Chief of Staff
Sits beside you on the things that decide the quarter.
- Priorities, plans and follow-through
- Chasing accountability across the team
- Process documentation and SOPs
- Reporting that tells you something
Australia and Southeast Asia
Build your team where the talent is.
Two ways in. Pick the one that sounds like your problem — or book a call and we'll work it out together.
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A Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant or operations hire with ten years behind them, working your hours. Interviewed by us, shortlist in three weeks.
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Organisational design, go-to-market and the commercial foundations that hold past launch. Built on a decade operating across Sydney, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
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Hiring
Hire a Chief of Staff or Executive Assistant with 10+ years' experience
- Interviewed by us at length before you see anyone
- Full time with one business, working your hours
- Shortlist in three weeks, not three months
- If the match doesn't hold, we run the search again
Working with
The roles
Three hires, one standard.
Senior enough to question the plan, not just work the list.
Executive Assistant
Takes the week back off you, starting with the calendar.
- Inbox triage, drafting and follow-up
- Calendar and travel
- Meeting prep, agendas and minutes
- Expenses and reconciliation
Operations
Runs the back office so it stops running you.
- Invoicing, AP and AR
- Xero and MYOB reconciliation
- CRM hygiene and pipeline reporting
- Supplier and contractor coordination
How it works
Most remote roles fail on structure, not on talent.
So the role gets designed before anyone goes looking for a person to fill it.
01
Definethe problem
We open with what is actually breaking — the work piling up, the decisions waiting on you, what slips when you travel. Then the role gets written against that, in outcomes rather than duties. If a hire isn't the answer, we say so.
02
Buildthe structure
Hours of overlap with your state, who they report to, which tools they live in, what they own at month one versus month six. This is the step almost everyone skips, and it decides whether the placement holds.
03
Placethe right person
We source, screen and interview every candidate ourselves, then send you a short list of people we have spoken to at length. If the match doesn't hold, we run the search again.
How we hire
A search firm, not a database.
Every shortlist is built from scratch against your role, by the person who hands over to you at the end.
You deal with one person
The first conversation, the role design, the interviews and the handover are all run by the same senior recruiter. Nobody is inserted between you and the work.
No candidate pools
We don't resell a bench. Each search is run fresh, which is why the shortlist is a handful of names rather than forty.
We recruit across Southeast Asia
Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta — where a large share of the world's back office has been run for twenty years. Every candidate is assessed individually, in conversation.
Questions
The things people ask.
What does it cost?
One flat monthly fee per hire, with no placement fee and no percentage of salary. We'll give you the number on the first call, along with exactly what it covers. If you want to see what an Australian hire actually costs you first, run the numbers here.
How long until I meet someone?
A shortlist in about three weeks. The first week is spent designing the role rather than searching, which is why the rest moves quickly.
Where are they based, and what hours do they work?
Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. Manila and KL run two hours behind AEST, so an Australian client gets a genuinely shared working day. For US clients, working American hours is long-established practice across the region.
Do I employ them directly?
No. They're engaged through Alamora, so we handle the pay, the compliance and the employment relationship. No payroll, superannuation or foreign entity on your side.
What happens if it doesn't work out?
We run the search again, with no second fee. That holds for the life of the engagement, not just a probation window.
Are these virtual assistants?
No. A VA is usually junior, task-focused and often shared between several clients. These are people with ten years behind them, working full time with one business, senior enough to push back on you.
Also from Alamora
Building there, not just hiring there?
If the plan is a team on the ground, a market you haven't sold into, or an operation that has to run without you in the room — that's a different conversation. Organisational design, go-to-market and the commercial foundations that hold past launch.
Expand into Southeast Asia- Working out whether the opportunity is real
- What the team needs to look like, and in what order
- How you get positioned, priced and introduced in-market
- A decade operating across Sydney, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
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Who you're working with
Ramzy Alamudi
I've watched a lot of Australian businesses look north with a sound plan and get the first few hires wrong. It stopped looking like bad luck and started looking like a gap — so I went and filled it.
A decade building teams and entering markets across Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Read the full story →Thirty minutes. No deck.
We'll talk through what's consuming your week and whether a hire is the right answer. If a process change would fix it instead, we'll tell you that.