SVP, People Strategy, Org Design & Chief of Staff to the CPO

Founded to transform retail finance, Ajaib Group is an Indonesian fintech unicorn breaking barriers to financial access. Having recently secured a $270M Series C—the single largest funding round in Southeast Asia over the past four years—we are backed by premier global investors including Y Combinator, Ribbit Capital, SoftBank, and SBI Holdings.  

To build world-class products, we assemble world-class talent. Supported by our fully hybrid work arrangement, our team spans Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia, allowing you to work with brilliant engineers and builders from around the globe from wherever you are.

Role Overview

We are looking for a visionary, highly quantitative SVP, People Strategy, Org Design who will dual-hat as Chief of Staff to the Chief People Officer (CPO).

In this multi-faceted executive role, you will own Ajaib’s global organizational design (OD), organizational development (ODev), and strategic workforce planning across multi-country engineering, product, and business hubs. You will serve as the primary architect for modernizing the People function—leading all automation, AI integration, systems, and workflow transformations to build a hyper-efficient People organization. Additionally, as Chief of Staff to the CPO, you will establish CPO operating cadence, C-suite and board materials, and People OKRs.

1. Org Design (OD) & Global Workforce Planning

• Global Organizational Architecture: Partner with the CPO and C-Suite to design, calibrate, and optimize scalable organizational structures, reporting lines, and span of control across all product verticals and regional entities.
• Define the job architecture and P-level career ladder for every job family.
• Run org design reviews for new C-suite leaders (CTO, CMO, CISO) as they land.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Build dynamic, mid- to long-range headcount and financial modeling frameworks that align talent allocation with business revenue targets, multi-product roadmaps, and international expansion. 
• Build the annual headcount plan with Finance and track actuals against it monthly.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Continuously analyze organizational health, operational bottlenecks, team velocity, and headcount ROI to recommend lean, high-output organizational structures.

2. AI Integration & Systems Process Transformation

• AI & Automation Roadmap: Spearhead the evaluation, adoption, and deployment of cutting-edge AI tools, generative agents, and predictive analytics across the end-to-end employee lifecycle (sourcing, onboarding, sentiment, engagement, and internal workflows).
• HR Systems & Workflow Re-engineering: Lead project management and implementation for system transformations (ATS, HRIS, Compensation platforms, and internal portals), simplifying complex workflows and eliminating manual operational drag.
• Data-Driven Digital Operations: Establish single-source-of-truth People dashboards and automated reporting layers for real-time visibility into workforce metrics.
• Build the People dashboard: headcount, attrition, hiring funnel, performance distribution, cost.

3. Chief of Staff to the CPO & People Team Performance Management

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