Overview
Founding Strategy & Operations Lead Jobs in Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines at Reach Labs
Title: Founding Strategy & Operations Lead
Company: Reach Labs
Location: Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines
ABOUT REACH LABS
Reach Labs’ mission is to help people and businesses prosper by accelerating the diffusion of intelligence in the developing world. We do this by solving last-mile problems in markets Silicon Valley struggles to enter, starting with the Philippines.
We’re building the agent-native financial system for businesses. Our thesis is simple: AI will radically alter how businesses run their finances. New systems will be global, API-driven, intelligent and agentic, rather than clunky local infra operating on a monolithic stack and dependent on a legacy IT team.
If we’re successful, founders turn their passions into economic engines, as AI handles the hard parts of starting and managing a business. Existing businesses crack global markets and grow faster. They generate jobs and profits that create a multiplier effect in the economy. Customers, employees, and owners prosper together. 1M households have $1M+ in net worth (from less than 70k households today), which gets reinvested into the economy to create even more companies and jobs.
WHY JOIN?
- The Company: We’re the only Silicon Valley AI company exclusively focused on building for the Philippines. Our founders & advisors come from Google, Waymo, Meta, and Coinbase.
- The Mission: Our mission is to help businesses prosper with AI. Our vision is to see the Autonomous Corporation come to life: every business becomes a wealth creation machine that uses agents and global financial infrastructure to unleash Jevons Paradox in their industries.
- Problem Space: We’re working on a roadmap that climbs the 3 levels of financial autonomy. https://reachlabs.com/manila-before-manhattan
- Team & Culture: Make a difference working with an ambitious team that moves fast and is tackling the hardest problems that even the largest conglomerates and the government have failed to solve. If you think your company is moving too slow in adopting AI, this is the role for you.
- Upside: competitive salary, founding team equity, a fast-track career path to leadership opportunities.
We’re going after a $350B market that’s dominated by incumbents, yet underserves its most important customers. We're David. Our slingshot is speed and compute. Our adversaries are Goliaths with mainframes, bureaucracy, and office politics.
THE ROLE
You’ll be the strategy & operational co-pilot to the CEO. You'll turn strategy into execution across licensing, fundraising, partnerships, and go-to-market. As part of the founding team, this means you're leading meetings with design partners in the morning, interviewing job candidates in the afternoon, doing demand generation work the following day, and meeting investors the next. Nothing is beneath you, and nothing is above you.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Strategic analysis: Conduct competitive intelligence, market sizing, and regulatory landscape analysis to inform product and business decisions
- Regulatory: Lead the regulatory engagement strategy, coordinate with legal counsel on compliance architecture, and manage the regulatory relationships
- Partnerships: Source and negotiate relationships with design partners in our target segment
- Operations design: Stand up the company’s operational backbone — incorporation, banking, accounting, HR, and vendor management — from scratch
- Go-to-market: Develop the demand gen and sales playbook for target accounts; define ICP, outbound strategy, and early customer pipeline
- Fundraising support: Build and maintain investor data rooms, financial models, and pitch materials; manage investor pipeline and follow-up
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years in management consulting (MBB preferred), investment banking, venture capital, or fintech strategy/operations
- Deep familiarity with the Philippine business environment — you know how BSP licensing works, how to navigate government agencies, and how business gets done in Manila
- Experience building something from zero: a startup, a new business line, a market entry — something where you had to figure out everything yourself
- Financial modeling fluency — you can build a bottoms-up revenue model, a unit economics framework, or a fundraising scenario analysis without hand-holding
- Exceptional written communication in English — you’ll be drafting investor memos, regulatory submissions, and partnership proposals
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed — pre-seed means priorities shift weekly and you need to move without perfect information
COMPENSATION
Competitive base salary + meaningful founding equity. The equity component reflects the pre-seed stage: you’re taking a real bet, and the upside is structured accordingly.
