--- title: 'Benefits Specialist (APAC) at Qube Research & Technologies' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/benefits-specialist-apac-qube-research-technologies-hong-kong-ggkeh246w7dj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Benefits Specialist (APAC) at Qube Research & Technologies - **Company:** Qube Research & Technologies - **Location:** Hong Kong - **Posted:** 2026-03-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/quberesearchandtechnologies/jobs/8465396002 ## Job description Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. ## Who we are looking for In this role, you will play an important part in supporting QRT’s rapidly growing business by helping manage and evolve our employee benefits programmes across multiple APAC locations. Benefits are a key component of our employee value proposition, and your work will directly contribute to QRT’s ability to attract and retain top talent in highly competitive markets. As part of the HR team, you will help ensure our benefits remain competitive, compliant, and aligned with the needs of a fast-growing global organisation. This role offers the opportunity to work across multiple jurisdictions while contributing to the delivery of a best-in-class benefits offering for our employees. ## Your future role within QRT - Support the management of QRT’s benefits programmes across APAC, including health (medical and dental) insurance, retirement and other local benefits - Coordinate insurance renewals and support vendor and broker relationships across the region - Promote benefits programmes through effective employee communications and engagement initiatives - Support benefits benchmarking projects and maintain benefits data and analytics - Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements across all benefit programmes - Liaise with benefits vendors and providers to resolve issues and support programme improvements aligned with local business needs - Act as a point of contact for employee benefits queries, helping employees understand their coverage and resolve claims or benefits-related issues - Support benefits operations, including enrolments and census updates, ensuring data accuracy and timely processing - Identify opportunities to improve benefits processes, tools and programmes to enhance operational efficiency and employee experience - Work closely with the APAC Benefits Manager to support the implementation of the regional benefits strategy ## Your present skillset - 4-6 years’ experience in HR or employee benefits, ideally within a global or multinational organisation - Experience supporting benefits across multiple APAC jurisdictions is advantageous - Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint - Experience using HR systems such as Workday is preferred - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain benefits clearly to employees. - Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy - A collaborative and proactive mindset, with the ability to work effectively both independently and within a team QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance. ## About Qube Research & Technologies ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that deploys data, research, and technology to execute multi-strategy trading across all asset classes. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2018 (spun off from a systematic trading team at Credit Suisse, with roots tracing to 2016) - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (spun out of Credit Suisse's systematic trading team) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Quantitative Hedge Fund / Systematic Investment Management - **Target customers**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and other large allocators) - **Mission/purpose**: To combine data, research, technology, and trading expertise to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for investors. ## Products & Services - **Multi-Strategy Investment Management**: QRT deploys a diverse range of investment strategies across geographies, asset classes (equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, crypto), and time frames (high-frequency to long-term). They operate as a systematic, data-driven hedge fund. - **Quantitative Research & Technology Platform**: The firm's core offering is its proprietary technology and research platform, which enables quantitative researchers, data scientists, and software engineers to develop and execute trading models at scale. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding: Not applicable (privately held, profitable firm). **Assets Under Management (AUM)**: Added $4bn in AUM between the start of 2024 and May 2024, returning 22% from January to April 2024 according to reports. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments). Spun off from Credit Suisse's systematic trading team. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+56.4% YoY** to 1,787 employees. Expanded to 16 offices across 24 countries (including new offices in Dubai, Chicago, and New York). Over 100 active job openings. AUM grew significantly in 2024. ## Competitive Advantages - **Data & Technology Moat**: Combines proprietary research, massive datasets, and advanced technology (including machine learning, low-latency C++/FPGA systems, and cloud infrastructure) to generate alpha across all asset classes and timeframes. - **Multi-Strategy, Multi-Asset Diversification**: Operates across geographies, asset classes, and time horizons, reducing single-strategy risk and allowing capital to flow to the best opportunities. - **Talent Density & Culture**: Rapidly hires top talent from competitors (Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Millennium, Credit Suisse) and top universities. A young, high-performance culture with 74% of staff aged 40 or under. - **Compensation Model**: Over 40% of staff are part of a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance, aligning employee incentives directly with investor returns. ## Strategic Focus - **Aggressive Global Expansion**: Rapidly scaling headcount (+56% YoY) and opening new offices in key financial hubs (Dubai, Chicago, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong). - **Technology & Infrastructure Investment**: Heavy investment in low-latency trading systems, FPGA engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms (Snowflake, Python, C++, C#). - **Talent Acquisition**: Prioritizing hiring top quantitative researchers, software engineers, data scientists, and traders from competitors and top universities. Over 100 open roles globally. - **Crypto & New Asset Classes**: Actively building a crypto trading team and expanding into new asset classes and geographies. ## Why Work Here - **Compensation & Career Growth**: Highly competitive pay. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Over 40% of staff are in a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance. Glassdoor rating of 4.1/5.0, with compensation (4.0) and career opportunities (4.1) as top highlights. - **Culture & Demographics**: Young, high-performance culture (74% of staff aged 40 or under, 38% aged 30 or under). 90% of staff reported good team morale in an internal survey. Described as a "fertile ground for experimental research." - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based depending on role and location. Offices in London (HQ), Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Dubai, Mumbai, Geneva, and more. New London office in Victoria. - **Notable Perks**: Deferred compensation plan with fund performance exposure. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Strong focus on work-life balance initiatives. - **Engineering Culture**: Heavy emphasis on technology (Python, C++, C#, Snowflake, FPGA, low-latency systems, MLflow, Kubernetes). 22% of staff are in Research roles, 6% in Technical roles. Strong support for coding initiatives and academic projects in maths and science. ## Sources 1. [qube-rt.com](https://www.qube-rt.com/) 2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/qube-rt) 3. [efinancialcareers-canada.com](https://www.efinancialcareers-canada.com/news/qube-research-and-technologies-hiring-and-culture) 4. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/quberesearchandtechnologies?page=2) 5. 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