Strategy And Operations Office CPTO

Job Description:

Snapshot

You will work closely with ai71s Chief Product & Technology Officer. You own strategic initiatives, run the operating rhythm of product and technology, and work with its leads to turn decisions into shipped work. It is a new role for someone with a strong technical foundation, an operators instincts and an analysts rigour.

About ai71

ai71 builds enterprise-grade AI for the organisations that underpin the real economy: governments, banks, and large enterprises. Were rooted in the Middle East and Africa, where the demands on us are at their highest: sovereignty, on-prem, multi-lingual, and real regulatory weight. Those same demands are arriving everywhere, and what holds up here travels. Our work is grounded in a commitment to deploying AI securely, responsibly, and at scale.

Our flagship product is Ask, our agentic AI platform. It puts AI agents to work on an organisations own knowledge, systems, and workflows: agents that reason through complexity, draw on the organisations collective knowledge, and complete real work rather than just answer questions. Ask is infrastructure agnostic and model agnostic, so it runs inside a customers existing stack and security perimeter, or in sovereign clouds, instead of forcing them onto ours.

Today its deployed across knowledge-heavy functions (legal, finance, HR, procurement) in some of the most regulated environments in the world.

Role Overview

We build Ask in squads: a PM, three or four engineers, a TPgM and a designer, each owning a slice of the product end to end. Alongside them, a forward-deployed team works inside the ministries and enterprises we serve. The Office of the CPTO keeps that whole system pointed at the same outcomes.

You work directly with the CPTO, who leads product, engineering and business operations for Ask and previously led product at Deep Mind and Google Brain. Your job is to make the CPTOs priorities land across the organisation.

The remit has three parts:

• initiatives you own end to end
• the cadence the organisation runs on
• and the day-to-day work of the office.

Expect the mix to shift, sometimes week to week. The shape of the org keeps moving as the product does, and part of your job is helping it move well.

The work gets done through preparation, credibility and follow-through, and it is hands-on: you write the memo, build the model and chase the action yourself.

This is neither an executive-assistant post nor a strategy-only one.

This is not a role for someone who wants the plan settled first. Ask runs inside air-gapped government networks, for buyers betting real operations on us, in a field that resets every few weeks. Much of the job is working out what is true, then getting the organisation to act on it.

Few seats show you product, engineering, deployments, commercial and the board  see this as a tour that leads into a line role: a squad, a new bet, a forward-deployed team or a market expansion.

What youll do

Strategic Initiatives

• Own two or three CPTO-sponsored initiatives at a time, from problem definition to a dated outcome.
• Turn early ideas into decision-ready proposals: the question, the evidence, the options, the trade-offs and a recommendation.
• Take approved proposals into execution. Set the plan, owners and milestones, then run it until a permanent owner takes over.
• Do your own technical homework. Prototype it, query it, script it, and bring a working artefact to the argument instead of a deck.
• Keep a structured read on the field: what the frontier labs and open-source projects shipped, and what we should build, wrap or adopt as a result.

Typical initiatives: a new market or vertical, a build, wrap or adopt decision on part of the platform, pricing and packaging, the plan for a new squad.

Operating…