Careers
Do work the client can feel
Join a small team building systems that businesses use every day. The work is close to the problem, owned end to end, and judged by whether it makes the business run better.
Our founder spent more than five years building systems used across Southeast Asia, supporting millions in monthly Gross Merchandise Value (GMV). Here, that standard meets a team small enough for your work to matter immediately.
Why join Venari
Build for real businesses
Your work goes into the daily operations of Malaysian SMEs. You see who uses it, what breaks, and what changes after it ships.
Stay close to the decision
Work directly with the people making product and business decisions. Context moves quickly and good ideas have a short path to production.
Own the whole problem
See the work from discovery and architecture through delivery, client feedback, and monitoring.
How we work
Understand before building
Every project starts with a workflow review. We do not write code before the problem is clear.
Own the outcome
Work across the system when the problem requires it, from interface and data to integration and deployment.
Measure what changed
Shipping matters only when the system improves how the work gets done.
How we set you up
Every role is paid
Internships included. Your time and contribution are work, and we treat them that way.
Hybrid out of PJ
Work from our Petaling Jaya office and remotely, with the rhythm agreed by the team.
Modern tools, paid for
Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and modern hardware are provided. Use them with judgement and understand what you ship.
Direct feedback
Work beside the people deciding what gets built. Questions get answered and feedback reaches the work quickly.
How hiring goes
Four conversations, usually two to three weeks
Each step should give both sides enough evidence to make a clear decision.
01
Apply
Send your CV and a short note on why this role, to hello@venari.solutions. Two paragraphs is enough. We read every application.
02
Founder call
A 30 to 45 minute call with a founder about your background, the role, and how the team works.
03
Take-home
A paid, scoped task that mirrors real work and takes about four to six hours. We discuss your judgement, not only the output.
04
Final
Meet the team, review the task together, and close any open questions. We decide within five working days.
Open roles
Product Designer
Own the design of every screen we ship: the system an admin sits in all day, the dashboard an owner checks between meetings, the page that made them call us in the first place. Every one of them is doing a job, and none of them is the small one.
About the role
We build custom systems and SaaS for Malaysian businesses. The people who use what we ship are not designers, developers, or early adopters. They are an admin executive with 40 browser tabs open, a sales coordinator on a shared laptop, an owner checking numbers on his phone between meetings. If the screen is harder than WhatsApp and Excel, they go back to WhatsApp and Excel, and the project failed no matter how good it looked. That constraint is the job. You would be the first designer here, working directly with the founder, with no design committee to get through and no brand guidelines to inherit.
What you'll do
- Design end-to-end flows for custom CRMs, internal tools, our own SaaS, and the pages that sell them
- Sit in on discovery calls and watch how the work actually gets done today, before drawing anything
- Turn a messy real-world process into screens a non-technical person can finish without training
- Build and hold the design system: components, states, empty states, error states
- Hand off in a way engineers can build straight from, and stay in the loop until it ships
What we're looking for
- A portfolio with software people use for work in it, not only concept pieces. We want to see a flow you simplified and why
- Fluent in Figma, including components, variants, and auto layout that survives a handoff
- You design the unglamorous states. Empty, loading, error, permission denied, 300 rows
- Comfortable talking to non-technical users directly and reading what they do rather than what they say
- Enough front-end literacy to know what is cheap to build and what is expensive
- Uses AI daily as part of the craft, for exploration, copy drafts, and asset work. It speeds up the boring half, it does not make the decisions
Nice to have
- Shipped a design system that outlived your involvement
- Can build a working prototype in code
- Worked with Malaysian or Southeast Asian SMEs before
- Reads and writes Mandarin, a lot of our users do
What you get
- Direct line to the founder. You bring an opinion, we argue it out, it ships that week
- Real users on the phone within your first month, not a research summary someone else wrote
- First designer here, so the design system, the process, and the bar are yours to set
- Small and bootstrapped, so the pay is honest rather than headline-grabbing, and the ownership is real
- You will watch someone use what you drew to do their actual job, which most designers never get
Product Designer Intern
Learn product design on systems people are paid to use: the CRM an admin sits in all day, the dashboard an owner checks between meetings. You draw it, we build it, someone uses it to do their actual job within weeks.
About the role
We build custom systems and SaaS for Malaysian businesses. The people who use what we ship are not designers or early adopters. They are an admin executive with 40 browser tabs open, a sales coordinator on a shared laptop, an owner checking numbers on his phone. If the screen is harder than WhatsApp and Excel, they go back to WhatsApp and Excel. As an intern here you sit next to the founder, you get real screens with real deadlines, and nothing you draw is a throwaway exercise.
What you'll do
- Redraw screens users struggle with, and defend why your version is easier to finish
- Build components and states in Figma: empty, loading, error, permission denied, 300 rows
- Sit in on discovery and client calls, and write down how the work actually gets done today
- Prepare handoff files engineers can build straight from, then check the built screen against them
- Design marketing pages, decks, and social assets when the week calls for it
What we're looking for
- Pursuing a degree or diploma in design, HCI, or a related field, or a self-taught portfolio that shows the same work
- Fluent in Figma: components, variants, auto layout
- A portfolio with at least one full flow, not only single screens. We want to see what you removed and why
- Comfortable in English and Mandarin. A lot of our users read Chinese first
- Uses AI daily for exploration, copy drafts, and asset work. It speeds up the boring half, it does not make the decisions
- Available for at least 3 months, minimum 3 days a week, hybrid out of Petaling Jaya
Nice to have
- Can build a clickable prototype, in Figma or in code
- Basic HTML and CSS, enough to read a component and know what is cheap to change
- Motion, illustration, or short-form video editing
What you'll learn
- How to sit in front of a non-technical user and read what they do, not what they say
- How a messy real process becomes a screen someone can finish without training
- The unglamorous states, which is where most of real product design lives
- How a design survives handoff, and what breaks when it does not
- Direct feedback from the founder in the same week, not a review cycle
Sales and Marketing Executive
Bring the conversations in. You find Malaysian SME owners still running the business on WhatsApp groups and spreadsheets, open the conversation, sit in on discovery, and keep the follow-up alive until the deal closes or dies for a clear reason.
About the role
We build custom systems and SaaS for Malaysian businesses. So far the founder has been doing the selling, which is the bottleneck: the pipeline only moves on the days he is not building. This role takes that over. Our buyer is an owner who decides over kopi, not in a boardroom, and who has already been quoted by three other shops. You will not be reading a script. You will be learning the business well enough to tell an owner honestly whether we are the right shop for his problem.
What you'll do
- Own outbound: build the target list, open conversations on WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and in person
- Run first calls, qualify hard, and pass on the deals that are not a fit
- Sit in on discovery with the founder and turn what you hear into the proposal
- Keep every lead moving with disciplined follow-up. Most deals here are won on the fourth message
- Run the marketing that feeds the pipeline: events, referral partners, case studies, the content calendar
- Report what is actually working, with numbers rather than a feeling
What we're looking for
- Two or more years selling B2B services or software to Malaysian SMEs, or a track record that shows the same
- Fluent in English and Mandarin. Bahasa Malaysia is a real advantage, our buyers switch mid-sentence
- Comfortable being the first message in a stranger's WhatsApp, and comfortable being left on read
- You can hold a conversation about how a business runs without pretending to be an engineer
- Organised follow-up. If a lead goes cold because nobody messaged, that is on this role
- Uses AI daily for research, drafts, and call prep. It writes the first version, you write the one that gets sent
Nice to have
- Sold ERP, CRM, POS, or accounting software before
- An existing network among Malaysian SME owners or trade associations
- Comfortable on camera and on stage at a small event
- Has run paid social or SEO and knows what a lead actually costs
What you get
- A short line to the decision. You bring a deal shape, we argue it out, you quote that week
- Real product to sell: systems already running inside client businesses, not a roadmap
- Pricing you can defend, because you are in the room when it is set
- Small and bootstrapped, so the base is honest rather than headline-grabbing, and what you build is yours
- No lead-gen agency between you and the buyer. You will know exactly why each deal closed
Sales and Marketing Intern
Learn how a deal actually gets made, from the first cold message to the signed proposal. You do the research, draft the outreach, sit in on real calls, and keep the content going out.
About the role
We build custom systems and SaaS for Malaysian businesses, and the founder is still the one selling. That means an intern here is not tidying a CRM for someone else. You are in the live pipeline: the list you build gets messaged, the message you draft gets sent, the call you sit in on is a real business deciding whether to spend real money on us. Nothing here is a simulation, and nothing here is a coffee run.
What you'll do
- Research target businesses and build the outbound list, with a reason attached to every name
- Draft outreach and follow-up messages for WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and email
- Sit in on discovery calls, take the notes, and write the recap the founder sends back
- Help produce content: case studies, social posts, and the decks we bring into meetings
- Keep the pipeline tidy, so nothing goes cold because nobody looked
What we're looking for
- Pursuing a degree or diploma in business, marketing, communications, or a related field
- Fluent in English and Mandarin, written and spoken. Bahasa Malaysia is a plus
- You can write a message that sounds like a person, not like a template
- Organised, and honest early when something has slipped
- Uses AI daily for research and first drafts. It writes the first version, you write the one that gets sent
- Available for at least 3 months, minimum 3 days a week, hybrid out of Petaling Jaya
Nice to have
- Ran a club, a side hustle, or a page where you had to get strangers to reply
- Basic Canva or CapCut
- Comfortable on camera
What you'll learn
- How a Malaysian SME owner actually decides, and what makes him stop reading
- How to qualify: which deals to chase, and which to let go early
- How a proposal is put together, and why the price is the price
- What follow-up discipline looks like when nobody is chasing you
- Direct feedback from the founder in the same week, not a review cycle
Digital Marketing Partner
We need help creating more content. We're looking for a long-term freelance partner to manage our English and Mandarin content. We'll give you a clear brief and trust you to get the work done. Your content will help Malaysian business owners decide how to improve their work.
About the role
We're a small, self-funded (bootstrapped) team that builds custom systems and SaaS for Malaysian businesses. You'll write for business owners who want clear and useful information.
What you'll do
- Plan and publish content in English and Mandarin on Xiaohongshu, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok
- Write blog posts and case studies in both languages for Malaysian SME owners
- Research keywords, prepare content briefs, and improve on-page SEO
- Manage the content calendar and report what works
What we're looking for
- Experience writing Mandarin for Malaysian Chinese readers. You understand how local writing differs from writing used in mainland China
- Strong English writing. About half of the work is in English, and it should read as naturally as your Mandarin
- Able to work on your own. You plan, draft, publish, and ask for help when needed
- Able to meet deadlines. We need someone we can rely on for long-term work
- Use AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to work faster, but make sure the final writing is your own and sounds natural
Nice to have
- Experience with Canva or Figma
- Able to edit short videos
- Comfortable appearing on camera
Benefits
- Regular long-term work instead of one-off jobs
- Payment on time every month, with the work agreed before you start
- We're bootstrapped, so the budget is small, but the work is steady and the pay can grow with the business
- Earn commission when your content brings in a client, plus a bonus in good months. Your monthly pay will grow as our revenue grows
- Work directly with a founder who gives clear briefs and does not micromanage
- Quick decisions with no long approval process
No role fits?
Good work is worth seeing
If you have shipped something you are proud of, send it with two short paragraphs about you and the work you want to do.
Email the teamCommon questions
Common questions
Yes. Every role at Venari is paid, full time and internship alike. We do not run on the goodwill of students.
Partly, on full-time roles. We are hybrid out of Petaling Jaya with the rhythm agreed by the team, and the more senior the role, the more flexibility there is. Internships are the exception and spend at least part of the week in the office.
For full-time roles we consider it case by case, and the bar is high. Not currently for internships.
Often, but not guaranteed. We have offered full-time roles to interns who shipped strongly and wanted to stay. We are honest if the fit is not there.
Use them daily. We pay for Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini. We expect you to ship faster with AI, not to paste output you do not understand. We hire people who use AI as leverage, not as a crutch.
About two to three weeks. We commit to a decision within five working days of the final round.