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Fractional Chief of Staff (10 hours/week)

Fractional Chief of Staff (10 hours/week)

Get 2 more hours of sleep per day, family time or simply chilling on your couch, knowing that ad-hoc, crucial, urgent tasks are in the right hands

Sample works:
- Fundraising strategy & slides
- Product management
- Business analysis
- Operational improvements

Fractional Chief of Staff (20 hours/week)

Fractional Chief of Staff (20 hours/week)

Get the peace of mind knowing that "that project that has been at the back of your mind for ages" will finally get done

Sample works:
- Setting up OKR/KPI/performance management
- User demography and behaviour analysis
- Go-to-market playbook/guidelines/SOP
- Product vision & strategy

Fractional Chief of Staff (30 hours/week)

Fractional Chief of Staff (30 hours/week)

Your company needs more manpower, but you don't have a budget to hire 1 Product Manager + 1 Data Analyst + 1 Strategist

Area of expertise:
- Strategy & Insights
- Prioritisation & Execution
- Operational Excellence
- Project/Change Management
- Performance Monitoring Dashboards
- Interim COO/HoD

Experiences

Strategy Consultant at McKinsey & Company

Strategy Consultant at McKinsey & Company

The world's oldest and most prestigious management consulting firm (and the hardest to interview with)

- Delivered $500 mn cost savings through procurement and contract management for an energy client

- Boosted productivity by 20% by implementing operational improvements for a mining client

Strategy & Operations Manager at Grab (Uber group)

Strategy & Operations Manager at Grab (Uber group)

Southeast Asia’s most valuable Unicorn tech company with 1.2 mn daily active users. Acquired Uber

- Saved USD 1.4 mn costs by implementing operational excellence, workflow automations and web-based tools

- Sped up onboarding from 3 days to <1 hour by spearheading the company’s first AI initiative

Product Manager & Product Operations at Cookpad

Product Manager & Product Operations at Cookpad

The world’s biggest recipe app in 70+ countries with 100 mn monthly active users

- Boosted team productivity by 100% by introducing an effective resource management framework

- Increased the CTR of a feature by 40% and repeat visit by 20% by conducting 12 sets of A/B testing and ML improvements

The Unblessed Generation, a novel

The Unblessed Generation, a novel

I helped a writer organize her historical epic fiction with 20+ characters and 3 parallel storylines over 30 years. I used Agile and Kanban methods to structure the story, prioritize scenes and resolve plot holes.

The book received a 4.8 rating on Goodreads and went through a reprint within a year

Fractional Chief of Staff at GoodKind.id

Fractional Chief of Staff at GoodKind.id

Triple-hatted as a strategy consultant, data analyst, and product manager for a seed-funded a citizen activism app (20 hours/week)

"Her versatility and innovative perspective were truly impressive. I highly recommend her due to her speed, adaptability, and lasting impact on our team." -- CEO

Fractional Chief of Staff at Gotrade

Fractional Chief of Staff at Gotrade

Series A FinTech that pioneered selling US stocks in Southeast Asian market (10 hours/week)

I assisted the CEO for ad-hoc projects such as creating pitch slides and strategy for fundraising, suggested and implemented operational improvements and product manage an internal tool

Education: University and Beyond

Education: University and Beyond

Graduated from number 1 university in Asia (and number 8 in the world)

8 years of mentorship with ex-MBB consultants direct managers, where I honed my problem solving, stakeholder management and project management skills

Certifications in both waterfall and Agile project management (PMP & PSPO)

Outside Work

Outside Work

I write short fictional stories and read them out loud at a Waterstone bookstore in Bristol

I love learning languages that includes Japanese, Spanish, Chinese and Makaton sign language. I'm a native Indonesian speaker.

I am a regular at some boardgame meet-ups.

I love spicy food

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  • i.e. Marketing director
  • i.e. Mentor
  • Chief Of Staff
  • Management Consultant
  • Strategy Consultant
  • Operations & Strategy Consultant
  • Business Operations
  • Business Analyst
  • Product Manager
  • Product Operations
  • Process Improvement Specialist
  • Technical Project Manager
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Industries (/)
  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • Technology
  • Food tech
  • Ride hailing
  • Social media
  • Management consulting
  • Strategy consulting
  • Start-ups / scale-ups
  • SME
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Career experience

6-9 years

Regions
  • Europe, 
  • Middle East, 
  • Africa, 
  • Southeastern Asia, 
  • North America (east coast), 
  • North America (west coast), 
  • Central & South America, 
  • Central & South Asia, 
  • Caribbean
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Business Strategy
  • business operations & Strategy
  • Product Strategy
  • Digital Transformation
  • Business Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • Product Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Scaling and Growth
  • Executive Advisory
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  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Scrum Master
  • Special Projects
  • Project Management
  • Excel
  • Operational Excellence
  • AI/ML
  • Process Automation
  • sql
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