Full Time Strategy Associate, Founders' Office Jobs, in Pints AI - Maukerja

We are looking for a person who can turn the founders' open questions into decisions, and keep those decisions moving after they are made.

This role sits in the founders' office. You report to both founders, and you work with each of them every day. You do not run delivery, sales or engineering. You make the people who do faster and better informed.

Most weeks you will spend more time writing than talking. If you can take a question from a blank page to a recommendation, and write it short enough that a founder can decide from one page, this role is for you.

About Pints AI

Pints AI is a multi-award-winning AI company based in Singapore, known for deploying on-premise, privacy-preserving AI systems in some of Asia's most regulated industries - including banks, insurers, and government entities.

• Won AI in Finance Global Challenge (2023) at SFF in Singapore
• Built the 1.5 Pints open-source model - a compact LLM outperforming Apple's OpenELM and Microsoft's Phi-1.5
• Developed Autothought, our on-premises agent orchestration platform, now deployed in banks, insurers and asset managers
• Engineered SentientRAG, a low-hallucination RAG framework optimized for compliance-heavy data

Today we have 12+ live institutional deployments across Singapore, APAC and the Gulf. We have raised a US$5.6M Pre-Series A and are admitted to MAS's ************* initiative.

Responsibilities

• Run market-entry research and write go or no-go recommendations
• Own our pipeline of government and partner programmes
• Check that what we say about the product matches what we have shipped
• Keep the running record for our anchor client accounts
• Run our events calendar and own our brand position
• Build the facts and the options when the founders have a decision to make

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years in a role where you were paid to think and write: strategy consulting, corporate strategy, investment or equity research, a founders' office, or programme management in government or a bank
• Based in Singapore, with the right to work here

Skills & Traits We're Looking For

• You have taken at least one research or analysis project from a blank page to a recommendation that someone acted on
• You write short. A reader can make a decision from your one page without asking you a question
• You are comfortable in a room with a bank or insurer executive, and you know when to speak and when to take notes
• You can read a product roadmap, a grant call and a sales deck, and see where they disagree
• Experience with Singapore government programmes (MAS, IMDA, EnterpriseSG) or hyperscaler partner programmes is a bonus
• Experience in financial services, especially insurance, is a bonus
• Experience running B2B events or a brand or content calendar is a bonus, if you can show one that moved a pipeline and not just attendance
• Knowing how LLM and agent products are built and sold is a bonus. You do not need to code, but you need to follow a technical conversation and ask the right next question

What You'll Do

1. Market and Expansion Research

• Run a market-entry study from start to end: market size, regulatory map, buyer list, partner route and cost to enter
• Write a go or no-go recommendation and present it to both founders

2. Programmes and Grants

• Own the pipeline of government and partner programmes, such as MAS *************, IMDA, EnterpriseSG and Microsoft Azure Pegasus
• For each programme, record the eligibility, what we must build or submit, the owners and the dates
• Track each programme to submission and outcome

3. Product and Plan Integrity

• Check what we say about the product against what we have shipped
• Check that the roadmap matches the sales material and the board plan
• Flag each gap before a client or the board finds it, with a proposed fix and an owner

4. Key Accounts

• Join the founders on three to five anchor accounts in Singapore
• Keep the record for each account: open items, promises made, next meeting and risks
• Prepare the founders before each meeting, and follow up on every action after it

5. Events and Brand (25 to 30 percent of your time)

• Run the events calendar: which conferences, forums and roundtables we attend, host or speak at
• Own the run-sheet, materials, guest list and follow-up for each event
• Own our brand position, and keep it consistent across our decks, website, LinkedIn and content series

6. Strategy Support

• When the founders need to decide something (our next market, pricing, a new product line), build the facts and the options
• You do not make the call. You make the call easy to make

7. Growth Path

• After 18 months, move to Senior Associate based on performance
• Become the first hire into the Chief of Staff or COO office when we create that function

A Typical Week

• Monday: 30 minutes with both founders. You bring one page: what moved last week, what is stuck, and the three decisions you need from them
• Tuesday to Thursday: two or three client or partner meetings with a founder, each with a pre-read from you the day before and a written follow-up the same day. One block goes to events and brand. The rest is focused work: research, a programme submission, or a product check against a sales deck
• Friday: the programme register and the account records are up to date. Every open item has an owner and a date. You send both founders a five-line note on where things stand

This Role Is Not For You If

• You want a fixed scope. Six areas will become four, then five
• You need daily direction. You will get a weekly steer and a clear deliverable, and then we leave you to do the work
• You prefer to present rather than write. The founders read; they do not sit through decks
• You think account follow-up is admin work. In this role, it is how we keep deals alive