Senior HR Business Partner

Optiver US LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Optiver is looking for a Senior Human Resources Business Partner who will strategically align HR initiatives with business goals while enhancing a high-performance culture. This role provides an opportunity to work with senior leaders and global teams to drive engagement and ensure compliance in a fast-paced environment, offering competitive compensation and extensive office perks.

Benefits

Highly competitive compensation package

401(k) match up to 50%

Comprehensive health, dental, vision coverage

Extensive office perks, including meals and events

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive HR experience with 5+ years in HRBP role.
• Proven ability to partner with senior leaders in high-change environments.
• Comfortable with data analytics to drive strategy and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Align People initiatives with business objectives to foster growth.
• Lead organizational design and HR program leadership initiatives.
• Champion Optiver’s culture and ensure compliance with labor laws.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical mindset

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources

Professional certifications in HR

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

As a Senior Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP), you will serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to senior leaders and managers across business, providing guidance and support on all aspects of human capital management. You’ll play a critical role in shaping the organizational structure, talent strategy, and culture as we scale with business growth. You’ll work closely with the leadership team and the global people teams to enable high performance, lead through change, and support a globally distributed workforce in a fast-paced environment.

Your primary responsibility will be to align People initiatives with business objectives to promote growth, development, and excellence in execution, fostering a high-performance culture, driving employee engagement, and ensuring compliance with local labor laws and regulations. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including the broader People team, business leaders, and employees to deliver effective People solutions that contribute to the organization's overall success.

What you’ll do:

Strategic Partnership: Act as a trusted partner to business leaders, aligning people strategies with Optiver’s global growth objectives. Collaborate with business leaders to understand organizational needs and translate them into innovative people strategies.

Organizational Design & Effectiveness: Lead initiatives in org design, workforce planning, and scaling team structures to support business growth across markets. Take the lead in creating and improving a human capital management plan that brings together talent, structure, culture, and processes.

Global People Strategy: Actively contribute to the development and implementation of global people initiatives, driving alignment across regions. Contribute to cross-functional, global people projects that drive process improvements and successfully execute projects.

Talent Development: Partner with the People team to build global leadership mobility, career pathing, and succession planning. Guide and coach managers on performance management, compensation strategies, and leadership development. Establish a culture of continuous feedback to foster employee growth.

Culture & Change Management: Champion Optiver’s culture and values, especially during periods of rapid scale, integration and growth.

Data-Driven Insight: Leverage people analytics to identify trends and opportunities, providing actionable insights that influence key strategic decisions. Present key metrics to senior leaders, offering data-informed recommendations.

HR Program Leadership: Partner or lead global HR programs to enhance employee engagement and retention while implementing insights from exit data, ensuring seamless transitions, and driving improvements to reduce turnover.

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
• bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 5 years in a HRBP or strategic HR leadership capacity.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence senior leader in a complex, high-change environments to execute strategic people initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Analytical mindset with experience in using data analytics and metrics to drive strategy and decision-making.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and operating at both strategic and hands-on levels.
• Ability to work in a global, fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate complex People issues.
• A consensus builder who effectively collaborates with peers to achieve and implement solutions to wide-ranging People related problems.
• Knowledge of local labor laws and regulations across multiple states. Professional certifications in HR (e.g., SHRM-SCP, PHR, CIPD) are a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software and the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS talent management and project management systems.

Who we are:

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritise safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.