Hong Kong Startups that are Hiring (Part 3)

Hong Kong Tech & Startups Job Fair #9 Special Feature

The Hong Kong Tech & Startups Job Fair is around the corner! Have you secured your free ticket to join us at the job fair? If not, you might want to do it now: click me!

These 26 startups are joining us for the job fair this time, make sure you don’t miss the opportunity to meet them all in a 1-day job fair! And before you come join us on February 2, learn more about each startup team here!

Job Fair Startup Feature: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Accelerate

(Click here to see all their current job openings)

What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?

We look for someone who is dynamic, enthusiastic, hard working, a team player, a quick learner who has a positive attitude and a sense of humour.

What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?

We are celebrating our One Year Anniversary on January 26, 2018.

Does the company host social outings or events for employees?

Yes, we have team lunches and dinners, happy hour drinks, board games, gaming activities, team hikes, self-development workshops.

What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?

Team members are able to enrol in any of our part-time courses for free a. We have weekly team meetings where we share information across teams and problem solve issues together.

What excites you about your company’s future?

We are impacting lives every day and we are expanding at an accelerated rate.

Aftership

(Click here to see all their current job openings)

What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?

• For engineers — passion for coding is a must-have trait!
• Fun people who enjoy a good laugh, those have great sportsmanship and work well in a team-setting.
• People who are excited to work for a mature startup (we have been profitable since 2011!), we are very fast-paced and have vigorous plans for further growth in 2018 & 2019!

What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?

• We developed 3 product and expanding our service offerings.
• Our crew grew beyond 30 members in HK and nearly 10 in India!

Does the company host social outings or events for employees?

Yes we do!

• Daily: Unlimited fuel (drinks and snacks)
• Weekly: Happy hours
• Random: Beer-Tap-On-Demand, training with pizzas, etc
• Quarterly: Boat junk parties, barbecues, wargame, hotpot, Christmas party, etc)
• Yearly: Hackathon

What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?

• We host trainings and looking to update our learning and development offerings.
• Hired a Scrum Master to teach us Scrum methodologies and agile framework.

What excites you about your company’s future?

• Unlimited growth potential, our clients are no longer consisting only of global eCommerce retailers, PayPal is a great example!
• We are already a one-stop-shop eCommerce retailers for post-sales and looking to further expand our service and product offerings.

Datum

(Click here to see all their current job openings)

What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?

Successful completion of the ICO.

Does the company host social outings or events for employees?

Yes, we are planning a cruise to Croatia for our Team in June 2018.

What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?

Learning by Doing.

What excites you about your company’s future?

DATA is the new Oil, our future is so bright I need to wear shades!

Neat

(Click here to see all their current job openings)

What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?

Passionate and excited about the product we’re building

What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?

We just got to 1,000+ companies on our waiting list for Neat Business 😁

Does the company host social outings or events for employees?

Yes. In fact, we’re going on an offsite in the Japanese mountains in March! Be sure to join us before then if you want to join the trip 😉

What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?

Each and every employee gets a lot of responsibility and trust. As we’re still a small team (~15 people), you’ll always be involved in different areas of the business and pick up new skills

What excites you about your company’s future?

We help entrepreneurs build their companies. There is huge potential in Hong Kong to shake up the banking industry

ofo

(Click here to see all their current job openings)

What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?

ofo is where we are today because we hire people who are more determined than others, to make a difference. We recently asked our team members about the traits each member must have and identified the following 5 top traits.

• Motivation — Believe in ofo and its Mission, totally prepared to hit the ground running and learn as they go.
• Hunger — Craving for more responsibility, willing to sacrifice
• Action — Oriented towards action, ready-set-go approach
• Fearless — Independent contributor who don’t need constant monitoring, unafraid to ask questions, be humble, learn from failures and mistakes
• Sharp — Someone smarter or edgier than you, having a proven risk-taking mentality and approach

Besides these traits, we need people who are responsible and also resilient : Think total responsibility for the outcomes of your work — no excuses, no shifting blame, just results !

What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?

If you didn’t know already know, we ended 2017 with the successful expansion into Hong Kong in December! (More than 250 cities were launched across the globe)

Not many people know that we disrupted without having a single member onboard in Hong Kong! In the last couple of months we have hired our first market expansion team and are now looking for the first 10- 15 members to make it happen all across the various districts.

Does the company host social outings or events for employees?

We work smart and play hard! We regularly organize a variety of company meals and social outings for our employees to not only get to know people from other departments, introduce new members, but to also, bond with one another outside of their busy schedules. The most recent team bonding meal we had was to celebrate Christmas and to welcome the New Year.

What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?

Yes, plenty! We prefer to look from within to help our talents develop by providing the best platform for on-the-job training. To develop the potential in everyone, we provide cross-functional sharing sessions; you can even learn how to fix a bicycle! Training roadmaps are in development to support continuous learning throughout their ride with ofo.

What excites you about your company’s future?

We have just started expansion in multiple markets across the region. We are all definitely excited to pivot across early stage growth to the next stage, while driving change in the world’s transportation culture with our long term goal of supporting sustainability.