Product Operations Manager
Product, Operations
Jakarta, Indonesia
Posted on Aug 29, 2026
- Company: Katalis AI
- Reports to: CEO
- Team managed: Product & Technology team
- Cross-functional scope: Affiliate, Social Media, Account Management, Digital Marketing, and Sales
- Location: Jakarta
- Working model: Remote-first, with scheduled office collaboration days
About Katalis AI
- Katalis AI combines proprietary AI agents with experienced marketing teams to help ecommerce brands grow profitably.
- We currently operate across Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia.
- Our products include:
- LARA: Paid advertising agent
- CARA: Affiliate management agent
- NIKO: Marketplace audit and strategy agent
- Katalis Hub: Centralized reporting, insights, and operational platform
- We are building an operating system that connects ecommerce data, strategic decision-making, and marketing execution.
Role Summary
- Redesign Katalis’s service-delivery system so the company can grow toward without proportional headcount growth.
- Lead the end-to-end development and implementation of Katalis Client Hub as the operating backbone connecting client objectives, performance data, strategic actions, delivery workflows, and management visibility.
- Identify where Katalis’s current operations depend excessively on manual work, fragmented systems, repeated handovers, or individual knowledge.
- Standardize, simplify, automate, integrate, or eliminate work based on its operational and commercial value.
- Ensure technology produces measurable improvements in capacity, quality, retention, profitability, and client experience.
- Prioritize new AI-agent development only when supported by a validated business need and measurable expected impact.
Key ResponsibilitiesProduct Direction and Roadmap
- Gather product needs from the CEO and internal teams.
- Identify recurring business problems and operational pain points.
- Translate business needs into clear product requirements, specifications, user flows, and acceptance criteria.
- Prioritize initiatives based on: Business impact, User needs, Operational urgency, Automation potential, Technical effort, Strategic relevance
- Prevent the Product & Technology team from becoming driven by disconnected or ad hoc feature requests.
Product and Technology Team Leadership
- Translate roadmap priorities into clear projects, responsibilities, and timelines.
- Set weekly priorities and review progress, blockers, and delivery quality.
- Ensure the team understands both the technical requirements and business purpose of each initiative.
- Identify unclear requirements early and reduce avoidable rework.
- Maintain accountability without micromanaging execution.
- Coach team members and conduct regular performance reviews.
- Escalate material delivery risks and decisions to the CEO with recommended solutions.
Product Adoption
- Own internal adoption of new products, features, and workflows.
- Ensure every launch includes: User testing, Documentation, SOPs, Internal demonstrations, Training, Clear ownership, Adoption follow-up
- Monitor whether intended users are actively and correctly using each tool.
- Identify why teams bypass products or return to manual workflows.
- Resolve adoption problems through product improvements, clearer processes, better training, or stronger accountability.
- Define and monitor adoption metrics for priority tools and features.
- Treat successful adoption—not feature completion—as the real definition of a successful launch.
Operational Improvement and Automation
- Study current workflows across: Affiliate, Social Media, Account Management, Digital Marketing, Sales
- Identify bottlenecks, repeated manual work, duplicated effort, inconsistent processes, and unnecessary handovers.
- Determine which activities should be: Standardized, Simplified, Automated, Integrated into Katalis’s products, Removed entirely
- Design workflows that clearly define how technology and people work together.
- Test proposed processes with real users before company-wide implementation.
- Measure whether improvements reduce time, errors, costs, or operational complexity.
- Help Katalis increase the number of clients it can serve without proportional headcount growth.
Feedback and Gap Identification
- Build a structured feedback loop across Affiliate, Social Media, AM, DM, Sales, and Product & Technology.
- Regularly collect feedback on product usability, missing capabilities, process friction, and operational needs.
- Observe how teams actually use products instead of relying only on what they report.
Process Standardization
- Design and maintain standardized systems, sheets, SOPs, templates, and workflows.
- Establish clear owners, inputs, outputs, timelines, and quality standards for critical processes.
- Ensure new processes are practical, scalable, documented, and consistently followed.
- Review existing systems regularly and remove obsolete or duplicated processes.
- Maintain a single source of truth for product and operational documentation.
Training and Enablement
- Run internal product demonstrations and training sessions.
- Create clear onboarding materials for new users and employees.
- Confirm understanding through practical usage—not training attendance alone.
- Build product champions within each function when appropriate.
- Ensure teams are confident using new products without constant support from Product & Technology.
Expected Outcomes
- Katalis can grow its client base without increasing delivery headcount at the same rate.
- Client Hub becomes the central operating system used across the complete client lifecycle.
- Delivery teams can manage more accounts without sacrificing quality or responsiveness.
- Manual reporting, disconnected sheets, duplicated work, and unnecessary handovers decrease materially.
- Critical workflows become standardized and consistently followed across teams.
- Client performance issues, blockers, and retention risks become visible earlier.
- Product and technology priorities are tied to measurable business needs.
- New product development is prioritized based on capacity, retention, quality, profitability, or revenue impact.