Hong Kong Startups that are Hiring (Part 2)
Hong Kong Tech & Startups Job Fair #9 Special Feature
Here at WHub, we promote entrepreneurship and help startups find the resources they need to scale their business. That’s why we collaborate once again with InvestHK for a job fair during StartMeUp festival to help pair up great talents with startups.
Behind every great startup, there’s an awesome idea, but what makes it successful is the team behind that do the execution and make the idea come to life. Are you ready to join a startup and contribute your awesomeness to the company’s success? But first, you need to find a team that truly fits you.
We are going to introduce another 7 startups that will join us at the Job Fair this time, so you can know a bit more about the startup team before coming to meet them in person. Miss our last article? Click here to check it out!
And click here to secure your free ticket to come meet all awesome startups during the job fair.
ANX International
(Click here to see all their current job openings)
What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
Young & exuberant with a can-do attitute
What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
ANX Group is the leader of blockchain solution in the region. The group provides ANX Exchange Services, Advisory Servies, Academy, exchange platforms, digital and recruitment service
Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
Christmas Parties, Monthly Birthday Celebrations
What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
Periodic Training on up-to-date Industry Knowledge
What excites you about your company’s future?
The company’s growing statue in the Cryptocurrency world, as well as its ongoing diversification of professional services offering to external customers
BloomMe
(Click here to see all their current job openings)
What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
In 2017, BloomMe released its spa management software BloomMe Pro to the Hong Kong market. The software combines complete time slot management for beauty spas with advanced CRM functionality and a real-time connection with the BloomMe booking apps as a fully automated sales channel. This has generated unprecedented booking convenience for our customers and is unleashing new insights into the behaviour of our merchants’ customers.
Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
We host formal and informal customer and employee events from time to time. This includes the “BloomMe Girls Night Out” series of customer pampering events as well as our annual Christmas party and ad hoc events to celebrate significant milestones such as product launches or investment rounds.
What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
BloomMe is a learning organisation and depending on the department we foster continuous employee development by supporting respective education efforts.
What excites you about your company’s future?
The asian beauty booking market is clustered and mobile solutions are in their infancy across most markets. In fact, most spas still use pen and paper to manage their bookings, which prohibits off-business-hour bookings and binds employee time. The BloomMe suite of booking solutions is poised to provide significant efficiency gains and insights into a spa’s bookings and will transform how beauty services are consumed in Asia.
Nowwwhat
(Click here to see all their current job openings)
What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
We look forward to work with individuals who are playful, ambitious and smart. We don’t expect you know everything, but its essential to have the right attitude and willingness to learn.
What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
One of our post have 150k reach on facebook. we broke the record of online marking for financial app in Hong Kong, this is a great achievement for our whole team
Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
we do regular happy hour drinks on Friday nights
What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
We will provide training subsidies to employees. We want to nurture a continuous learning culture within the company.
What excites you about your company’s future?
We are going to disrupt the retail financial market, which we already have many plans in mind, but we need more partners in crime to execute our great plan :)
Odoo
(Click here to see all their current job openings)
What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
We are looking for smart people with common sense. Our employees have usually and international background and are really open minded.
“Work hard — play hard “ is out motto!
What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
Reaching 1.9 million in billing for Odoo Hong Kong! New Office!
Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
Yes our company propose sports events, team building, weekly drinks and team lunch.
What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
Odoo’s people are constantly in contact with different industries and different kind of people. On a daily basis you we deal with issues from CEO’s, Sales managers, accountant, Warehouse manager etc.
People have to continuously challenge themselves to be up to date with the software and make sure they are able to solve the customers pain points with Odoo apps by offering great tools to help companies grow and improve their business operations.
What excites you about your company’s future?
Odoo is growing a lot (94 % growth in 2017) and will continue to do so. We are planning to double the team in Hong Kong and recruit 1000 employees internationally.
Odoo is disrupting the market with a product that is flexible, fully integrated and easy to use.
Oyalabs
(Click here to see all their current job openings)
What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
Passion for education and/or technology, hunger for learning, giving mentality, single-minded focus on delivering value to the user and the product, integrity, professionalism.
What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
Our first product Wordle won the Best of BabyTech Awards at the CES conference in Las Vegas in January 2018. We have also just graduated from the worlds largest hardware accelerator called HAX in Shenzhen, received investment from Johnson & Johnson and manufactured our first working prototype!
Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
Yes! We love good food and outdoor activities, like hiking in San Kung or road trips when we move to the US.
What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
As a small, agile team, we give each of our employees a lot of autonomy and oversight over their areas of expertise and give them the chance to grow this area in our Team. This involves going beyond execution and being involved in the company’s operations, strategic planning and networking with mentors and fellow entrepreneurs. We are also constantly looking to leverage various startup support schemes, including grants, acceleration programs and free resources so that we can invest in each of our employee’s personal and professional growth.
What excites you about your company’s future?
There are endless possibilities in how our technology could be applied to bring about impact in fields such as education, productivity, ageing, research, speech therapy and many more. We are starting with early childhood education and our goal is to drive systemic change and reimagine how we raise children through data-driven parenting. We re excited to strive towards this big mission and looking for passionate talents who would like to help us achieve it.
Tink Labs
(Click here to see all their current job openings)
What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
As a travel technology company, Tink Labs is always exploring and innovating at what we do, our people matter most because our visions are aligned.
Our six key qualities are:
Owning it: taking responsibility and being accountable
Sticking with it: working with relentless resilience
Questioning it: being critical and staying curious
Being on top of it: working with purpose and urgency
Perfecting it: striving to always do things better
Crushing it: being bold, creative and impactful
What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
handy is already available in 80 countries around the world, covering 600,000 hotel rooms and has helped over 25 million global travelers stay connected.
In more mature markets of the handy network, the penetration rates are: Hong Kong (40%), Singapore (60%), Tokyo (65%), London (30%).
We are a trusted partner of leading hotel groups including AccorHotels, Intercontinental, Sheraton, and more. handy Japan team has expanded into 200,000 rooms in a year’s time in 2017.
Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
We have town hall meetings globally every quarter as part of our internal communications policy that is crucial to keep our 400+ employees well aware of the latest news, strategy and directions of the company.
We also organize Friday casual lunch at the office regularly as a social mixer for different disciplines within the company. Our function leads across product, creative, engineering, launch and hospitality will organize respective social events with team members.
What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
As a startup that evolves very quickly in what we do, we offer various inductions and training sessions for our employees regularly to communicate the company vision. The scope of each role generally offers a much bigger involvement across different teams, for example, you might be working in digital and help to maximise the company’s online search profiling to running projects for sales to help designing new pitch material for the whole company, the job exposure offered is broad and learning opportunities are endless.
What excites you about your company’s future?
Tink Labs envisions to become a vital component and centrepiece of modern travel, as crucial to the traveler’s experience as the room they stay in. With the entire global Tink Labs community of over 400 employees, we are targeting to build the world’s largest tourism platform, a seamless ecosystem that covers the entire travel journey with a full suite of exciting products.
vivovii
(Click here to see all their current job openings)
What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
Every one of our team members can be characterized as honest, open, people with integrity and a high-level of self-awareness.
What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
We coordinated across 3 offices to meet a tight client deadline for feature deployment. On the ground in HK, by putting our heads together, we were able to over-deliver and wow the client! We built the feature in less time it took them to confirm the plan!
Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
Yes, we host regular happy hours and find new things to do for our monthly team activities. Some of the team building activities we have done previously are bowling, beer pong, laser tag, hiking, and VR gaming.
What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
Personal and career development is knit into the fabric of our day to day life at vivovii. As part of our quarterly career coaching sessions, we set our own personal goals and objectives and the company is committed to supporting them.
What excites you about your company’s future?
We’re true pioneers in trying to optimize human potential by combining research and science with the best of technology. Our clients are excited to part of this movement and our team is energized to innovate, create and deliver.
