Strategy Officer (Junior)

Silicon X; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Job summary

Silicon X, a fabless semiconductor company in Kuala Lumpur, seeks a Strategy Officer to support the MD in forming and monitoring company strategy. You will turn strategic intent into documented plans, drive execution across the organisation, and maintain reporting that tracks success.

Responsibilities include investor relations, grant applications, and collaboration with compliance, corporate and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline with a strong academic record.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Working proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia sufficient to draft and review submissions to government agencies.
• Strong command of Excel and PowerPoint; comfortable building clear slides from a blank page.
• Structured thinker; able to break ambiguous problems into parts with written recommendations.
• Meticulous attention to detail; grant submissions and investor documents require accuracy.
• Willingness to chase, follow up and hold others to committed dates without formal authority.
• Self-directed, organized, and comfortable in a startup with shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• As Strategy Officer, drive strategic lifecycle by researching, implementing and monitoring KPIs.
• Manage investor relations, government grants, and compliance coordination.
• Bridge corporate and engineering teams to streamline communication and cadence.
• Support market development by gathering FPGA landscape intelligence for go-to-market strategies.
• Provide robust project management oversight across schedules, deliverables and risks.
• Prepare research and option papers; structure questions into clear recommendations with evidence.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Project management

Excel

PowerPoint

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Computer Science or related

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Gantt charts

Job description

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The Strategy Officer exists to support the Managing Director in forming, implementing and monitoring company strategy. You will help turn strategic intent into documented plans, help drive those plans into execution across the organisation, and maintain the reporting and tracking that tells us whether they are working. We are looking for raw analytical horsepower, exceptional communication with all channels, and someone who takes ownership without being chased.

Location: Kuala Lumpur (with regular travel to Penang and occasional travel for meetings with agencies, partners and customers)

Level: Fresh Graduate / Entry Level

Reports to: Founder & Managing Director

Key responsibilities

As a Strategy Officer, you will drive the company's strategic lifecycle by researching, implementing, and monitoring key business objectives and KPIs. Externally, you will manage investor relations, handle government grant applications, and coordinate with compliance professionals, while internally serving as the vital bridge between corporate and engineering teams to streamline communication and meeting cadences. Furthermore, you will support market development by gathering intelligence on the FPGA landscape to inform go-to-market strategies, and provide robust project management oversight by tracking schedules, deliverables, and risks across all commercial and product milestones.

Prepare research, analysis and option papers that inform the MD's strategic decisions; structure ambiguous questions into clear frameworks and written recommendations with supporting evidence

Support the annual and rolling business planning cycle, including strategic objectives, initiatives and targets

Translate agreed strategy into documented plans with owners, milestones, dependencies and resourcing

Cascade strategic priorities into departmental and individual objectives, and follow through to ensure they are understood and acted upon

Drive execution discipline: agendas, decision logs, action registers and follow-up until items are closed

Define and maintain the KPI set that measures whether strategy is being delivered

Produce management, Board and investor reporting packs on a fixed cadence

Maintain the strategic risk register; flag variance and slippage early, with options rather than only problems

Maintain the investor pipeline and CRM; prepare investor updates, data-room materials, pitch decks and due-diligence responses

Support engagement with government agencies and statutory bodies; draft, assemble and track grant and incentive applications end to end

Maintain market intelligence on the global and regional FPGA landscape, including competitors such as AMD, Altera, Lattice, Efinix and Gowin

Conduct market sizing and segmentation using authoritative primary sources

Track the customer, distributor and partner pipeline; prepare briefing notes ahead of the MD's meetings and capture follow-up actions

Maintain the consolidated programme view and Gantt schedules across product development, qualification and commercial milestones

Track deliverables, dependencies and interfaces between workstreams; identify where timelines are drifting out of alignment

About you

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline with a strong academic record

Excellent written and spoken English

Working proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia sufficient to draft and review formal submissions to government agencies

Strong command of Excel and PowerPoint; comfortable structuring data and building clear slides from a blank page

Structured thinker able to break an ambiguous problem into parts and produce a clear written recommendation

Meticulous attention to detail - grant submissions and investor documents are unforgiving of errors

Willingness to chase, follow up and hold others to committed dates without formal authority over them

Self-directed, organized, and comfortable operating in a startup with shifting priorities and no established playbook

Internship or project experience in management consulting, venture capital, corporate development, a government agency, or a technology company is advantageous

About us

Silicon X is a fabless semiconductor company building Southeast Asia's first indigenous FPGA product line. We have designed, taped out and powered on the 1st FPGA chip from Southeast Asia on advanced process node, and we develop our own EDA toolchain, ThunderCAD.

This is a rare opportunity to sit at the center of a deep-tech company at the point where engineering, capital and national industrial policy meet.

Direct daily exposure to the Managing Director and to the full strategic picture of a deep-tech company

A front-row seat to Malaysia's national semiconductor agenda and to the commercialization of a homegrown FPGA product

Competitive salary commensurate with qualifications, plus statutory contributions (EPF, SOCSO, EIS) and annual leave in accordance with Malaysian law

Eligibility for the company's long-term incentive scheme subject to performance and Board approval

Structured mentorship and a clear path toward a Senior Strategy or Corporate Development role as the company scales