Special Projects Lead (Senior Management)

OrgScale Recruitment Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct exposure to senior leadership

Scope that grows as the business does

Competitive compensation, benchmarked

Job summary

OrgScale Recruitment Sdn Bhd is seeking a Special Projects Lead to work alongside senior leadership on problems that don’t fit a single department. You will be deployed across strategy, operations, commercial, technology and people to deliver defined outcomes from vague starting points.

This role requires a proven track record of building a function, team, system, market entry or business, with hands-on execution and a bias for speed. Strong ownership and structured thinking are essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to take unfamiliar problems and structure them quickly.
• Proven track record of building teams, processes or businesses from zero.
• Strong written and verbal communication under pressure.
• Ownership mindset with end-to-end delivery responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own ambiguous, cross-functional problems across strategy, operations, commercial, technology and people.
• Structure problems, focus on what matters, and drive to a decision or shipped outcome.
• Work directly with the Managing Director and senior leadership as a thinking and execution partner.
• Move between domains and contexts without losing quality or pace.
• Set up processes, structures, teams, frameworks and ways of working where none exist.

Skills

Structured thinking

Clear written and verbal communication

Sound judgement under pressure

Ownership

Ambidextrous mindset

Tools

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

Lark

Job description

Special Projects Lead (Senior Management)

About the Opportunity: Own the Problems Nobody Else Can Solve

We're hiring a Special Projects Lead to work directly alongside senior leadership on the problems that don't belong to any specific department — the ones that are too new, too messy, or too important to hand to a function.

The role has no fixed scope by design. You'll be deployed across strategy, operations, commercial, technology and people, wherever the business needs a high-ownership operator who can walk into something undefined and come out the other side with a result.

This is not a role for someone who needs a brief before they can start. We're looking for someone who has built things before — a function, a team, a system, a market entry, a business — and wants to keep doing it.

What You'll Own

Solve Hard, Undefined Problems — Hands-On

Take on ambiguous challenges across strategy, operations, commercial, tech and people

Structure the problem yourself, work out what actually matters, and drive to a decision or a shipped outcome

Work directly with the Managing Director and senior leadership as a thinking and execution partner

Move between domains and contexts without losing quality or pace

Build, Don't Just Deliver

Take work from unclear starting point to finished result — no handing back something half-done

Set up what doesn't exist yet: processes, structures, teams, frameworks, ways of working

Anticipate what's needed before you're asked, and surface risks early rather than late

Manage several live priorities at once without dropping any of them

Are You the Right Fit?

Smarts — You can take an unfamiliar problem, understand it quickly, and work out what to do. You don't need to have seen it before to handle it well.

Ownership — You treat the work as yours. You close loops, follow through, and don't need chasing. When something goes wrong you fix it rather than elevate it.

Track record of building — You've set something up from zero. A department, a team, an operation in a new market, a framework, a company. You can tell us what existed before, what you did, and what exists now.

Base skills — Structured thinking, clear written and verbal communication, sound judgement under pressure. Non-negotiable.

Attitude — This is the dealbreaker. No entitlement, no pass-the-buck, no waiting to be told. We move fast and expect people who move with us.

Staying power — At least 10 years' experience, including at least one stretch of 4+ years at the same company. We care about people who stayed long enough to see something through.

We don't screen on industry, function, job title or qualification. We've hired finance leaders, operations leaders, data leaders, product builders and consultants into this kind of work, and some of the strongest people we've hired had the plainest CVs.

What the people who do well here have in common:

They built or set up something that didn't exist before

They own a result personally — a result they can point at and say that one was mine

They've operated somewhere they couldn't bluff their way through: regulators, authorities, turnarounds, crises, or hard counterparties

They did things nobody asked them to do, because they could see it needed doing

They stayed somewhere long enough to live with the consequences of their own decisions

Role-specific experience is a bonus, not a requirement.

This probably isn't for you if

Your track record is mostly about delivering what was assigned to you, or your last several roles were each under a year.

Tools & Ways of Working

Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Lark, and whatever else the team is using. We expect you to pick up new tools fast rather than wait for training.

What We Offer

Direct exposure to senior leadership from day one

Scope that grows as the business does

Competitive compensation, benchmarked to experience and demonstrated ability