Christine Koh

Key Achievements & Metrics

• Consistently rated Exceeding Expectations twice yearly since joining and recognized with an Outstanding Performance Rating in H2 2024 (top 10% of team) Achieved hiring OKRs: 113% in H2 2024, 143% in H1 2024 , 138% in H2 2023, 121% in H1 2023, and 117% in H2 2022; all 94 hires were sourced directly, without using recruitment agencies
• Average time-to-hire: 1.3 months (team average: 2 months); offer acceptance rate: 84% (team average: 70%)
• Boosted offer acceptance rate for the KYC Technology team from 62% in H2 2024 to 83% in H1 2025 by leveraging rejection insights, promoting team strengths and values, and improving recruiters' education to elevate candidate experience and strengthen their understanding of the team’s unique appeal

Strategic Recruitment Leadership & Program Management

• Recruitment Point of Contact for KYC Technology, Pay&Card, Binance Accelerator Program (tech internship), and Binance Seeds (early-careers program), managing headcount, standardizing interviews, tracking weekly hiring progress, and analyzing recruitment metrics to identify and address challenges
• Owned cross-regional recruitment across APAC, MENA, and Eastern Europe for Trading Technology, Compliance Technology, and Web3 teams, covering roles from Architects, Software Engineers, Smart Contract Developers, and Security Engineers to Product Managers, Operations, and PR/Marketing across mid to executive levels
• Designed and launched the 2024 Web3 Young Talent Program with a 100% fill rate in 2 months, influencing Binance’s early-careers strategy that inspired Binance Seeds
• Rebranded and launched Binance Seeds, the official early-careers program, delivering a new careers landing page within two weeks by designing the initial layout, drafting content, and collaborating with Development, Product, Marketing, and Legal teams
• Developed a soft skills competency framework integrated into screening calls to enhance early-career candidate assessment quality for the recruitment team
• Developed the Binance Seeds SOP to streamline recruitment and hiring processes, providing clear guidance for teams
• Implemented weekly tracking of Binance Seeds hiring progress resulting in 31 hires within 2.5 months

Recruitment Insights & Training

• Delivered crypto/web3 hiring trend reports and competitor mapping to support regional strategy in APAC
• Designed and delivered Binance’s Unique Selling Point training to enhance the recruitment team’s understanding of company branding, improving the offer acceptance rate by 14% in H2 2024
• Designed and implemented a strategic candidate screening framework that identified key success traits aligned with company values, enabling the recruitment team to assess candidates more effectively
• Onboarded and trained new hires within the recruitment team while mentoring interns

Employer Branding & Candidate Engagement

• Organized and hosted Binance Seeds’ first global AMA session with 17K+ attendees; responsible for event planning, content development, and logistics
• Managed Binance Seeds promotional activities, creating content for social media, blogs, and PR outreach
• Organized and hosted three annual AMAs with APAC universities (100+ attendees), boosting awareness of the Binance Accelerator Program, educating students, and engaging potential talent
• Collaborated with the graphic design team to build creative job poster advertisement templates and partnered with the social media team to post job openings bi-weekly on X, LinkedIn, and Telegram, boosting applicant outreach by 20%

Key Achievements & Metrics

• Successfully placed and onboarded 57 new joiners, achieving 100% of hiring targets across 4 teams
• Built the Mobile Development team of 7 from scratch within 3 months
• Revamped technology interview processes across multiple engineering teams, reducing Time to Fill from 9 weeks to 5 weeks
• Developed proactive sourcing methods, cutting agency reliance from 50% to 15% within the first 6 months
• Led the clean-up of BitMEX’s Preferred Supplier Lists, ensuring panels include top recruitment agencies aligned with business needs
• Drive ongoing global expansion efforts, playing an integral role in doubling and growing BitMEX’s regional and global presence

Recruitment Management

• End-to-end recruiting for Trading Technology, Product Engineering, Custody Engineering, Brokerage Technology, DevOps, Quant Developers, and Traders across Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, and New Zealand
• Generated targeted candidate pools through strategic advertisement placement, applicant evaluation, and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments
• Handle complex offer negotiations, prepare salary proposals, manage approval processes, and collaborate with HRBPs on salary benchmarking, market data, and global work transfers
• Operate and maintain applicant tracking, candidate management, and HR systems including Greenhouse, Talent Wall, and Workday

Key Achievements & Metrics

• Built the GS Asset Management Technology team of 10 from scratch in Beijing and Shanghai
• Increased diversity hiring by 30% across hiring teams
• Successfully placed 60 new joiners

Recruitment Management

• Led end-to-end hiring for Global Markets Engineering, Core Engineering, and Strats across APAC
• Focused on roles such as Software Engineers, Full Stack Developers, Project Managers, Product Managers, DevOps, Cloud Engineers, and Data Engineers
• Partnered with hiring managers to manage the full search process, overseeing candidate flow and communication between hiring teams, candidates, and recruitment vendors
• Introduced quarterly market intelligence reports delivered to senior stakeholders to inform hiring strategies

Key Achievements

• Developed the data science and analytics desk from scratch, generating total billing of HKD 2.1M
• Brought in 18 new clients across multiple industries including start-ups, buy-side firms, and top-tier banks (PSL)
• Led the build-out of the internal recruitment team, hiring 5 recruiters within 3 months
• Invited as a key speaker at HSBC’s Data Analytics symposium on recruitment trends in Hong Kong

Recruitment & Product Management

• Served as a 360 recruiter handling both external client projects and internal hiring needs in a start-up environment
• Established and formalized the firm’s recruitment processes and hiring practices, working within predefined frameworks
• Acted as product manager for Terminal 1’s internal tools development, providing recommendations on engineering resource allocation and feature prioritization