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title: 'RTI Researcher (US Timezone) at nahc.io'
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# RTI Researcher (US Timezone) at nahc.io

- **Company:** nahc.io
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/nahc/5d49a9e0-524f-498d-89a2-49c243d00e85

## Job description

Our client is seeking researchers for our real-time information flows team. We believe there is an unexploited opportunity in crypto markets reacting to real-time market moving news.

## What You Will Do

- Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities.
- Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information.
- Maintain a detailed calendar of material events.
- Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes.
- Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources.
- Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities.
- Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change.
- Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient
- Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system
- QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality.

## What You Will Need

- Experience & Knowledge:
- Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news.
- Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process.
- Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time.
- Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems.
- Technical & Analytical Skills:
- Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck).
- Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics.
- Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics.
- Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL.
- Operational & Communication Skills:
- High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously.
- Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers.

## About nahc.io

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A full-service recruitment agency providing talent acquisition and human capital solutions for startups and innovative companies across Asia.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped, no funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Hong Kong, Hong Kong (with offices in Singapore and Taipei)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Lawrence Chan (Co-founder & CEO), Cicely Leung (Co-founder & Head of Recruitment – Tech & Digital), Zoie Lin (Co-founder & Head of Recruitment – Commercial & Operations), Charlotte Wong (Co-founder & Head of Client Engagement & Partnerships)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Human Resources Services (Recruitment & Staffing)
- **Target customers**: B2B – startups, innovative companies, and businesses undergoing transformation in Asia
- **Mission/purpose**: “To empower people to make the best informed decision for their career or for their business in talent recruitment.” The company aims to change the recruitment industry by offering a non-transactional, relationship-driven experience.

## Products & Services
- **Talent Acquisition**: Core recruitment services covering Sales, Marketing, Information Technology, Human Resources, Strategy & Operations, Finance, and Web3. The firm vets and shares candidate profiles quickly (48-hour turnaround) and boasts a 94% probation pass rate for placed candidates.
- **Bespoke Human Capital Solutions**: Advisory services for scaling companies, including remote worker hiring and remote office setup, employer branding, HR systems/process setup, and startup hiring/scaling advisory.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated between $1M–$5M (per LinkedIn company data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors identified; the firm appears to be bootstrapped. Key partnerships are not publicly listed.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - LinkedIn followers: 1,825 (+9.2% year-over-year)
  - Expanding presence: active hiring for a Business Development Manager in Taipei (Taiwan) as of early 2026
  - 11,000+ candidates in their talent community across APAC
  - However, headcount declined 22.2% YoY to 4 employees (as of latest data), indicating a lean, focused team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Relationship-first approach**: Emphasizes long-term relationships over transactional placements, building trust with both clients and candidates.
- **Asia-specific expertise**: Deep understanding of the Asian startup ecosystem, with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and now Taipei.
- **High-quality placements**: 94% of placed candidates pass probation, and the firm provides a 48-hour profile turnaround.
- **Bespoke solutions**: Offers not just recruitment but full human capital advisory (HR systems, employer branding, remote setup) – a differentiator for early-stage companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Moving into new markets like Taiwan (Taipei) while solidifying presence in Hong Kong and Singapore.
- **Scaling human capital solutions**: Growing the advisory side of the business (HR systems, remote hiring, employer branding) to become a holistic partner for startups.
- **Investing in people**: Committed to continuous skills training for its own team, aiming to build a talent advisory force that can provide genuine, ethical recommendations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: “People-first” ethos with a strong emphasis on ethical conduct, transparency, and long-term relationships. The team is small (4 people), offering direct mentorship from the founders.
- **Growth opportunities**: The firm “invests in our people through continuous skills training and new opportunities.” Internships are available for university students, providing hands-on experience mentored by founders.
- **Work environment**: Offices in Hong Kong (Sheung Wan) and Singapore (Vision Exchange). The Taipei role is listed as on-site. Remote/hybrid policy is not explicitly stated, but the company advises on remote hiring for clients.
- **Unique perk**: The company uses AI tools to support hiring (resume review, analysis) but notes that final decisions are made by humans – transparency in their own hiring process.
- **Impact**: As a small team, employees can directly shape the company’s growth and have a tangible impact on candidates’ careers and clients’ businesses.

## Sources
1. [nahc.io](https://www.nahc.io/)
2. [nahc.io/about-us](https://www.nahc.io/about-us)
3. [nahc.io/join-us](https://www.nahc.io/join-us)
4. [linkedin.com/company/nahc-io](https://linkedin.com/company/nahc-io)
5. [jobs.lever.co/nahc](https://jobs.lever.co/nahc)

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