Job Fair #11: Startups Hiring in Hong Kong (Legaltech, E-commerce, B2B and Gaming/VR startups)
Hong Kong Tech & Startups Job Fair #11 Special Feature
This is the second article of the series, if you want to look at the FinTech and Software startups exhibiting (Crypto.com, Imago, Liana Technologies, Neat and Tiancai), click here.
WHub is excited to host the Hong Kong Tech & Startups Job Fair #11 at Startup Impact Summit. Startup Impact Summit is one of the core events of the 2019 StartmeupHK Festival which WHub is hosting in conjunction with Invest HK!
We are taking this opportunity to showcase all the WHubbers that will join us at the job fair. This article features Agorize Asia, Animoca Brands, OnTheList, Retykle, Think it Twice and Zegal.
Excited to meet the startup teams in person? Click here to secure your ticket to the job fair for free!
1.What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members? Self motivated and people who align with our core values of passion, team work and humility
2. What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
Having a team of 18 in Asia with 40+ clients and 2 new offices in SG & Tokyo in a span of 2 years
3. Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
Team building twice a year and team lunches and lot more coming soon.
4. What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
Multitasking, learning from your own mistakes and never get stagnated in your comfort zone while working amicably with 10 different nationalities under 1 roof.
5. What excites you about your company’s future?
With our unique product , first mover advantage and a fantastic core team we are on the right track to be a prominent player in innovation space in Asia.
- What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
We are looking for dynamic, self-motivated and flexible team players who want to stay ahead of the curve.
2. What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
Animoca Brands was named one of the world’s Top 50 Developers in 2018 by PocketGamer.biz, the world’s leading B2B mobile games industry portal! The Top 50 Developers represent the best game companies from across the sector, with Fortnite developer, Epic Games, coming in first place. The list also includes industry titans like Tencent, NetEase, King, Netmarble, Roblox, Supercell, Playrix, Com2us, and Peak Games.
3. Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
We host social outings and team building events such as movie afternoons, happy hour drinks and host an annual pumpkin carving contest, Christmas party and Spring Dinner. We also have a game room with a Switch console, VR set and fitness equipment and there is a basketball court outside the office.
4. What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
We hold team sharing sessions, invite guest speakers to come in, host workshops, provide opportunities to attend industry conferences and events, and for certain roles, there is the potential for sponsored study or exchange programs with one of our international subsidiaries.
5. What excites you about your company’s future?
There is a lot of opportunity to change the landscape for how players engage with games and we are excited about how we will build these new experiences and drive large scale adoption for blockchain and AI technologies in the gaming space!
1.What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members? We are looking for candidates who work with passion, challenge the norm and make brilliant ideas happen. All of our team members share and live with our core values — Operational Expertise, Growth, Sense of Purpose and Great People.
2. What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
In our 3 years, we have reached 170K members who are invited by email to our weekly flash sales event. Last year, OnTheList successfully organised 65 flash sales events in store and 90 sales online with over 200 brands in Hong Kong. Around 300,000 items are sold last year. Our best event has recorded over 10K people visiting our showroom between 3–4 day!
We also launched in Singapore with monthly pop up sales offline and online. We are lucky to have nearly 3K shoppers visiting us across our 4-day sale and more that 80% of stocks cleared.
3. Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
Great people is one of our shared values. We have birthday celebrations every month and festival celebration with all team members. Also, we organise team building activities in order for team members to strengthen our relationships.
4. What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
We put a high focus on developing each member level of expertise, autonomy and scope of influence with the team and the company. Besides, we offer a flat structure with real opportunity to work with our Co-founders to build the future of OnTheList. Being one of the top fastest growing startups in Hong Kong, our team members can enjoy flexible working culture and responsible from day one with a steep learning curve.
5. What excites you about your company’s future?
This month, we are going to celebrate our 3rd anniversary with a series of events! In 2019, we hope we can bring in more desired brands to our Hong Kong and Singapore members. We are looking forward to having more and more sales in Singapore and a permanent showroom there. We will launch our first flash sales in Taiwan in March with a well-known partner. Besides, we are looking to see if we can bring in the flash sales concept into China market in Q3 or Q4 this year.
1.What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members? Integrity, passion, curiosity, drive and creativity.
2. What was the last big achievement that was celebrated? We celebrated a great year of achievements as a team in December and shared a recap of our achievements to our customers via newsletter so that they could take pride in the impact they have created as a community of Retyklers.
3. Does the company host social outings or events for employees? We have monthly team lunches, birthday celebrations, quarterly team outings and Friday drinks. We also volunteer for our partner charities at least once per year.
4. What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
Each team member is provided a budget and encouraged to seek out external learning and development opportunities offline and online. We also have quarterly internal trainings so that team members can further learn from each other as well as work on their presentation skills. We encourage team members to sit on panels and seek out personal opportunities to present on behalf of the company.
5. What excites you about your company’s future? Resale is anticipated to outpace fast fashion sales within 10 years. This is good news for the planet and our kids futures. Retykle is helping to pave the future of circular retail at scale.
- What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members? Open-minded, fun-loving, innovative
- What was the last big achievement that was celebrated? Won a major new contract with a world-renowned brand
- Does the company host social outings or events for employees? Yes, but we are small team; things are spontaneous
- What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees? We have very ambitious growth plans which means learning opportunities for everyone who is part of the journey
- What excites you about your company’s future? We have created some truly innovate and new and we have just begun…..
- What personality traits do you look for in your ideal team members?
Passionate, enthusiastic, compassionate, energetic and a good team player!
2. What was the last big achievement that was celebrated?
We sold-out our annual industry thought-leadership conference and went on to complete a successful round of funding giving us multi-year runway!
3. Does the company host social outings or events for employees?
From group-outdoor activities to team dinners, we strongly value growing as a team both professionally and personally — we’re all part of one big family.
4. What continuing learning opportunities do you have for your employees?
Development in a startup is fluid and our team is encouraged to get involved and experience working with other teams where possible.
5. What excites you about your company’s future?
Zegal is reaching new heights year-on-year; the technology stack is evolving, the ambitions stellar, and the friendships discovered makes it an awesome company to grow with.
Excited to meet the startup teams in person? Click here to secure your ticket to the job fair for free!
