Urgent hiring announcement exposed! DeepSeek's "brother company" is sincerely recruiting executives

The popularity of DeepSeek continues to soar!

It can be said that everyone is talking about it, and everyone is using DeepSeek.

Although many times, this program often responds with "Server busy, please try again later."

Amidst this rapid progress, Liang Wenfeng, the actual controller of DeepSeek, has recently launched a round of executive recruitment for another business platform—Huanfang Quantitative.

Moreover, several positions are marked as "urgent hiring."

What story lies behind this?

Posting "Urgent Hiring" Positions

Zhi Shi Tang noticed that at least from mid-January 2025, Huanfang Quantitative's official website began posting "urgent hiring" job information.

At the same time, numerous external headhunting platforms also displayed recruitment information for Huanfang Quantitative.

The positions involved include Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), Vice President of Finance, Finance Director, and AGI Legal Personnel.

For typical private equity firms, this is almost half of the core team recruitment volume.

Does AGI Also Need Legal Personnel?

This urgent hiring by Huanfang also includes several rarely seen positions in the industry—such as AGI Legal Personnel.

AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence.

The so-called AGI Legal Personnel, understood literally, is responsible for the legal aspects of AGI-related laws, compliance, intellectual property, and risk control.

However, the external world does not understand why general artificial intelligence requires dedicated legal personnel.

Nevertheless, the job responsibilities for this position indicate that it is a composite role, which includes participating in the entire business process of AI large models, addressing legal policies and security issues, and helping to build a risk-averse business framework.

Additionally, tracking and analyzing important legislative policies, standards, law enforcement, and industry practices related to the development and governance of artificial intelligence globally, as well as strengthening communication with government agencies, regulatory bodies, and research institutions, are also significant functions.

It is evident that the requirements for this legal personnel's capabilities are quite "comprehensive," covering artificial intelligence business, relevant laws and regulations, strategic analysis, and even public relations.

"Filling" Key Roles

Additionally, Huanfang is simultaneously recruiting for the CFO and COO positions.

Both of these positions are senior management roles that play key roles in private equity firms. CFO, or Chief Financial Officer, is the highest responsible person for the financial work of the company. Specific functions include organizing the preparation and execution of budgets, financial income and expenditure plans, credit plans, formulating funding raising and usage plans, and effectively utilizing funds; establishing and improving the economic accounting system, strengthening cost management, analyzing production and operation activities, improving economic efficiency, and providing advice for the company's core leadership.

COO, or Chief Operating Officer, in an asset management institution, besides the CEO (General Manager), the COO and CIO (Chief Investment Officer), CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) usually rank as the three core senior executives. The work overseen by the COO typically includes middle and back office, compliance and risk control, clearing and settlement, and in some cases, they may become the right-hand person or even the B-side of the General Manager, playing an important role at critical times.

Both positions have been put out for recruitment by Huansquare, which is quite noteworthy.

No Significant Personnel Losses Observed Recently

It is worth noting that the urgent recruitment information mentioned above does not disclose relevant salary details.

However, given Huansquare's leading position in the quantitative industry, the compensation for many of these positions should not be low.

Moreover, based on relevant information, it seems that Huansquare has not experienced any dynamic information regarding the departure of core personnel recently.

If one must mention, it is that at the end of 2024, Huansquare Quant disclosed that an executive responsible for sales, Mr. Li, was unable to perform his duties, but this was merely an isolated incident.

Therefore, the recent bulk search for senior management by Huansquare Quant over the past month is not common for a hedge fund company that has been established for years.

Recruitment Information is Mostly “Confidential”

Despite the urgent hiring, neither the official recruitment channels nor the headhunting platforms have publicly disclosed the job descriptions and application requirements for the CFO, COO, and Vice President of Finance positions.

On external recruitment platforms, Huansquare describes the aforementioned positions as: “Interview, interested parties can directly submit their resumes.”

It is clear that Huansquare Quant has not disclosed key information about these positions due to certain factors, which is closely related to the company's operational status.

Location Reveals “Thoughts”?

Interestingly, the job locations for the urgently hired positions at Huansquare are not the same.

The future job locations for the CFO, COO, and Vice President of Finance are indicated as Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

In contrast, the recruitment location for AGI Legal is shown as Haidian District, Beijing.

Industry sources indicate that many core team members of Huansquare Quant are in Hangzhou, and many members of the DeepSeek team have offices in both Beijing and Hangzhou.

Could this suggest the future positioning of the relevant roles and their collaborative partners?

Changes Behind the “Urgent Hiring”

Zhitang has found that although some of the job contents mentioned above are related to artificial intelligence large models, DeepSeek has not been involved in the public information.

However, the skills required for this round of recruitment are mostly general, rather than specialized positions like quantitative investment.

Recruiting such talent can lead to a wide range of applicable company platforms and institutions in the future Some professionals familiar with recruitment have revealed that when a company has "urgent hiring" for senior management and legal positions, it may indicate the following operational scenarios:

Firstly, the main business is further expanding, with the possibility of preparing for large-scale financing, requiring more professionals to ensure operational efficiency and the preparation of key legal documents.

Secondly, internal personnel adjustments within the management team have led to vacancies in related positions that need to be filled urgently.

Thirdly, there are plans and pressures for the company to expand new businesses and improve existing ones.

Fourthly, there are strategic adjustments at the company level, which also involve adjusting the capital structure to enhance the company's profitability, among other things.

Of course, this is just the typical situation for institutions; for Liang Wenfeng's team, which specializes in AI big data and quantitative investment, there may be other plans