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Chief Strategy Officer

Role overview

Summary

The Chief Strategy Officer at ActAI is responsible for owning Group strategy and major strategic initiatives. This role focuses on identifying competitive opportunities and translating them into actionable plans, while also managing corporate positioning and communications.

Qualifications

  • Strong strategy experience in a technology company, high-growth startup, strategy, consulting investment environment or your own startup.
  • Experience developing and executing strategies with measurable business outcomes.
  • Strong commercial and financial judgement with the ability to evaluate markets, businesses and investments.
  • Strong analytical capability and ability to build business cases and financial models directly.
  • Excellent written communication and ability to turn complex business topics into clear narratives.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Group strategy across existing businesses, new products and markets.
  • Evaluate new businesses, markets, competitors and industry shifts and recommend where the Group should invest.
  • Build business cases and financial models for new opportunities and major strategic decisions.
  • Lead strategic initiatives including market entry, partnerships, investments and M&A where relevant.

Key facts

  • Remote from: China, Asia, East Asia, APAC
  • Full time
  • Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving

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 Strategy Officer will own Group strategy and major strategic initiatives across ActAI and its portfolio of businesses. The role will identify where the group should compete, invest and expand, and turn those decisions into executable plans. The role will also own group-level positioning and communications around major corporate developments.

What you will be doing

  • Develop Group strategy across existing businesses, new products and markets.

  • Evaluate new businesses, markets, competitors and industry shifts and recommend where the Group should invest.

  • Build business cases and financial models for new opportunities and major strategic decisions.

  • Lead strategic initiatives including market entry, partnerships, investments and M&A where relevant.

  • Track competitive developments and identify risks and opportunities across the Group.

  • Own Group positioning, corporate narratives and communications around major company developments.

  • Work with business leaders to translate strategy into specific priorities, investments and execution plans.

What you will need

  • Strong strategy experience in a technology company, high-growth startup, strategy, consulting investment environment or your own startup.

  • Experience developing and executing strategies with measurable business outcomes.

  • Strong commercial and financial judgement with the ability to evaluate markets, businesses and investments.

  • Strong analytical capability and ability to build business cases and financial models directly.

  • Excellent written communication and ability to turn complex business topics into clear narratives.

  • Experience with corporate development, investments, M&A or corporate communications is useful.

  • Hands-on operating style - able to research, analyse, write and drive strategic work personally.

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