Location: New York

Salary: $170000 - $200000 plus bonus

The Opportunity

The Managing Director Human Resources is a pivotal firmwide leadership role. You will serve as a member of the senior management team aligning talent strategy and corporate policies with our core business objectives. This role goes beyond managing policies; its about shaping our future with an eye towards all stakeholders. You will collaborate with department heads on critical organizational initiatives including workforce evaluation leadership development legal compliance and succession planning. Your experience in labor and immigration laws will be essential as you anticipate and proactively address HR-related needs and implement new corporate policies.

What We Do & Who We Are

Group One is a proprietary trading firm specializing in market making and liquidity providing strategies in options markets. Our traders provide competitive liquidity across a broad range of securities by managing complex portfolios of underlying issues and simultaneously streaming quotes across multiple exchanges.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Group One we value transparency and collaboration coming from unique perspectives and backgrounds. We strive to create a workplace in which all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business.

The Challenge

We are looking for a strategic leader to tackle the critical challenges our firm faces. Your primary focus will be to transform our HR function ultimately integrating recruiting and traditional HR into a unified high-impact department. This requires a highly collaborative approach to build strong working relationships with our long-tenured senior management team who have a deep understanding of our culture and business goals. You will work to enhance our New York HR presence while leveraging the established expertise of our Chicago teams. Ultimately you will play a crucial role in our future ensuring our policies meet evolving needs and leading succession planning for key senior leaders over the coming years.

The Skill Set and Responsibilities

A broad skill set will help you be successful in this role. The essential responsibilities are outlined below.

• Department Management: Build and manage a team of HR and recruiting professionals in New York and Chicago offices.
• Policy Development: Ensure all firm policies are designed to meet our goals and initiatives while complying with federal state and local regulations.
• Talent Acquisition and Management: Work with department heads to forecast headcount needs developing plans to recruit to the firms needs. Serve as a resource to our employees throughout their employment from onboarding through performance reviews and professional growth and leadership development.
• Benefits Administration: Perform annual benefit renewal process with brokers and open enrollment activity for the firm. Manage the firms benefits offering including Health Insurance FSA 401k etc.
• Compensation Planning: Work with CEO CFO and department heads in developing and maintaining competitive compensation plans. Schedule all annual compensation meetings.
• Immigration Policy and Procedures: Oversee immigration policy in collaboration with legal counsel including deep knowledge of OPT/CPT H-1B Visa and PERM Visa processing.
• Governmental Compliance: Maintain updated knowledge and understanding of US feeral and state employment and labor laws regulations procedures and standards.

Qualifications

• Ten plus years of Human Resources experience including four years of management experience. Experience in a trading environment or financial services desired but not required.
• Strong management and team building skills. Experience managing remotely located team members a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and build strong relationships across the company from the leadership team to traders to software developers.
• Comfort in managing highly sensitive matters maintaining confidentiality and objectivity.
• Impeccable ethics and integrity in all aspects.
• Immigration and labor law expertise is strongly preferred.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Adaptable and highly flexible personality.
• Self-Motivated dependable and responsible team player.
• Problem solver who is driven self-motivated and proactive in approach.

What to Expect As Managing Director Human Resources

Within 1 month you will:

• Complete your initial orientation as well as become familiar with our environment our team and our business.
• Begin a comprehensive cross-functional training plan to learn more about every aspect of our firm and HRs impact.

Within 3 months you will:

• Understand all HR processes including payroll benefits performance evaluations etc.
• Develop an understanding of Group One its business leaders departmental functions and employees.
• Start to build relationships with managers and employees across the firm.

Within 6 months you will:

• Drive key processes including policy evaluation performance reviews compensation planning hiring forecasting payroll and benefits open enrollment.
• Be sought out as an advisor and subject matter expert by our management team and employees.

The Benefits

We provide competitive compensation including a performance-based bonus and comprehensive benefits including health insurance group life insurance long-term disability coverage and a 401(k) with annual company addition we ensure our people have at least three weeks of paid vacation in addition to sick leave and paid holidays. Group One gladly sponsors qualified international candidates selected to join our -person interview expenses for travel and childcare will be reimbursed by Group One.

Required Experience:

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