Bjak

CEO, AI Finance at Bjak (China)

Bjak · China·

Role details

Work type
Remote
Employment
Full-Time

Bjak at a glance

Southeast Asia's largest online insurance comparison platform, letting users compare, buy and renew insurance and roadtax from 16 insurers in one place.

Bjak is a BNM-licensed online marketplace where Malaysians compare quotes from 16 insurers and takaful operators, then buy and renew car, motorcycle, travel, life, medical and home insurance online. It bundles roadtax renewal, roadside assistance, car repair booking and AI tools around the core comparison engine.

Job description

About ActAI

There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting. Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations. Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things

About the Role

The CEO - AI Finance will build and own our AI-native finance business. The role will identify where AI can fundamentally improve how consumers manage money and build products across spending, saving, investing and other everyday financial needs.

What you will be doing

  • Define the AI Finance product strategy, roadmap and business model.
  • Identify financial workflows where AI can materially improve the user experience, cost or speed.
  • Build AI-native financial products from concept through launch and scale.
  • Own P&L, customer growth, revenue, unit economics and operating performance.
  • Work deeply with product, engineering and AI teams on product capabilities and user experience.
  • Build the core team across product, technology, operations and commercial functions.
  • Expand into new financial products and markets as the business scales.

What you will need

  • Strong experience building consumer fintech, financial services or technology products.
  • Direct ownership of a meaningful product, business or P&L.
  • Strong understanding of consumer finance, business models and unit economics.
  • Strong product judgement and understanding of how AI can change existing financial workflows.
  • Experience building products and teams in high-growth technology environments.
  • Hands-on operating style - able to work directly through product, AI capabilities, economics and customer problems.

Why work at Bjak

  • Culture: “Results first” – outcomes over effort; direct feedback; flat organization with minimal bureaucracy; high ownership and speed.
  • Work Environment: Remote‑friendly with a “distributed team of experts” and offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK. Recruiting globally.
  • Engineering Focus: Lean, autonomous teams that prioritise product excellence and swift delivery.
  • Career Growth: Rapidly scaling company with 356 open roles (including Lead, Founder’s Office, iOS Engineer, DevOps, ML Engineer) – opportunities for impact and advancement.
  • Note on Employer Rating: Current Glassdoor-style rating is 2.3/5 (198 reviews) – potential concerns around work‑life balance and compensation. Candidates should verify recent employee sentiment during interviews.

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