Exec Summary:
DiviGas is closing its seed round and is preparing a new scale up of our operations. We are building a small office and factory in Singapore to serve our first product rollouts and need a head of operations, our first full time hire, to help with just about every non-technical topic
DiviGas is looking for an ex-startup Singapore national to join it’s team as head of operations. This will be an extremely varied and challenging opportunity where you will mirror and directly work with the CEO.
This position was created to directly take on some of the responsibilities of the founders but it is not an assistant position, within weeks, you will be expected to show initiative on your own projects and take on verticals of work without any oversight and direction. If successful this position could become a key part of a much larger company.
Required qualifications:
- 3-6 years of experience as a founder or exec role in a hardware startup
- Singapore based, Singapore national
Start Date: Immediate
Job type: Full time
Remuneration: Salary and Equity + CPF
Functions and responsibilities:
- Strategic planning with Cofounders
- Client interfacing (non-technical), make client support materials
- Building company protocols
- Hiring
- Help write for, apply for, speak for & build relationships with PR partners
- Apply for and be involved in startup competitions
- Help manage partners, logistics, facilities and more
- Support investor relations
- And more!
Who you are:
- Curious & Self aware - No one is good at everything, and you aren’t either. But trying to always improve is a necessity in this highly complex role
- A strategic thinker. You understand the priorities of the companies, what is a waste of time and what is mission critical, without being told
- Technically versatile - You can handle making presentations, making excel spreadsheets and visuals from scratch, making copy (like this job description) and more. If you don’t know a tool (like Miro or wrike), you are always ready to learn it on the fly
- Functionally versatile - You will Interview people, talk to clients (non-technically), perform administrative tasks, be involved in strategic planning. - Everything from being critical to closing multi million million dollar deals to brooming the factory floor (likely with the CEO there doing the same thing)
- Deeply independent & Self Motivated - You create your own work, and you are accountable for yourself
- Ambitious - You realize that as the first full-time employee, you could become a leader in one of Singapore’s most promising cleantech companies
- Highly self organized - You naturally file, save, label note and otherwise work in a way anyone could follow your train of thought in your absence
- Ethical and moral-driven - No cheating, ‘no-asshole’ policy, zero tolerance for racism sexism or “but this is how we do it here”
Extra Advantages:
- Speaking and/or writing in additional languages such as Chinese, Arabic or Japanese
- Experience or academic background with chemical engineering, logistics and supply chain, consulting and advisory.