Symmetry Investments is a global investment company with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Jersey and Cayman Islands. We have been in business since 2014 after successfully spinning off from a major New York-based hedge fund.

At Symmetry Investments, we seek to engage in intelligent risk-taking to create value for our clients, partners and employees. We derive our edge from our capacity to generate Win-Wins – in the broadest sense. Win-Win is our fundamental ethical and strategic principle. By generating Win-Wins, we can create unique solutions that reconcile perspectives that are usually seen as incompatible or opposites, and encompass the best that each side has to offer:

We integrate fixed-income arbitrage with global macro strategies in a novel way. 

We invent and develop technology that focuses on the potential of human-machine integration.

We build systems where machines do what they do best, supporting people to do what people do best.

We are creating a collaborative meritocracy: a culture where individual contribution serves both personal and collective goals - and is rewarded accordingly. 

We value both ownership thinking AND cooperative team spirit, self-realization AND community.

The Role

Symmetry is looking for an exceptional candidate to join our growing Strategic Execution team as an Executive Assistant. Among the traits we value are: curiosity, motivation, resourcefulness, good taste, common sense, a commercial orientation, humility, courage, and we would be particularly interested in candidates with some programming knowledge, although this is not a pre-requisite. We value virtue and capability over experience and credentials, although those are also valuable.

The position will involve a combination of administrative work along with project management and research work. The ability to write well will be very helpful. Our team interacts with colleagues across the firm as well as with senior management. Honesty with a sense of humour, openness to new ideas, and humility to accept and respond to feedback are valuable. An interest in technology and programming is not a pre-requisite, but we value technical ability and mechanical sympathy.

Our interview process is not a cookie cutter process and changes based on the candidate. In general, you should expect:

- An introductory meeting and an aptitude assessment. The aptitude assessment is not a pass/fail test, and we do the same aptitude assessment for all candidates coming to Symmetry - so it cannot be a test of competency for a certain role. We're trying to understand what you're good at and what you're bad at, to try to form a role around your strengths and weaknesses.

- A meeting with a member of the team for an open discussion on your background, experiences and how you may fit into the team.

- A meeting with someone technical. We're not looking for everyone to be a software developer, but we do like having technical people meet candidates to see how they approach complex problems, how they can break them down and solve them, and how they learn.

- Iteration from there, based on the feedback from the interviews and any further interviews to try to figure out where you'd best fit within Symmetry and what role we can create for you.