Talent & Organization Strategist
About the job
- Experience leading a team, with concrete examples and a thoughtful approach to talent development.
- At least 3 years of practical experience with Taiwan labor regulations, including independently handling labor disputes, labor inspections, and work-rule development.
- Experience experimenting with AI tools at work and assessing their limitations and applicable use cases.
- Curiosity about organizational models involving AI and human collaboration, with a proactive approach to identifying possibilities.
- Ability to work with the organization to advance experiments and applications of AI tools in talent management and to learn and iterate with the team.
- Basic understanding of business models and business acumen.
- Ability to collaborate with C-level executives or business leaders, understand their organizational challenges, and recommend people-focused solutions.
- Upper-intermediate English listening, speaking, reading, and writing, including using English for everyday work and meetings.
- Lead recruitment strategy for key and critical talent in Taiwan, including strategic priority and key roles.
- Continue the Group's talent development program and localize it, identifying high-risk attrition talent and high-potential successors within the organization.
- Improve Taiwan talent-development workflows, assessment methods, and tracking mechanisms.
- Work closely with the HR Lead to improve the Taiwan HR team's management systems and make practices replicable and actionable.
- Work with the Taiwan HR team to implement compliance, comprehensively review relevant Taiwan regulations and policies, and iterate on practices suitable for an AI-enabled organization.
- Assist the HR Lead in providing strategic talent and organizational advice to department heads in Taiwan.
- Participate in organizational restructuring and cross-functional process redesign initiatives, providing a talent and organization perspective.
- Experience building HR-related AI applications or redesigning work processes.
- Experience at a company preparing for an initial public offering and understanding the needs of a rapidly changing organization.
- Experience establishing or improving talent management systems, including human resources information systems, applicant tracking systems, or talent management platforms, and related process automation.
About the company
FunNow is an on-demand lifestyle booking platform offering instant reservations for dining, bars, beauty and wellness, hotels, and nightlife through a mobile app. The app uses geolocation and a patented algorithm to show real-time availability and lets users discover, book, and pay in about 30 seconds, often for experiences within 15 minutes. Merchants manage their own availability and pricing, while FunNow applies AI-driven dynamic pricing to adjust costs based on demand and time to help monetize off-peak hours. It earns commissions on bookings and aims to connect urban consumers and travelers with readily available experiences across Asia, expanding through strategic acquisitions and partnerships.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$31.8M
Headquarters
Taipei, Taiwan
Founded
2015
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Hotai Motor invested $10 million on September 22, 2026, validating IPO readiness.
- Taishin Securities began listing advisory in July 2026, pushing Taiwan public-market preparation.
- FunNow's new partnership with chicTrip targets Japan travelers and AI itinerary booking.
What critics are saying
- Booking apps face brutal price transparency; KKday, Eatigo, and local OTAs compress margins.
- Taiwan listing review runs one to three years, and market windows close fast.
- A failed IPO leaves FunNow dependent on merchant commissions and repeated capital injections.
What makes FUNNOW Group unique
- FunNow spans seven Asian markets, linking restaurants, hotels, spas, and nightlife.
- Its last-minute booking flow wins spontaneous users within fifteen minutes.
- Eatigo and TABLEAPP give FunNow dense restaurant inventory and discounting expertise.
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Flexible Work Hours
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
10%1 year growth
10%2 year growth
10%Hotai Motor has invested $10 million in FunNow, acquiring approximately 10% in preferred shares at $1.10 per share. The investment comes as FunNow, Taiwan's urban leisure booking platform, undergoes listing preparation procedures. FunNow operates across seven Asian markets including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The platform has accumulated over 10 million users and partners with more than 16,000 merchants, with overseas revenue exceeding 50% of total revenue. The company signed a listing advisory contract with Taishin Securities in August 2026, beginning formal preparations for Taiwan's capital market. The listing process typically requires one to three years of guidance and review. For Hotai Motor, Taiwan's largest car dealer and distributor of Toyota, Lexus, and HINO, the investment extends beyond automotive services into urban consumer platforms. The stake provides both potential financial returns and strategic alignment with Hotai's expansion into consumer services, complementing initiatives like their OpenHub car wash platform.
FunNow, the Taiwan-based app that lets users book activities on-demand in five Asian countries, is growing its reach in Southeast Asia through a merger with restaurant booking app Eatigo. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but FunNow CEO TK Chen says it is the largest post-COVID O2O MA deal in Southeast Asia.As part of the deal, Eatigo is now a key shareholder in FunNow Group. Eatigo CEO Michael Cluzel will join FunNow’s board, while Chen will continue serving as president and CEO of the group.Founded in 2015, FunNow has 2.5 million users and utilizes a dynamic pricing strategy that lets businesses on its platform chose to offer different prices to customers based on supply and demand. Since its launching Taiwan, FunNow has expanded to Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. It has grown through a series of acquisitions, concluding Malaysia restaurant booking platform and SaaS provider TABLEAPP and Taiwanese family activity booking platform Niceday. Since its inception, FunNow has raised $22.5 million from investors including the corporate venture arms of PChome, KKday and Wistron.FunNow and Eatigo’s foundersEatigo was founded in Bangkok in 2013 and uses yield management techniques to help 4,000 restaurants book customers during off-peak hours at discounts up to 50% off