Talent Development (Early Career) Specialist

What You'll Do:

• Be responsible for partnering with the global Talent Development team to design, drive and execute the high-profile intern and full-time early career talent programs in Singapore (with reach to other APAC offices) across research, trading and technology areas, from strategy and design to day-to-day execution.
• Work closely with technical & business leads and managers to understand business goals, knowledge/skill needs, team fit dynamics, individual growth opportunities available, and route campus talent to high impact areas. Manage campus talent mobility processes with data, transparency, and empathy.
• Collaboratively develop new and creative educational programming & development initiatives geared towards Early Career talent by leveraging industry trends, internal & external resources/experts, and ensuring alignment with local culture, customs and perspectives.
• Partner with stakeholders in the global Early Careers ecosystem (Talent Development, Campus Recruiting, Human Resources, business leaders & mentors) to establish alignment on program structure and goals, educational programming, performance evaluation processes, conversion strategy, internal mobility, employee experience, and retention strategies.
• Serve as the manager for interns full-time campus hires during their onboarding and upfront project work: Set goals, run 1:1s, deliver timely feedback, coach mentors, and address performance risks early in partnership with HR and business leadership.
• Contribute to ops/data/logistical tasks: onboarding, scheduling, communication campaigns, workspace/equipment set up, vendor management, content & material coordination, etc.
• Propose, pilot, and iterate on solutions across the Early Career lifecycle; scale what works and challenge legacy processes when a better approach exists. Ensure that Early Careers initiatives represent and promote Firm's culture.
• Contribute to projects within the broader Talent Development team and People Operations organization as needs arise and ensure alignment across Early Careers efforts and broader organizational programs.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You'll Need:

• At least 5 years of experience working in a Talent/Learning Development, Campus Recruitment or HR Business Partner role, including experience working with campus/early careers talent.
• Experience in financial services, quantitative trading, hedge funds, or high performance technology environments.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills that build relationships at all levels across the organization with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build consensus; has partnered directly with business managers, not just HR - can sit across from a trading desk head or engineering lead, understand their real challenges, and translate them into targeted development interventions.
• Leadership experience & ownership of outcomes, in either people or project management.
• Experience in diagnosing organizational and individual development needs and designing and implementing relevant support/development initiatives.
• Strong business acumen, self-directed, results-oriented and the ability to manage frequently changing priorities and projects, in a flat environment.
• Strong documentation and data fluency, and meticulous, error-free data entry in
• systems like Workday, Learning Management Systems, excel spreadsheets, etc.
• Values clean, complete data and use it to build simple reports/dashboards that
• surface insights and drive decisions.
• Innate curiosity about the work people do and how they do it.
• Reliable and predictable availability.