Chief of Staff to the CEO

About us

Jabu builds cash management and payments infrastructure for Southern Africa. Our JabuSafe smart safe counts and verifies cash on a merchant's premises and credits their bank account instantly. Five markets - Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa - backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global and Afore.

The job

Run the operating system of a five-country fintech and multiply the CEO. Own the operating rhythm (board, management meetings, investor updates), drive cross-country programs that don't fit in any one country team (banking relationships, licensing, audits, supplier transitions), act as the CEO's filter and force multiplier, own special projects end to end, and build the connective tissue across five markets.

Not a PA role: you will not manage diaries, you will manage outcomes.

Path: run a country, a business line, or the company.

Requirements

5-10 years in consulting, operations, investing, or as a founder or early operator. You have run projects with real consequences in markets where infrastructure doesn't always cooperate. You write clearly and think in numbers. You have judgment about people. Based in or willing to relocate to Cape Town.

What we offer

Base salary by experience, performance bonus, options package.

How to apply

Send your CV and one page: the three things you would take off the CEO's plate in your first 90 days, and how you would know they are genuinely off it. One page only. We are testing how you think.