About this role
Chief of Staff - UK
About BJAK
BJAK is building the next-generation insurance and financial services platform - designed to be radically simple, transparent, and accessible. We are the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia, operating at scale across the region, and continue to expand into new markets with a strong focus on execution, technology, and measurable outcomes.
About the Role
The Chief of Staff – UK is a high-trust, high-leverage role that works directly with the CEO to drive alignment, clarity, and execution across the organisation. This role acts as the CEO’s extension—helping translate vision into priorities, priorities into action, and action into measurable results.
The Chief of Staff focuses on CEO leverage, cross-functional alignment, decision support, and execution momentum, especially for initiatives that cut across teams or lack a natural owner.
This role is suited for someone who thrives in ambiguity, operates with a founder mindset, and takes deep ownership of outcomes.
What You Will Be Doing
Partner directly with leadership to define, track, and drive progress on company-wide strategic priorities, OKRs, and critical initiatives.
Prepare high-quality briefings, analysis, and recommendations to support C-level decision-making and strategically optimize the leadership's time and focus.
Lead and facilitate core leadership forums (ELT meetings, off-sites), driving clear agendas, documentation, and ensuring cross-departmental alignment and execution momentum.
Draft and refine polished communication materials for internal teams, the Board, and investors, serving as a key liaison across departments.
Lead and execute high-priority, complex projects that do not have a natural departmental owner, supporting strategic initiatives from planning through execution.
Identify operational gaps or inefficiencies across the business and proactively coordinate the solutions and systems required to enable company-wide scale.
What You Will Need
Strong background in management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, or previous Chief of Staff–type roles in high-growth environments
Proven ability to own complex, cross-functional initiatives with significant accountability
Strong critical thinking, structuring, and executive-level communication skills
Experience working closely with senior leadership on sensitive, high-stakes matters
High level of maturity, discretion, and judgment
Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Why Join BJAK
Work directly with the CEO in a high-trust, high-impact role
Shape execution and alignment at a company-defining stage of growth
Gain broad exposure across strategy, operations, and leadership decision-making
Clear path into senior leadership roles over time
Flat, no-politics culture that values clarity, speed, and ownership
Competitive compensation with long-term growth opportunities
Compensations Range
We offer a highly competitive package, ranging from £80,000 to £110,000, reflecting both experience and suitability for this pivotal role.
Other facts
About Bjak
Our mission is to develop technology based solutions to improve financial inclusion.
We develop new & innovative platforms & services globally. For example, we are the first platform to simplify and digitise comprehensive life and medical insurance, supported by AI agent. BJAK is the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia.
If you enjoy building cutting edge platform-ecosystems that gives equal access to financial services to everyone at scale, join us.
What you'll do
- The Chief of Staff will partner with leadership to define and drive progress on strategic priorities and initiatives. They will also lead high-priority projects and facilitate leadership forums to ensure alignment and execution momentum.
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