CEO Special Assistant

Job Description

### **CEO Special Assistant (Founder’s Apprentice / Strategy & Operations)**
**Location:** Singapore (Hybrid)
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**Level:** Fresh Grad / Early-Career (0–8 years)
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**Languages:** English + Mandarin (Both Required)
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**Visas:** EP, PR, Citizen
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**Reports To:** CEO

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### **About Immortal Dragon (不朽真龙)**

Immortal Dragon is an early-stage venture fund and incubator based in Singapore. Founded in 2024, we invest in and build frontier innovations in **AI for health, biotechnology, and Decentralized Science (DeSci)**.
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Our mission is bold and simple: **Declare War on Death.**
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We are:
- **A small, elite team (1–10 people)**
- **Working at the cutting edge of longevity, AI, and healthspan innovation**
- **Deep-thinking, high-performance, and mission-obsessed**

If you want to work directly with founders on frontier problems, this is the place.

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### **The Role: CEO Special Assistant (A Founder’s Right Hand, Not an Admin)**

This is **not** a typical administrative job. This is a **Founder’s Apprentice** role—created for someone smart, ambitious, and fast-learning who wants to be involved in:

- How decisions are made
- How a venture fund and incubator operate
- How new initiatives start
- How strategy gets executed
- How a company is actually built

You will work directly with the CEO and co-founders across strategy, operations, research, execution, and special projects.

**Administrative tasks do exist**, but only as **necessary foundations** that allow you to:

- Sit in important meetings
- Drive strategic work end-to-end
- Take ownership of mini-projects
- Learn how high-level decisions are made
- Build toward leading your own initiatives in the future

We are explicitly designing this role as a **leadership-development pipeline**.

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### **Mission of the Role**

Enable the CEO and co-founders to operate at peak strategic bandwidth while **developing into a future operator, investor, or leader** within the organization.

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### **What You Will Actually Do (Strategic First, Admin as Enabler)**

1. #### **Strategic & Operational Enablement (Core Focus)**
- Join founder meetings across investment, operations, partnerships, and R&D.
- Distill discussions into insights, decisions, and action plans.
- Research new areas quickly (AI, biotech, DeSci, markets, ecosystems).
- Identify blind spots, bring fresh perspectives, challenge assumptions.
- Keep cross-functional projects moving—end-to-end ownership.

**Admin support (scheduling, logistics, note-taking) sits under this bucket—not as “chores,” but as your ticket into all high-level rooms.**

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2. #### **Strategic Projects & Business Initiatives**
Depending on your capability, you may:
- Lead specific research or strategic workstreams
- Run internal operational improvements
- Manage early investment theses
- Support dealflow, diligence, or portfolio work
- Drive community or ecosystem-building initiatives
- Oversee small business experiments or special projects

This role can grow into **Chief of Staff**, **Investment Associate**, or **New Venture Lead**—depending on your trajectory.

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3. #### **Founder Infrastructure, Finance, and Legal Coordination**
You will help the founders keep the engine running smoothly by:
- Coordinating with finance teams on planning and paperwork
- Handling essential bank, compliance, and operational documentation
- Supporting legal review and execution processes
- Tracking commitments and deadlines across multiple stakeholders

These processes don’t define the role—but they _enable_ you to operate as a trusted extension of the founders.

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4. #### **Office, Operations & Occasional Ground Support**
- Manage office administration or renovation projects
- Oversee key vendors and infrastructure
- Step in for important operational needs when required

These tasks are **not the main job**, but part of operating in an early-stage environment where everyone does what is needed to win.

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### **Who We’re Looking For (High-Agency, High-IQ Builder)**

1. #### **Exceptional Intelligence & Learning Speed (Must-Have)**
You must be able to pick up complex topics quickly—across AI, biotech, operations, finance, and whatever else emerges.

Evidence may include:
- Top performance in quantitative/scientific fields
- Demonstrated use of AI tools
- Personal or academic projects requiring deep learning
- Strong analytical writing or thinking

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2. #### **Extreme Ownership & Reliability**

We need someone who:
- Anticipates needs
- Executes fast
- Handles ambiguity
- Produces high-quality work without reminders
- Takes responsibility for outcomes

This role requires **responsiveness and occasional cross-timezone coordination**.

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3. #### **Fluent Bilingual Communication (English + Mandarin)**

You must be able to communicate professionally, clearly, and diplomatically across both languages.

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4. #### **Singapore-Based, Hybrid Work, Global Flexibility**
- In Singapore
- Hybrid schedule (remote-first, in-office as needed)
- Comfortable with occasional business travel

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5. #### **Bonus Skills**
- Familiarity with Google Suite / Office / Notion
- Driver’s license is a plus

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## **Why This Role Is Life-Changing for the Right Person**

#### ⭐ **1. You work directly with founders on the frontier of longevity, biotech & AI.**

You’ll see how decisions are made, how investments are evaluated, and how strategic initiatives are built.

#### ⭐ **2. You’ll compress years of learning into months.**

This is the equivalent of: **Strategy + Ops + Chief of Staff + VC + Entrepreneur apprenticeship—all in one.** A “3 months = 5 years of growth” environment.

#### ⭐ **3. You’ll gain autonomy early.**

Founders will trust you with real responsibilities, meaningful decisions, and visible work from day one.

#### ⭐ **4. You join a mission with global relevance.**

Working in healthspan, longevity, and AI means your work can contribute to meaningful progress for humanity.

#### ⭐ **5. You build a career trajectory few roles can offer.**
Depending on your strengths, you can graduate into:
- Chief of Staff
- Strategy Lead
- Investment Associate
- Venture Builder / New Initiative Lead
- Or even Founder of a future incubated company

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If you want a role that is challenging, fast-paced, intellectually demanding, and deeply meaningful—and you want to learn directly from founders in a frontier field—this might be your next big step.