Shanghai hosts one-third of AI talent pool nationwide

Shanghai is home to one-third of the artificial intelligence professionals nationwide, drawing firms and organizations to the city to tap the talent pool and potential AI development, a top city government official said today.

Besides the talent pool, Shanghai has an advanced capital market and a huge volume of tradable data, which account for half of the national level, Wu Qing, the city’s vice mayor, said during a meeting with visitors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SenseTime, one of the leading AI firms in China.

Wu, however, didn’t mention the detailed figures of AI professionals the city hosts.

But China suffers from an AI talent shortfall of 5 million professionals which include 500,000 core engineers who master programming and related technologies, dajie.com, an online recruitment firm, has said previously.

SenseTime, which plans to invest 6 billion yuan (U.S.$938 million) in Shanghai, signed cooperation agreements with state-owned giants Shanghai Lingang Group and Shanghai Inesa to develop AI. SenseTime will set up a headquarters for global research, intelligent car, smart chip and smart education in Shanghai, said Tang Xiao’ou, founder of SenseTime, who is also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

QC(non-food) (mn246)

Job Title: QC (non-food)
Job Description:
Company introduction:
Our client belongs to world famous retailer groups’ Union specialized in different kinds of store products. Our client is one of the world’s largest sourcing organizations, serving some of the largest retailers in the world. Based on what they are good at, they consciously make strategies that continue to build, maintain and utilize their unique competences and capabilities to ensure sustainable growth.
They set up their Asia sourcing centre in Shanghai, and their office here is in charge of sourcing & quality control of the suppliers. They are now looking for a senior merchandiser for their textile department who is directly report to their Asia Sourcing director who comes from France.
Location: Shanghai

Responsibilities:
1. Conduct the in-inspection for related category
2. Make sure all productions comply with the group requirements
3. Applying the Quality methods and procedures provided by Quality Manager
4. In-line control of productions comply with the Group quality requirement
5. In-line control of production comply with shipment date
6. Follow-up the continuous improvement if non-conformities during production
7. Advise and inform all related department in Asia by reporting
8. Supervise on Final Random inspection given by external parties
9. Factory audits in case of assistance to Quality supervisor
10. Apply any existing tools and means to ship on time according to purchase order ETD
11. Provide explicit information of production/during inspection to China quality department
12. Evaluation of performance will be carried out following the objectives evaluation documents provided by Asia Quality Department and updated every year.
13. Annual appraisal will be carried out by Asia Quality Manager together with China Quality Manager

Requirements:
1. Bachelor degree or above.
2. Minimum 3 years work experience in textile quality. Be familiar with Domestic and International purchasing.
3. Strong with quality audit and quality controlling for the suppliers. Initiative, creative, flexibility and willing to work under pressure.
4. Excellent at communication and interpersonal skills
5. Able to work under pressure.

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Director, Quantitative Analysis(eo248)

Job Title: Director, Quantitative Analysis
Report To: VP Content and Research
Location: Shanghai
Our client is a young entrepreneurial company that is on track to redefine the financial information market in China. With the expansion of China’s business and marketing, they are searching some excellent candidates.

Responsibilities:
1. This role will have direct responsibility for development and maintenance of financial models; and management of a team of programmers implementing such models.
2. You will need to work closely with sales and marketing division for development of customized products.
3. As part of the foundational leadership team for this start up company you will be a pragmatic, action oriented individual able to positively react to change and to opportunity. You will be an inspirational leader and communicator;
4. Develop and build complex financial models in order to manage financial guarantee risk. This role will primarily focus on developing, maintaining and supporting large scale financial models.
5. Developing, testing and implementing quantitative trading models; this will be based on quantitative data analysis rather than qualitative analysis.
6. Research strategies in equities and other markets.
7. Perform historical back testing to determine optimal strategy parameters.
8. Generate new indicator ideas;

Requirement:
1. PhD or Masters in physics, statistics, mathematics or operations research.
2. Minimum of a five year experience in quant/financial engineering, successful implementation of financial models big help. Candidates have oversea experience is preferred;
3. Exposure in global ficc/equity markets;
4. In-depth understanding of various financial models and their applications;
5. Updated knowledge of financial products, particularly in Chinese capital markets;
6. Strong general management skills;
7. Strategic planning,
8. Staff recruitment, retention and development,
9. Highly motivated to build state-of-art system
10. Able to quickly respond to shifting markets;
11. Fluent written and spoken Mandarin and English.

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Vice President Product Strategy(eo247)

Job Title: Vice President Product Strategy
Location: Shanghai
Our client is a young entrepreneurial company that is on track to redefine the financial information market in China. With the expansion of China’s business and marketing, they are searching some excellent candidates.

Responsibilities:
1. This role will bring the “next gen” financial markets platform to market in China.
2. Be responsible for product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.;
3. Be a visionary who is able to link the opportunities available through new technologies with the realities and necessities of working in a financial market.
4. Must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy;
5. Could document product specifications and communicate to the development team clearly;
6. This role will enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market;

Requirement:
1. PhD or Masters in relevant major.
2. Minimum of 5 years experience in Product Management and experience working for a market leading international or domestic company with extensive involvement in the provision of information and services to the financial markets in China.
3. Be able to demonstrate a track record in bring market leading solutions to market.
4. Be a passionate advocate for creating “actionable intelligence” from raw data and information, using the very latest technologies to bring theory into reality.
5. Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
6. Web 3.0, Consumer and Enterprise web experience with solid exposure to UI / UX development
7. Sound commercial experience in the financial markets with specific understanding of workflow and its challenges;
8. Evangelist for new application of technologies in the work environment;
9. Highly inquisitive about the development of information management and analysis tools in the consumer and enterprise environment.
10. Deep experience of working with development teams and good understanding of the development lifecycle.
11. Fluent written and spoken Mandarin and English.

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VP Content & Research (eo249)

Job Title: VP Content & Research
Report To: CEO
Location: Shanghai
Our client is a young entrepreneurial company that is on track to redefine the financial information market in China. With the expansion of China’s business and marketing, they are searching some excellent candidates.

Responsibilities:
1. Ensure that the company platform is the most comprehensive source of value added information and intelligence in the Chinese financial markets.
2. Be responsible for all the proprietary and third party content available on the platform.
3. Based on market feedback and intelligence should either: identify and secure rights to the best third party data and information; or establish in house capabilities to create and produce the data and information.
4. Be an innovator; quickly able to spot the “information gaps” faced by the developing financial markets in China and to devise unique solutions to the plug those gaps.
5. Deep understanding of the financial markets, globally and domestically, the understanding of the financial markets workflow and the passion for creating actionable intelligence from disparate and complex data sources will see as a driving force within the company.
6. Manage both information vendor relationships as well as our own teams responsible for creating news, commentary and analysis.

Requirement:
1. Management experience will include management of all aspects of information supplier and publisher relationships, including identification, negotiation and ongoing relationship management; as well as experience in managing the content creation process.
2. Have a strong background in the application of leading edge technologies to enable the distribution, analysis and comprehension of information; be a passionate advocate for creating “actionable intelligence” from raw data and information.
3. Be a well respected figure in the Chinese Financial community. Demonstrable track record of creating “new” content solutions.
4. Experienced in negotiating commercial terms with suppliers and of maintaining productive long term relationships.
5. At least five years experience of managing a content creation process. Experience of bring content solutions to market and of using the potential of new technologies to improve efficiencies in the consumption and use of information.
6. Sound commercial experience in the financial markets with specific understanding of workflow and its challenges.
7. Highly inquisitive about the development of information management and analysis tools in the consumer and enterprise environment.
8. Champion of the value of data and content; Skilled at “selling” the vision to third parties and at managing supplier relationships; High level of financial markets literacy;
9. Strong team leadership / management; Highly analytical to determine ongoing value of data;
10. Empathy with the “news and content creation” process
11. Fluent written and spoken Mandarin and English.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_eo249@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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VP Sales & Marketing(mkt419)

Job Title: VP Sales & Marketing
Report To: GM
Location: Shanghai
Our client is a young entrepreneurial company that is on track to redefine the financial information market in China. With the expansion of China’s business and marketing, they are searching some excellent candidates.

Responsibilities:
1. Own all revenue generation and retention activities within the company.
2. Have direct management responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Account Management and Customer Services.
3. Working closely with colleagues and interfacing regularly with the market you will be responsible for defining, refining, and implementing our Go to Market strategy.
4. As part of the foundational leadership team for this start up company you will be a pragmatic, action oriented individual able to positively react to change and to opportunity.
5. Be an inspirational leader and communicator. Built an extensive network within the financial market.
6. Strategic planning, staff recruitment, retention and development,

Requirement:
1. Have five plus years experience working for a market leading international or domestic company with extensive involvement in the provision of tools and services to the financial markets.
2. Management experience will include the leadership of sales and marketing professionals; you will have held responsibility for leading strategic planning and definition and implementation of Go To Market strategy.
3. Be a well respected figure in the Chinese Financial community with an excellent professional network..
4. Strong general management skills; Experienced in building out both tactical and strategic plans (and budgets) for development and growth of the business.
5. Ability to stay on top of, and preferably to drive, market innovation and to identify opportunities to profit from them.
6. Sound commercial experience in the financial markets with specific understanding of workflow and its challenges.
7. Evangelist for application of new technologies in the work environment;
8. Highly inquisitive about the development of information management and analysis tools in the consumer and enterprise environment.
9. Excellent record of revenue growth; Able to quickly respond to shifting markets;
10. Fluent written and spoken Mandarin and English. Public speaking

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_mkt419@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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Hardware Quality Assurance Engineer(eng217)

Job Title: Hardware Quality Assurance Engineer
Report To: QA Manager
Location: Shanghai
Our client is a world leader in Signal Systems for public transport. It successfully completed many metro projects for numerous cities around the world.
With the development in APAC, especially in China, they are looking for talents to join them.
Job Description:
This role will be responsible to perform hardware quality assurance and site quality activities for Rail Signaling systems.

Responsibilities:
1. Perform HQA activities according to the QA standard procedures and Establish QA plan and Inspection & test plan (ITP);
2. Verify that the activities relevant to the products and services provision are in accordance with the defined processes and procedures?
3. Conduct in-process audits on the hardware development processes and perform QA daily check and submit monthly QA report, conduct HQ-review, including the review of quality requirement in contract, hardware requirement, preliminary/detailed/final design, hardware documents, submit review comments and follow the nonconformities to closure;
4. Perform external audits especially consortium partners/suppliers, conduct site inspection/audit and submit inspection/audit report and Factory Acceptance Inspection, Source Inspection, Receiving Inspection, and Final Inspection;
5. Be familiar with company organizational standard processes defined by EPG To identify the nonconformities and direct relevant people to correct and improve them.
6. To has good communication skill to make the opposing party to accept your suggestions;
7. To become a highly productive member and team player.
8. To be able to work efficiently and shoot troubles effectively under pressure or in emergency case.

Requirement:
1. Bachelor Degree or above in B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, automotive, aerospace or similar or equivalent.
2. Minimum 3 year experience in related area with multinational companies;
3. Knowledge of local electrical design standards and Rich QA experience and strong QA skill;
4. Internal Auditor of ISO 9000 is preferred;
5. Fluent in written and verbal English language.

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Recruiting Specialist(hr169)

Job Title: Recruiting Specialist
Report To: HRD
Location: Shanghai
Our client is a world leader in Signal Systems for public transport. It successfully completed many metro projects for numerous cities around the world.
With the development in APAC, especially in China, they are looking for talents to join them.

Job Description:
This role will be responsible for the strategy to attract world-class, diverse talent and to drive a competitive advantage through talent acquisition, employee engagement, retention, and compliance leadership.

Responsibilities:
1. Operational Recruiting Activities Management?
2. Monitor and update company organization growing progress, identify and forecast the resourcing needs for every department;
3. Professionally manage the recruitment function to continuously improve the quality of staffing, to meet the resourcing requirements through innovative and effective manner;
4. Develop and update staffing policies and processes and ensure policies, practices and processes are executed and full compliance to both local and the company’s Global standard;
5. Handle with employee relationship and labor issues; provide consultancy to line managers on handling employee relationship;
6. Interact with government and consulting agencies and keep apprised of government labor laws and regulations;
7. Independently manage the whole recruiting process, from initial CV screening to candidate offer management;
8. Manage Internet job posting and search firm liaison, be able to conduct candidate search through direct approach;
9. Act as a coordinator between internal clients and external candidates regarding interview schedule, feedback collection, and communication with the candidates during the on-board process;
10. Prepare monthly staffing reports; including hiring report, position forecast report, recruiting cost tracking, etc.
11. Process Management / Staffing Strategy Design & Implementation;
12. Develops creative approaches to the recruitment process to increase high-caliber candidate sourcing including referral generation, Internet sourcing, ad placement, direct sourcing/cold calling;
13. Develop and maintain professional relationships with college, university and community college placement offices, developing strong recruitment programs as a source to generate qualified applicants;
14. Build up talents pool according to business needs.

Requirement:
1. Bachelor Degree or above in Human Resources, Business, or related field;
2. Minimum 5 year experience in related area with multinational companies; headhunting working experience preferred;
3. Familiar with various recruiting channels is preferred;
4. Experience implementing a wide variety of innovative talent acquisition programs and Internet and non-Internet based sourcing strategies;
5. Strong demonstration of strategic, process, and project management skills;
6. Good understanding of overall human resources operation;
7. Good English language ability (Oral, listening, reading and writing);
8. Proficient in computer and MS Office.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_hr169@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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Merchandiser- Shoes & Household(ml041)

Job Title: Merchandiser- Shoes & Household
Job Description:
Company introduction:
Our client belongs to world famous retailer groups’ Union specialized in different kinds of store products. Our client is one of the world’s largest sourcing organizations, serving some of the largest retailers in the world. Based on what they are good at, they consciously make strategies that continue to build, maintain and utilize their unique competences and capabilities to ensure sustainable growth.
They set up their Asia sourcing centre in Shanghai, and their office here is in charge of sourcing & quality control of the suppliers. They are now looking for a senior merchandiser for their textile department who is directly report to their Asia Sourcing director who comes from France.
Location: Shanghai

Responsibilities:
1. Develop his/her own category of products by sourcing
2. Negotiate price and import process with suppliers
3. Pre-evaluation suppliers based on commercial, administrative and production terms
4. Carry out business trip and file asking by each category
5. Is the link between supplier and each category
6. Follow sample and file asking by each category
7. Make sure all testing and control plan required are applied by the factories
8. Strength of suggestions for products, suppliers and packaging
9. Factories and fairs visit have to be plan
10. Keep update knowledge about costing, product, market and process
11. Look after the Group import process policy
12. To be sure about information received and sent
13. Develop new sourcing
14. Communication between buyers and suppliers
15. Turnover (ship out) / Orders
16. Apply any existing tools and means to ship on time according to purchase order ETD
17. Make sure all shipments comply with all European and French standards. Make sure all shipments comply with French Head office requirements.
18. In charge of his or her own turnover and have to goal his or her quantitative and qualitative targets.

Requirements:
1. Bachelor degree or above.
2. Minimum 3 years work experience in sourcing or purchasing, familiar with International purchasing.
3. Familiar with International Trading Process, prefer to shoes, Home Appliance, etc.
4. Strong with pricing and negotiating skills. Initiative, creative, flexibility and willing to work under pressure.
5. Excellent at communication and interpersonal skills
6. Fluency in English, both in oral and written.
7. Able to work under pressure.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_ml041@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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Finance Manager(fid275)

Job Title: Finance Manager
Report To: Area Controller
Location: Shanghai
Our client is the global leader in machines (laser, mechanical and computer-controlled), consumables, software, and services for the engraving and permanent marking industry. With the expansion of China’s business and marketing, they are searching some excellent candidates.

Responsibilities:
1. Responsible for all financial and fiscal management aspects of company operations in the region;
2. Create, coordinate, and evaluate the financial programs and supporting information systems of the company to include budgeting, tax planning, real estate, and conservation of assets.;
3. Ensure the financial books and operations comply with the local legal, tax and accounting policies for PRC reporting and to IFRS;
4. Represent the company in front of Banks, Government Agencies and other third parties;
5. Guide the sales assistants to review and examine the contract and the sales invoice; Oversee the approval and processing of revenue, expenditure, and position control documents, department budgets, mass salary updates, ledger, and account maintenance and data entry.
6. Maintenance and review of all financial policies and procedures;
7. Coordinate the annual external audit of the financial statements of the unit.
8. Develop the Financial and Accounting team;
9. Analyze cash flow, cost controls, and expenses to guide business leaders. Analyze financial statements to pinpoint potential weak areas.
10. Establish and implement short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.

Requirement:
1. University and Master Degree or equivalent.
2. Must have worked for a Western company with a thorough understanding of manufacturing operations in China.
3. Seeking a minimum of 6+ years experience in a management position in finance and accounting functions.
4. Excellent knowledge of PRC GAAP and IFRS.
5. Accounting qualifications such as CPA a strong advantage.
6. Excellent written and spoken English skill. Excellent PC skill.
7. Work experience with a “big four” accounting firm is preferred.

* Please send us your complete resume (in Chinese and in English) to: ‘topjob_fid275@dacare.com'(Please replace “#” with “@”)
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