Job Description

About Propseller
Propseller is the "Modern Real Estate Agency that Stands by You". Our mission is to help our clients achieve the most when making one of the biggest financial decisions of their life: selling, buying, or renting real estate. We do that by offering them the state-of-the-art real estate agent service of the 21st century: highly valuable, completely transparent, and fairly priced. A service that will, hopefully, make them love real estate agents (again).
At Propseller, we are building the first technology-powered real estate brokerage in South-East Asia. We elevate the most human part of the service with top agents you can trust. Then, we industrialize all the rest with technology and centralized operations. By rethinking the way properties are transacted, keeping what works, and changing what doesn't, we are able to deliver more while charging less. In Singapore, where we currently operate, that means we sell homes 2 times faster for only 1% commission (vs. 2% standard), saving people S$10,000 per transaction on average.
Role Description
Reporting directly to our Chief Executive Officer, the Chief of Staff ("CoS") is a highly talented and committed individual helping the CEO to connect vision with execution by driving the operating mechanisms of the organisation.
Acting as a strategic partner and a trusted advisor, you are the most junior member of the executive team, one of the most connected individuals in the organisation, and the champion of transversality. You drive strategy and operating systems for the organisation. You own cross-functional and special projects. You run the office of the CEO, including internal communication, investors relations, and day-to-day operations.
With plans to grow our team from 50 to 250 over the next 24 months on the back of our Series A, this role is an amazing opportunity for an associate/mid-senior level high potential individual to be at the forefront of exponential growth alongside the executive team. Being Propseller Chief of Staff for 24 months is worth 10x more than any ivy league MBA.
Some famous Chief of Staff (CoS):
In "House of Cards",
Doug Stamper
is the CoS of Frank Underwood
Before being French president,
Emmanuel Macron
was deputy-CoS of Francois Hollande
Keywords:
Strategy, operations, facilitation, analysis, organisation, project, communication, leadership, relationship management.
Duties & Responsibilities
Drive Strategy & Operating System
Strategic Planning: Feed executive team with strategic insights, then review and coordinate annual/quarterly planning. With managers, align company-wide OKRs;
Critical Path Activities: prepare, facilitate and follow up on critical meetings and tasks such as executive team meetings, all hands meetings, or critical projects;
Collaborative Execution Champion: Design and execute operating mechanisms (meeting cadence, policies, GTD) to drive high output out of team-work.
Own Cross-Functional and Special Projects
Independently own cross-functional company projects;
Incubate new functions that don't fall neatly into any existing teams;
Solve critical issues or crises as they arise.
Run CEO's Office
Internal Communication: set direction and frequency of internal communications.
Draft written communication and oversee company-wide events (all hands, retreat);
External Communication: develop draft presentations and investor updates. Lead the preparation and facilitate quarterly board meetings;
Leverage CEO's Impact:
Act as the sparring partner of the CEO;
Review documents on behalf of the CEO and prepare CEO's key meetings;
Ensure follow-up happens on decisions made without the CEO having to check.
Ideal Candidate
This is a role for you if you are a very high potential currently at an associate/mid-senior level in consulting, investment banking/VC, or a high-growth start-up. You are deeply passionate about cross-functional project management, high-level thinking, and on-the-ground execution. You are counted on as a thought leader in your current role because you can download a huge amount of information and synthesize a vision out of it into a plan that drives stakeholders' engagement 360 degrees.
You are extremely organized and very good at getting things done, systematically. You are ready and not afraid to do everything: working on your own projects at 9 am, fixing a bug in the operating plan model at 10 am, picking up dry cleaning of your CEO at 11 am, and pitching a VC partner at noon. At this stage of your career at least, you are looking for accelerated learning but you are comfortable being in a role that has a huge impact yet almost no spotlight.
We expect the CoS to commit to the role at least 18 months before moving on to another role. With 18 months or more of accelerated strategic and holistic learnings, you'll be an ideal candidate to lead a function, or geography, with or without an intermediary role.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree from a top-tier university;
4 years of working experience in top-tier management consulting, investment banking, or VC or in the strategy or project management function of a technology company;
High analytical and problem-solving abilities;
Strong written and verbal communication skills;
Detail-oriented enough to produce documentation for senior stakeholders;
Demonstrated success in managing complex, cross-functional projects;
Extremely versatile and able to jump into any role when required;
Highly structured and organized with the ability to build systems from scratch;
Ability to think critically and autonomously about various disciplines and domains;
Empathy and emotional awareness are required to lead with influence;
Mastery of spreadsheet-based modeling and analysis;
You Get
Central, iconic office near Lavender, Bendemeer, and Farrer Park MRTs;
Be involved in strategic decisions that make a real impact and get involved in the day-to-day running of a Series A start-up;
State-of-the-art-tools: MacBook Pro, Jabra Headset, fully-integrated CRM, etc;
At least two days home-office per week after training, more possible;
Opportunity to make history and help thousands of people with the biggest financial decision of a lifetime.
Recruiting Process
Ideal length: 2 weeks
If your application is selected:
Interview 1 - Video Call: Introductory call
First case to be prepared at home
Interview 2 - Video Call: Case presentation with one of our team member
Second case to be prepared at home
Interview 3 - Physical: Case presentation with our CEO + 1 team member
Interview 4 - Physical: Interview with our CCO + 1 team member
Reference Check
Welcome aboard!
Our People, Investors and Accolades
Are you looking for the "next big thing"? Real Estate is the largest asset class on Earth and we are on a mission to make it better. Do you enjoy learning and growing every day in a dynamic start-up environment? We have assembled a highly driven "AAA" team of real estate, growth, and technology professionals. Our current team members studied at top universities (NUS, NTU, SMU, INSEAD, ESSEC, ESCP, St Gallen, etc.), and founded/were early employees in top startups (Shopback, Zalora, Groupon, etc.)
In June 2020, Propseller was one of the
8 SEA startups selected to be part of the first cohort of the accelerator Iterative
. In July 2020, Propseller was ranked #15 in
TechInAsia's ranking of Top 50 rising startups in Southeast Asia
. In October 2020, Propseller announced a S$1.7m Seed Round from top VCs such as Target Global, Sequoia Capital, Hustle Fund and high-profile angel investors from Lazada, Google, Expedia, Sotheby's, PropNex, PropertyGuru, and DotProperty. The fundraising was
covered by The Business Times
. As of October 2021, we are a team of more than 35 people. To support our growth, we are hiring another 20 people as-soon-as-possible. We are multicultural and we collectively speak a total of 9 different languages. We enjoy having fun while working hard in a diverse environment. We are assembling an A-team and are hiring the best for every role.
Interested in knowing more? Check our
Careers Page
.