address performance risks early inpartnership with HR andbusiness leadership.
• Contribute to ops/data/logistical tasks: onboarding,scheduling,communication campaigns,workspace/equipmentset up, vendormanagement, content & material coordination, etc.
• Propose, pilot, and iterate on solutions across the Early Career lifecycle; scale what works and challenge legacy processes when a betterapproach exists.Ensurethat Early Careers initiativesrepresentand promoteFirm’s culture.
• Contribute to projects within the broader Talent Development team and People Operations organization as needsarise, andensure alignment across Early Careers efforts and broader organizational programs.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

SkillsYou’llNeed:

• At least 5 years of experience working in a Talent/Learning Development, Campus Recruitment or HR Business Partner role, including experienceworking with campus/early careers talent.
• Experience in financial services, quantitative trading, hedge funds, or high-performance technology environments.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills that build relationships at all levels across the organization with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build consensus; has partnered directly with business managers, not just HR - can sit across from a trading desk head or engineering lead, understand their real challenges, and translate them into targeted development interventions.
• Leadership experience& ownership of outcomes, in either people or project management.
• Experience in diagnosing organizational and individual developmentneeds and designing and implementing relevant support/development initiatives.
• Strong business acumen, self-directed, results-orientedand the ability tomanagefrequentlychanging priorities and projects, in a flat environment.
• Strongdocumentation anddata fluency,and meticulous,error-free data entry in systems like Workday, Learning Management Systems, excel spreadsheets,etc. Values clean, complete data and uses it tobuild simple reports/dashboards that surface insights and drive decisions.
• Innate curiosity about the work peopledoand how they do it.
• Reliable and predictable availability.