Vice President, AI Deployment & Strategy (Indonesia)

SaxeCap; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 3,272,132,000 - 5,453,554,000; Full time

Job summary

SaxeCap is hiring a Vice President, AI Strategy & Deployment to lead the AI transformation efforts for portfolio companies in Indonesia, driving measurable EBITDA impact. You will manage technical teams, design end-to-end value creation roadmaps, and engage sponsors, founders, and executives to deliver rapid AI-enabled improvements.

You will operate across multiple workstreams, aligning technical opportunities with business outcomes while navigating data infrastructure maturity and regulatory

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience spanning two or more areas (private equity, AI/ML product management, strategy consulting, investment banking, or engineering).
• Hands-on experience leading teams of engineers/data scientists or analysts.
• Real AI/ML fluency: discuss model architectures, data pipelines, trade-offs with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Own full lifecycle of AI-driven value creation across the PE portfolio from first engagement to deployment.
• Design transformation roadmaps for portfolio companies and manage production AI deployments.
• Support investment underwriting for SaxeCap's PE vehicle and lead business development with new partners.
• Coordinate with global sponsors and Indonesian management teams to translate playbooks into action.

Skills

AI/ML strategy

PE experience

Strategy consulting

Stakeholder mgmt

Engineering leadership

Python

SQL

Education

CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Python

SQL

Data science tools

Job description

About SaxeCap

SaxeCap is the premier AI transformation and investment platform in private equity. We pioneered the concept of buying out traditional businesses and transforming them with AI in 2018, and today we are the go-to AI transformation partner for 70+ PE firms globally, including 9 of the 10 largest by AUM as well as the world's leading sovereign wealth funds. We've transformed 200+ businesses across healthcare services, business services, financial services, software, consumer, and more, driving billions of dollars of enterprise value expansion along the way.

We operate at the intersection of three businesses: (1) a private equity investment arm, (2) an in-house AI transformation firm that designs and deploys bespoke GenAI, ML, and automation solutions, and (3) a suite of proprietary software products. Our team comes from places like Google, Palantir, Meta, Surge AI, Blackstone, TPG, Cerberus, Millennium, Balyasny, McKinsey, Bain, Oliver Wyman, MIT, Stanford, IIT, GSB, HBS, and Wharton. Our leadership includes early investors in OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, SpaceX, Neuralink, Mercor, Lambda Labs, etc. But what makes our team exceptional isn't where they came from or what they've invested in, it's what they ship. We are builders.

With established teams across North America, South America, India, and the United Kingdom, we are now expanding across Asia and continental Europe. This role is our first hire in Indonesia, and you will be the foundation of the team we build there.

About the Role

We are hiring a Vice President, AI Strategy & Deployment to join our AI transformation team and establish our presence in Indonesia, working with global and regional sponsors and the portfolio companies they own across the country. This is not a traditional consulting or investment role. You will own the full lifecycle of AI-driven value creation across our PE partner portfolio, from first engagement with a sponsor, through deep technical and strategic analysis, to managing our engineers and data scientists as they build and deploy solutions that move EBITDA.

You will operate across a range of workstreams simultaneously: evaluating AI opportunities for PE sponsors under deal timelines, designing comprehensive transformation roadmaps for portfolio companies, managing technical teams through production AI deployments, supporting investment underwriting for SaxeCap's own PE vehicle, and leading business development with new partners. The common thread: you are the person who connects AI's technical potential to measurable business value, and you own the outcome end to end.

In Indonesia specifically, you will be our lead on the ground in Southeast Asia's largest economy. Global and regional sponsors, sovereign investors, and the country's major conglomerates own businesses across healthcare services, financial services, consumer, and business services that combine real scale with significant room for AI-driven improvement in operations, sales, and service. You will translate SaxeCap's playbook into that context: earning the trust of Indonesian management teams and founding families, navigating relationship-driven decision processes, managing deployments where data infrastructure is often still being built, and forming the working relationships that make a transformation stick. You will also help us recruit and develop the engineers and operators who come after you.

About You

You are a hybrid: part technologist, part strategist, part operator. You are equally comfortable whiteboarding a model architecture with an ML engineer, presenting an AI transformation roadmap to a private equity partner, and pressure-testing an LBO model. You move fast, you think in structures, and you obsess over shipped outcomes rather than theoretical potential. Specifically:

• 5 to 10 years of experience spanning two or more of: private equity, AI/ML product management, strategy consulting (MBB or comparable preferred), investment banking, or engineering
• You have managed teams of 5+ people (engineers, data scientists, consultants, or analysts) and held them accountable to ambitious timelines
• You have managed executive and C-suite stakeholder relationships, ideally in a PE or PE-adjacent context
• You have real AI/ML fluency: you can discuss model architectures, data pipelines, and build-vs-buy trade-offs with technical teams, not just at a buzzword level. Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and data science tools is expected. Experience shipping ML products, managing RLHF programs, or building GenAI solutions is a strong differentiator.
• You have experience quantifying enterprise value and EBITDA impact of technology or transformation initiatives; not just tracking KPIs, but tying technical outcomes to P&L
• You have product management instincts: understanding user pain points, scoping technical solutions, and managing the build through deployment
• You have operated in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where the scope, stakeholders, and approach shift rapidly, and you thrive in that context rather than resist it
• You have business-level fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English, and can present to an Indonesian board of directors and to a global sponsor's investment committee with equal credibility
• You understand how Indonesian companies make decisions in practice, including the role of founding families and group structures, and how to move initiatives through them without losing speed
• You have familiar with the Indonesian regulatory and data environment, including the Personal Data Protection Law (UU PDP), OJK requirements for financial services, and data localization considerations, and can design AI deployments that respect them
• You are an Indonesian citizen or is eligible for a work permit (KITAS) in Indonesia
• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field from a top-tier institution

What Sets the Best Candidates Apart

The people who excel at SaxeCap share a specific profile. They are not pure technologists and not pure dealmakers, they are the rare operators who can do both. The strongest signals we look for:

• Shipped AI, not just studied it. You have built or managed the build of AI/ML solutions that went to production and drove measurable business outcomes. Led AI strategy without specifics doesn't move the needle. Shipped an ML model that reduced X by Y%, managing a team of Z engineers does.
• PE-grade rigor under time pressure. You can form accurate conviction on an AI opportunity from limited information and present that conviction to a PE partner with confidence. If you've worked on a live deal, you know what this feels like.
• Builder DNA. You don't just recommend, you build. Side projects, open-source contributions, 0-to-1 products, or intrapreneurial ventures all signal the instinct we're looking for.
• Structured synthesis at scale. You can process massive amounts of qualitative and quantitative information and distill it into a prioritized plan that senior executives can act on. This is the hardest skill to find and the one we value most.
• Comfort building where the infrastructure is not yet built. Many Indonesian businesses are still digitizing core processes even as they adopt AI. The people who excel here can design a transformation that delivers value now while putting the data foundations in place for what comes next, and they see that as the opportunity rather than the obstacle.

Compensation & Growth

SaxeCap offers highly competitive compensation, and you will work directly with our senior leadership from day one, with significant client exposure and rapid professional development. The team is lean by design, there are no layers between you and impact. As our first hire in Indonesia, you will have a direct hand in shaping how SaxeCap grows across the country and the wider region.