Performance Manager

Company Description

BHFT is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm. Our team manages the full trading cycle, from software development to creating and coding strategies and algorithms.

Our trading operations cover key exchanges. The firm trades across a broad range of asset classes, including equities, equity derivatives, options, commodity futures, rates futures, etc. We employ a diverse and growing array of algorithmic trading strategies, utilizing both High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Medium-Frequency Trading (MFT) approaches. Looking ahead, we are expanding into new markets and products. As a dynamic company, we continuously experiment with new markets, tools, and technologies.

We’ve got a team of 200+ professionals, with a strong emphasis on technology—70% are technical specialists in development, infrastructure, testing, and analytics spheres. The remaining part of the team supports our business operations, such as Risks, Compliance, Legal, Operations and more.

Our employees are located all around the world, from the United States to Hong Kong. Although we maintain office spaces, we currently operate as a 100% remote organization.

At BHFT, clarity and transparency are at the core of our culture: we value open communication, ensuring that our processes are straightforward.

Job Description

Join our team as Performance Manager with a knack for turning insights into action. In this central role, you’ll design and manage systems that track employee performance and align day-to-day efforts with our broader mission. We need someone with a consulting background who thrives on digging into data to uncover what’s working, what’s not, and how we can evolve.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a company-wide performance management system, leveraging OKRs, KPIs, scorecards, or other appropriate methodologies. This should cascade from the executive level down to teams and individual contributors, enabling the timely identification of high-potential, high-performing, and underperforming employees and defining bonus structures.

• Once the system is established, proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement and optimization.

• Collaborate with department heads to analyze functional performance and adapt metrics to align with departmental objectives.

• Identify inefficiencies within the organizational structure, roles, and processes, and escalate these findings to functional leaders.

• Create reports and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making.

• Establish a transparent and easily understood system for providing feedback related to performance evaluations.

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting, auditing, strategy, or HR with a strong focus on employee performance management and effectiveness evaluation.

• Proven experience implementing OKRs, KPIs, performance scorecards, or similar systems within organizations of 100 to 500 employees (or comparable-sized divisions).

• Track record of covering the entire lifecycle, from creation and implementation to ongoing support, and demonstrated business results showing the system's effectiveness (bonus points for system refinements or enhancements).

• Strong data skills: ability to collect, clean, visualize, and interpret data.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage in clear and data-driven dialogues with senior leadership.

Ideal Candidate:

• Not afraid to dive deep into unfamiliar processes and ask insightful questions.

• Can translate strategic goals into measurable metrics.

• Prioritizes achieving concrete results over strict adherence to methodology.

• Understands the true value lies not in the system itself, but in how effectively it is utilized.

Additional Information

What we offer:

• Experience a modern international technology company without the burden of bureaucracy.

• Collaborate with industry-leading professionals, including former employees of Tower, DRW, Broadridge, Credit Suisse, and more.

• Enjoy excellent opportunities for professional growth and self-realization.

• Work remotely from anywhere in the world with a flexible schedule.

• Receive compensation for health insurance, sports activities, and non-professional training.