HR Business Partner
Jump Trading is a global trading firm where traders, engineers, and researchers develop trading strategies, models, infrastructure, and systems across asset classes and time horizons.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a global trading firm focused on research-driven trading and the engineering of scalable models, tools, infrastructure, and execution systems. Its operations combine trading, technology, AI/ML, and quantitative research, and it also runs research and talent programs including conference travel grants and a fellowship program.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You partner with managers on performance coaching, change management, employee relations, and team effectiveness. You provide HR support across the employee lifecycle, contribute to compensation and mobility processes, maintain HR guidelines, ensure employment compliance, support engagement and talent initiatives, resolve issues, and handle sensitive employee matters confidentially.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in an HR Business Partner, HR Generalist, or similar People Operations role
- Experience with employee relations, talent management, compensation, performance management, onboarding, and recruitment
- Experience in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Business acumen
- Experience building relationships and influencing across a global matrixed organization
- Judgment and discretion with confidential information
- Communication, listening, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of employment law, HR compliance, and HR best practices
- Experience with Workday, Greenhouse, Culture Amp, or similar HR systems
- Familiarity with Confluence and Jira
Responsibilities
- Partner with managers on leadership capabilities, performance coaching, change management, employee relations, and team effectiveness
- Provide HR support across onboarding, performance management, training, benefits, leave administration, and transfers
- Contribute to merit, bonus, mobility, transfer, HRIS, and offboarding processes
- Support employee engagement, talent development, succession planning, and retention efforts
- Recommend solutions for workforce planning and organizational effectiveness
- Develop, communicate, and maintain HR guidelines and processes
- Ensure compliance with employment laws, policies, training requirements, and documentation
- Build relationships across management levels and escalate issues appropriately
- Support People Operations initiatives and projects
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- HSA
- FSA
- Dependent care options
- Employer-paid group term life insurance
- Employer-paid AD&D insurance
- Voluntary life insurance
- Voluntary AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation
- Paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness programs
