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Chief of Staff

Role overview

Summary

The Chief of Staff role at ActAI focuses on driving major priorities and cross-functional projects across the organization. You will work closely with various functions to solve complex problems and ensure effective execution of strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

  • Strong experience in a technology company, high-growth startup, strategy/operations role, top-tier consulting firm or your own startup.
  • Track record owning complex projects with measurable business outcomes.
  • Strong analytical and commercial judgement with the ability to work through data, financials and business problems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication with clear, structured thinking.
  • Hands-on operating style - able to do the analysis, build the plan and drive the execution personally.

Responsibilities

  • Drive major Group priorities and cross-functional projects from start to completion.
  • Identify business or execution problems and drive solutions.
  • Track priorities, decisions and performance across businesses.
  • Lead projects involving new businesses, market expansion, or organisational changes.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Operations
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Consulting

About the company

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Bjak

  • Insurance
  • Scaleup
  • 51–200
Bjak is focused on providing access to affordable and sustainable financial services for people in ASEAN. Headquartered in Malaysia, Bjak is the largest insurance portal in Southeast Asia. Our main portal, Bjak.com, helps millions find the insurance policy with the best value and highest coverage for them. Using technology, our team's core strengths are in problem solving and navigating the most complex regulations and environments, creating some of the most innovative products in the world. For instance, we are the first platform globally to simplify and offer investment-linked life and health insurance online, coupled with an instant talk-to-agent service. Our investments in technology such as Custom API, blockchain, trading systems and data science is to enable easy access to financial services, that were previously inaccessible or difficult to understand. If you enjoy building cutting edge platforms and ecosystems to give equal access to financial services for the masses - Speak to us.

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Job description

About ActAI

There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.

Our first application is an agent-first mobile communication app. We believe building applications that users use daily for communication, coordination and collaboration needs will help integrate AI into their lives. The net effect is to eliminate misinformation, achieve low coordination costs, enable high quality tasks and collaboration at scale with minimal or little prompting.

 

About the Role

The Chief of Staff will drive major priorities across ActAI and its portfolio of businesses. This is a hands-on operating role for someone who can move across businesses and functions, solve difficult problems and drive important work from decision through execution.

What you will be doing

  • Drive major Group priorities and cross-functional projects from start to completion.

  • Identify business or execution problems, work through the details and drive solutions.

  • Track priorities, decisions and performance across businesses and ensure clear ownership and follow-through.

  • Lead projects involving new businesses, market expansion, organisational changes or other Group priorities.

  • Analyse business performance, markets and opportunities and turn findings into actions.

  • Work across product, technology, finance, people and operations depending on the problem.

  • Step into areas where ownership is unclear or additional execution is needed.

What you will need

  • Strong experience in a technology company, high-growth startup, strategy/operations role, top-tier consulting firm or your own startup.

  • Track record owning complex projects with measurable business outcomes.

  • Strong analytical and commercial judgement with the ability to work through data, financials and business problems.

  • Able to learn unfamiliar businesses and functions quickly and get into the details.

  • Strong written and verbal communication with clear, structured thinking.

  • Hands-on operating style - able to do the analysis, build the plan and drive the execution personally.

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