Senior Associate - CEO Office

About Inception42

Role overview

Business analysis and initiative delivery

• Diagnose ambiguous problems using research, data, and stakeholder input; build business cases and analyses to recommend priorities and sequencing.
• Prepare executive decision materials that distinguish evidence from assumptions and clarify recommendations, trade-offs, owners, and next steps.
• Lead initiatives through implementation and outcome review, using integrated workplans, critical paths, milestones, dependencies, RAID management, and benefit realization.
• Track CEO Office priorities, verify progress against evidence, resolve blockers, and develop recovery plans for delayed work.

Governance and AI-enabled improvement

• Run governance and leadership reviews, maintain action closure, align stakeholders, and escalate material issues with recommendations.
• Redesign manual processes and build working prototypes using approved AI tools, automation, low-code platforms, or AI-assisted development.

Candidate requirements

• Relevant experience in strategy and operations, implementation-led consulting, transformation, product or business operations, or a CEO or Chief of Staff office.
• Evidence of independently diagnosing complex problems and leading implementation, recovering delayed initiatives, and securing cross-functional action closure without formal authority.
• Strong command of integrated planning, critical-path management, governance, RAID logs, decision registers, action tracking, KPI reporting, and benefit realization.
• Essential: have built and tested an AI-enabled workflow or tool used by others and be able to explain its limitations and value delivered.
• Strong quantitative and commercial judgment, including business cases, scenario analysis, and performance diagnosis; confidence using data, spreadsheets, and dashboards.
• Ability to translate business needs into requirements and prototypes with technical teams and judge AI limitations, data quality, confidentiality, security, and human oversight.
• Excellent executive writing and stakeholder skills, discretion, constructive challenge, reliable follow-through, adaptability, and collaboration.

What Inception42 offers

• An open, diverse, inclusive environment with a global vision and opportunities for personal growth and innovation.
• Learning and development through structured training and high-tech projects.
• Competitive remuneration and benefits including healthcare, education support, and leave benefits.