General Manager, Japan

Job description

About BJAK The original mission of BJAK is we believe people deserve smarter ways to plan, save and grow their money. This is the origin of our name. Started in 2019, we built the first mobile-first, insurance platform, enabling insurance to be accessible online by millions in the region. Today, its the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia. Today, we are expanding ways to help people in the region — this includes spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more. Our mission is help people get more from their money every day. We have teams working around the world, with over 20 nationalities from our offices and remotely, who truly enjoys their work. We are looking for the most talented and driven people we can find. We are looking for people who work for their passion, not counting hours. Who loves building great next-generation products, not status quo. Who cares about redefining how everyone around us can get the best financial applications, not for an exclusive few. If you're this person, we'd love to talk to you. The Role We are looking for a General Manager to build and lead a business from end to end. You will own the P&L, product, team and execution. You will identify opportunities, decide what to build, hire the team, launch and improve products, and drive growth and profitability. This is a hands-on operating role with direct accountability for business results. What You'll Be Doing - Own P&L, business strategy, targets and overall performance - Identify customer needs and commercial opportunities, and decide what products and features to build - Work directly with product, engineering and design teams to build and launch products - Build the team - hire strong people, set clear goals and manage performance - Drive user growth, engagement, revenue and profitability - Build partnerships and operations required to launch and scale the business - Make decisions quickly, solve problems directly and own execution from idea to results What We're Looking For - Strong track record building, launching or scaling a product, business or business unit - Experience owning P&L, revenue, growth or other measurable business outcomes - Strong product and commercial judgement - Ability to work across product, engineering, operations and commercial functions - Experience building and leading strong teams - Hands-on approach - comfortable moving between strategy and detailed execution - Strong ownership, speed and ability to operate with limited structure - Experience in fintech, consumer technology or AI is an advantage