Assistant Manager, Platform Governance, Operations

Grab; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Southeast Asian superapp is seeking a leader for their Platform Governance team in Petaling Jaya. The role involves overseeing operational quality, guiding process improvements, and implementing data-driven insights to ensure platform integrity. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in business process improvement and strong analytical skills. Benefits include comprehensive insurance and flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

Term Life Insurance

Comprehensive Medical Insurance

FlexWork arrangements

Parental and Birthday leave

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in business process improvement.
• Proven track record in designing scalable processes.
• Basic proficiency in SQL for data querying.

Responsibilities

• Lead Grab's Platform Governance team and oversee operational quality.
• Convert policies into scalable workflows for team deployment.
• Define key metrics for monitoring policy execution health.
• Implement the QA audit framework for execution teams.

Skills

Business process improvement

Operational efficiency

Process mapping

SQL

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

Company Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Platform Quality & Experience team at Grab is composed of passionate individuals dedicated to maintaining and improving the experience of users on our platform. This dynamic group is at the heart of our operations, ensuring that each interaction is smooth. We believe in insights from user behaviour and data analysis to foster a positive experience for everyone involved with Grab, from driver and delivery‑partners to merchant‑partners and consumers. As a member of this team, you'll be collaborating across teams and contributing to the strategic advancement of the platform's quality and experience.

Get to Know the Role

• Lead Grab's Platform Governance team, overseeing operational quality and policy execution.
• You will guide a team focused on analytical insights, QA audits, and process improvement, while also defining monitoring metrics for execution health.
• We seek a process‑oriented leader who uses data to drive change to ensure platform integrity.
• This onsite role reports to the Manager, Platform Quality & Experience.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Operationalize Policy Rollouts: You convert new policies into scalable workflows for the team, ensuring rapid and accurate deployment across the platform.
• Develop Operational Monitoring Strategy: You define key metrics and methods for monitoring policy execution health, and partner with the BI teams to develop necessary monitoring tools.
• Drive Strategic Process Improvement: You identify, and lead projects to optimise workflows, increase automation, and reduce operational costs for manual policy tasks.
• Lead the Quality Assurance (QA) Function: You define and rigorously implement the QA audit framework for all execution teams, ensuring high accuracy and policy consistency across the platform.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have a minimum of 5 years' experience in business process improvement, including process mapping, operating model design; and regional or global operations experience.
• You have a proven track record in designing scalable processes and driving operational efficiency – this is critical for this role.
• You have basic proficiency in SQL for querying data and supporting analytical decision‑making.
• You have advanced skills in Excel and Google Sheets.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands is made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.