Human Resources Business Partner- Technology & Platforms

Belvedere Trading, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Benefits package

Job summary

Belvedere Trading, LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Human Resources Business Partner to support our Technology and Platform departments in Chicago. You will shape the people strategy, design scalable org structures, and lead workforce planning for a fast-growing tech ecosystem.

The role partners with Talent Acquisition and leadership to drive performance, development, and successful onboarding, while coaching managers to build a high-performance, confidential culture in a dynamic trading

Qualifications

• Strategic HR partner with experience supporting technical populations at scale.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of trading/finance dynamics.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and credibility with senior leadership.
• Knowledge of employment law, compensation practices, and HR best practices.

Responsibilities

• Set people strategy for Technology and Platform, translating roadmaps into hiring, engagement, development, and retention.
• Lead organizational design for a large technical organization, defining roles and reporting lines.
• Own workforce planning with multi-quarter headcount models and budget alignment.
• Develop leveling and career frameworks for engineers, infra, and platform teams.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on high-volume and specialized technical hiring.
• Scale onboarding and ramp-up for technical hires, ensuring compliance and environment readiness.
• Hold managers accountable for 30/60/90-day milestones and development plans.
• Coach first-time managers and support leadership development and communication skills.
• Define learning priorities and map training to leveling frameworks.
• Set performance expectations and lead calibration and reviews.

Skills

Strategic HR Partner

Big tech experience

Business acumen

Interpersonal communication

Conflict resolution

Employee relations

HR data analytics

Confidentiality

Change management

Performance management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR / BA in related field

Master’s degree or HR certification

Job description

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry.

Our People Team department focuses on delivering employee-first solutions to the business. We go all-out to understand and support our team member's needs, leverage data to gain insights and trends, and advance our human-capital-related applications for efficiency and consistency. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success. The People Team is comprised of Employee Experience, People Operations, Talent, and People & Development. These groups work closely together to bring in the best talent for Team Belvedere and from day one, make sure that all team members have all the tools they need to succeed and develop through their tenure.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to support our Technology and Platform departments, among the largest and fastest-growing departments at the firm. The HRBP will act as a strategic partner to leadership, with a heavy emphasis on organizational design, workforce planning, and scaling teams responsibly. This is a builder's role: you will help define how a large technical organization is structured, leveled, and grown, while providing hands-on support for performance management, employee relations, and leadership development. The ideal candidate will have deep HR experience supporting technical populations at scale, strong business acumen, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

What You’ll Do

• Work with the Technology and Platform business heads to set the people strategy for those organizations, translating engineering roadmaps and departmental goals into action across hiring, engagement, development, performance, and retention.
• Lead organizational design for a large, complex technical organization: assess team structures, spans of control, reporting lines, and role definitions, and recommend changes that support scale without adding unnecessary layers.
• Own workforce planning at scale, building multi-quarter headcount plans by team and skill set, modeling growth scenarios, and pressure-testing plans against budget and delivery commitments.
• Build and maintain leveling and career frameworks for technical roles, ensuring consistent expectations for individual contributors and managers across engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams.
• Partner closely with Talent Acquisition on high-volume and specialized technical hiring, setting priorities around headcount sequencing, hiring timelines, role requirements, and candidate experience.
• Scale onboarding and ramp-up for technical hires, ensuring a smooth transition from offer through full integration, including compliance, systems access, technical environment readiness, and cultural immersion.
• Hold m anagers accountable for early talent success, ensuring 30-, 60-, and 90-day milestones are met, development plans are established quickly, and new hires are supported through ramp-up.
• Grow the people manager bench by identifying emerging leaders, coaching first-time managers, and partnering with the Talent Developm ent Speci alist on manager development, technical leadership, and communication skills.
• Define learning priorities for Technology and Platform with the Talent Development Specialist, co-designing role-based development paths and technical onboarding tracks that map to the leveling framework, and reinforcing application of training with managers.
• Set and reinforce performance expectations across a large population, guiding managers through goal setting, calibration, performance reviews, feedback cycles, and development planning.
• Advise le adersh ip on compensation and rewards for technical talent, including market benchmarking, equity and bonus structures, and retention actions for critical contributors.
• Serve as a trusted people leader for the departments, proactively addressing concerns, navigating sensitive issues, managing escalations, and protecting a high-integrity, high-performance culture.
• Lead people-side change management for reorganizations, team splits and merges, new platform initiatives, and shifts in operating model, including communication planning and manager enablement.
• Leverage p eople da ta and insights at scale to spot trends, surface risks, and inform leadership decisions related to attrition, performan ce, en gagement, span-of-control, and workforce planning.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or related field (Master’s or HR certificationa plus).
• 5+ years of strategic HR Partner role experience.
• Proven background in big tech, fintech, or high-growth environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong business acumen: ability to understand trading/investment business dynamics, financial incentives, performance pressure, and cultural sensitivities.
• Excellentinterpersonal communication and influencing skills; ability to build trust and credibility with senior leadership andteam members.
• Strong conflict resolution, coaching, andemployee-relationsskills.
• Solid knowledge of employment law, compliance, compensation practices, and HR best practices.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, manage sensitive/confidential matters, and adapt to changing priorities.
• Analytical mindset, withabilityto use HR data and metrics to drive decision-making and provide insight to leadership.
• Integrity, discretion, professionalism, and deep respect for confidentiality.

$120,000 - $170,000 a year

Additionally, certain positions at Belvedere Trading are eligible for discretionary bonuses. Our employees have access to a variety of benefits, which can be found on our website here .

Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.

We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer. We welcome your application.

Core Values

The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.

Our Stance

Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.

Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.

Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected] .

Work Schedule: Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours.

Occasional nights and weekends.

Amount of Travel Required: Travel may occasionally be required for off-site events, conferences, or job fairs, depending on the needs of the role.

Physical: Ability to sit and concentrate for long periods of time as well as the ability to lift 30 pounds

Sponsorship: Not available for this position.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.