Facilities/Barista Assistant

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models.

Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London and Singapore.

What you’ll do as a Facilities & Barista Assistant at Akuna:

We are looking for an energetic individual to support our in-office coffee bar and help manage all aspects of providing service to employees each day. Our Chicago Headquarters offers a stocked kitchen, floor-to-ceiling whiteboards, ping-pong & pool tables, and a sweeping 360° view of the lakefront & city skyline, and ensuring the office operates at its best is crucial in this role. This is a 30-hour per-week position, from 8am to 2pm, Monday through Friday. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with excellent attention-to-detail, who takes pride in the way the office looks and operates. In this role, you will:

• Maintain the cleanliness, organization, and overall appearance of kitchens, common areas, storage spaces, and shared office areas throughout the day

• Manage daily dishwashing operations, including loading and unloading dishwashers, putting away clean dishes, and washing and folding kitchen/bath towels

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