VALSEA Hiring! Full Time Head of Execution in - Ricebowl

About The Role

You will turn company priorities into clear plans and make sure they get done. You will run day-to-day operations and stay hands-on with code and cloud work when the team needs it. You will report to the CEO and CTO and own delivery from planning to follow-through.

What You Will Own

• Weekly and monthly execution plans across engineering, ML and business teams
• Task boards, standups and progress tracking, with blockers flagged early
• Hands-on coding for internal tools, fixes and integrations
• Cloud and tooling cost tracking and optimisation
• Pilot and customer delivery with technical and commercial teams
• Vendor, provider and subscription management, including billing, ownership and renewals
• Compliance and data governance processes (PDPA, data requests, breach response, provider data retention)
• Grants, credit programs and partner programs (AWS, Google Cloud, Singapore schemes)
• Hiring and onboarding, from job posts to screening to offers
• Investor, partner and customer materials such as data rooms, decks and pricing sheets
• Internal documentation, SOPs and company records
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years in operations, program management or technical program roles, ideally at a tech startup
• Hands-on coding experience in a modern language
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD (AWS preferred)
• Comfortable with Git, code reviews and reading production logs
• Experience working with engineers and non-technical teams
• Strong written English, clear communication and structured thinking
• Comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities and no existing playbook
• Able to manage many threads at once and close each one
  
  

Strong Plus

• AI, SaaS or API product experience
• Experience managing cloud costs
• Experience with PDPA, GDPR or similar compliance
• Grant or startup program applications (EDG, Startup SG, AWS Activate)
• Experience in Southeast Asian markets or multilingual teams
• Hiring and recruiting experience
  
  

Who Will Thrive Here

• You take ownership without being asked
• You are happy to switch between planning and getting your hands dirty
• You write things down and keep records clean
• You stay calm when production breaks
• You follow up until it’s done
  
  

This Role Is Wrong For You If

• You need detailed instructions every day
• You prefer a narrow, fixed scope
• You want a purely managerial role with no hands-on work
• You are uncomfortable with fast changes and pivots
  
  

What You’ll Get

• Direct work with the CEO and CTO
• Full ownership of how the company operates
• Meaningful equity in an early-stage company
• Remote-first work with a team across Southeast Asia
• This is an equity-only role. No salary is provided at this stage.
  
  

About VALSEA

VALSEA is speech intelligence infrastructure for Southeast Asia, built for the accents, dialects and code-switching that other AI tools miss.