Talent

The same rule applies to hiring.

A product does not carry the VALENS LAB name until four things are printed on it. A role is not posted until four things are stated in it.

Six colleagues in an open plan Kuala Lumpur office talking around a shared desk, under a plum wall panel with the VALENS LAB wordmark in brass letters.

Hiring standard

Four things stated in every role we post

01

The work itself

The tasks you will actually do, listed. Not a list of adjectives about the kind of person we want.

02

Reporting and decision rights

Who you report to, and which decisions are yours to make without asking. Stated before you apply, not discovered at offer stage.

03

The band

The salary range for the role. The number, never the adjective. Same rule we apply to a formula.

04

The process

How many stages, what happens in each one, and how long we take to come back to you.

The company

What exists today

One brandSHE-PAP, in production
Three categoriesIn build, not announced
Under ten peopleAcross the whole operation
Kuala LumpurLaboratory and office

That is the whole picture. It is a small operation with a standard already written and most of the people not yet hired, which is why every role below states the decision rights and the band before you apply rather than after. How the work is separated once it is inside the house is set out in how we work.

Open roles

Three roles are open.

Each one is stated the same way. If any of the four is missing from a posting, the posting is not ready and we do not publish it.

Commercial

Business Development

You will own where the portfolio is sold and what it earns there.

01  The work
Open and hold distribution for the brands in the house. Today that is Shopee and TikTok Shop in Malaysia, and the groundwork for Indonesia. Negotiate terms with marketplaces, distributors and retail buyers. You own the channel numbers: sell through, margin after platform fees, stock cover.
  • Marketplace and distributor negotiation
  • Channel P&L, not just top line
  • Malaysia now, Indonesia next

By month twelve: One new channel open and profitable after fees, and the Indonesia entry route documented well enough to be executed or rejected on evidence.

02  Reporting and decision rights
You report to the founder. You hold pricing within an agreed floor and you sign channel terms up to an agreed value. Above that, one conversation, not a committee.
03  The band
  • RM 4,000 to RM 6,000 monthly grossfor the Malaysia channel scope
  • RM 6,000 to RM 8,500 monthly grossif you carry the Indonesia entry as well

Say which one you are applying for.

04  The process
Written reply within five working days. One conversation, forty five minutes. One paid task on real work, not a case study. Offer with the band already stated.
Apply · Business Development

Category

Product Researcher

You will decide what the house is allowed to claim.

01  The work
Turn a category brief into a product concept that survives its own label. Read the ingredient literature. Map what competitors actually declare on pack against what they claim in their copy. Write the brief formulation builds from. Every claim you propose has to clear the four substantiation gates before it reaches a pack, so the work sits upstream of marketing rather than downstream of it.
  • Ingredient and literature review
  • Competitor declaration mapping
  • Writes the brief, owns the claim

By month twelve: Two category briefs written and defended, and a claim library where every entry cites the evidence behind it.

02  Reporting and decision rights
You report to the founder. You hold the claim. If you will not sign a claim, it does not go on the pack, and that is not negotiable by commercial pressure.
03  The band
RM 4,500 to RM 6,500 monthly gross.
04  The process
Written reply within five working days. One conversation, forty five minutes. One paid task on real work, not a case study. Offer with the band already stated.
Apply · Product Researcher

Laboratory

Chemist

You will own the formulation record for everything the house ships.

01  The work
Take a brief to a finished formulation that can be made the same way every time. Bench work in Kuala Lumpur, stability, in-process control, and the records that follow a batch to release. You are the first chemist here, so you are writing the bench practice rather than inheriting it.
  • Formulation and stability
  • In-process control and batch records
  • Documentation that survives an audit

By month twelve: SHE-PAP has a complete published substantiation record with your name on the method, and a second category has moved from brief to pilot batch.

02  Reporting and decision rights
You report to the founder. You hold the decision to release or hold a batch, and nobody overrides it. Formulation direction is yours. Launch dates are not.
03  The band
  • RM 5,500 to RM 8,000 monthly grossfor the formulation and records scope
  • RM 8,000 to RM 11,000 monthly grossif you also carry regulatory submission

Say which one you are applying for.

04  The process
Written reply within five working days. One conversation, forty five minutes. One paid task on real work, not a case study. Offer with the band already stated.
Apply · Chemist

None of these three?

The register stays open. Send the discipline you work in and one thing you have shipped. When a role opens in that discipline, we write to the register first.

Send your discipline

Every role above states the band. Every product we ship prints the formula. Same rule, different page.

The standard people are hired to hold is published in full.

Read the standard See how we work