People Operations Coordinator

About the role

• Location: New York City (in-office, 5 days a week)
• Compensation: $70,500
• Experience: 0-2 years

Team: People Operations, a shared resource across Lateral Recruiting, HR Business Partners, and Program Management & Training

Summary

We're looking for an organized, proactive early-career professional to join our People Operations team as a People Operations Coordinator. This role is a shared resource across Lateral Recruiting, HR Business Partners, and Program Management & Training. You'll be the go-to person who keeps onboarding, training logistics, and recruiting coordination running smoothly. It's a great entry point for someone who wants broad exposure to how a high-growth investment bank attracts, onboards, and develops its people.

Primary Responsibilities

Training & Program Support

• Support promotion program trainings, including scheduling, general material preparation, and sitting in where needed
• Attend and help facilitate New York class and intern trainings
• Schedule training for new hires (interns, class hires, and laterals) using the training calendar, and coordinate materials for the associated sessions

Onboarding

• Complete onboarding tasks for lateral and class hires, including:
• Transferring new hire information from Greenhouse (our applicant tracking system) into our proprietary database
• Saving new hire headshots to our internal systems
• Drafting the welcome email announcing new hires to the firm
• Update the mentor tracker when new hires join or when mentors are reassigned

Recruiting Support

• Review resume packs and move qualified candidates forward for each open role
• Schedule first-round interviews with recruiting leads
• Organize and prepare offer approvals, incorporating interviewer feedback
• Draft offer letters
• Use AI tools, including Claude, to build and maintain offer letter and offer approval templates that improve speed and consistency
• Support the UK recruiting team with coordination and administrative tasks
• Support campus recruiting, including scheduling, logistics, and candidate communication
• Support the summer intern and full time analyst training programs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Education, Organizational Development, or a related field, with strong academic achievement
• 0-2 years of experience in HR, recruiting, learning and development, or a related coordination role; internships count
• Exposure to financial services (investment banking, private equity, or professional services) is a plus
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines at once
• Strong written and verbal communication, and a service-oriented approach to working with colleagues at all levels
• Sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to handle confidential information with integrity
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Comfort using AI tools to streamline documents and workflows; experience with Claude is a plus
• Self-starter who can work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Eligibility to work in the US without sponsorship
• Excellent professional references

Team Player

• Contributes to a positive team spirit, keeps commitments, and works with integrity and ethics
• Performs well under pressure and tight deadlines, and plans and prioritizes effectively
• Collaborates across teams and levels, internally and externally
• Willing to lend a hand across the People Operations team to accomplish shared goals
• Interested in coaching and long-term development of self and others

Why FT Partners?

• Managing Partner and Managing Directors formerly of Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Evercore, Qatalyst and JP Morgan
• Award-winning execution, including Investment Bank of the Year and Boutique of the Year awards
• Billion-dollar transactions alongside early-stage, high-growth VC deals
• Excellent career path and strong, competitive compensation
• Unparalleled deal flow with a premier client base
• Access to world-class executives at high-growth companies
• Dominant footprint in one of the largest sectors: financial technology
• Top-notch financial sponsor relationships
• Close-knit, rapidly growing team