How Anton Chandra went from pursuing programming to running Gojek’s DesignOps division. — It’s hard to believe that Anton Chandra from our DesignOps team fell into design by accident. Born and raised in Bandung, Indonesia, Anton grew up playing video games and became interested in how they were built as he matured. …

Meet Ralph Swie Tjhiang Go, our Corporate Recruitment Lead who journeyed back to Indonesia. — Where Ralph Swie Tjhiang Go grew up, people seldom left. Born to an Indonesian father and a Dutch mother, Ralph and his two siblings were born and raised in Emmeloord — a tiny, desolate farming town in the north of Holland. Some of their chores included tending to the land…

From a research intern to Gojek’s Senior VP & Global Head of Research & Insights, Sunita Venkataraman talks about leading the team that champions the voice of the customer. — Travel has never been a foreign concept for Sunita Venkataraman. With a father who worked as a government official in India, Sunita grew up calling cities like Cochin, Calcutta, and Delhi home. The moves posed some difficulties in maintaining long-lasting friendships, but they cultivated in her a strong ability to…

How Anuradha Lipare, our Global Head of Data Security & Privacy, allowed her love of computers to act as her North Star. — Anuradha Lipare had always known she wanted to work in technology. Born in India to parents who ushered her towards the banking sector, she reluctantly spent her high school years studying Commerce to appease their wishes. “All the while, I thought: This is exactly the opposite of what I want…

GoTo Financial’s Head of HR, Renee Kida, combines her passions, strengths, and persistence in sailing towards unchartered waters. — The two things that utterly captivated Renee Kida since she was a child, were human connection and Asian culture. As a native of Oakland, California, she was no stranger to living amongst an array of ethnicities. Innately curious about humans and their stories, she was the person her friends would…

Hiring lessons from the key players who scaled Indonesia’s First Decacorn Company. — It’s hard to imagine that merely six years ago, Gojek was still finding its footing. Our various streams were grappling with massive growth spurts, building solid foundations to scale their businesses, and assembling teams to get the job done — all with no recruiting process in place. “Everyone was the…

A content writer’s quest in editing 3300+ Job Descriptions. — A job description (JD) is arguably the most essential component of a hiring process; it not only gets the ball rolling, but rolling in the right direction. …

How our Group Head of Sustainability, Tanah Sullivan, has turned her childhood mission into a nation-wide gain. — Before she was nineteen, Tanah Sullivan had already called five countries home. With a Canadian father and an Indonesian mother, Tanah and her brother grew up in environments grounded in belief systems and walks of life that were different from their own. During their family visits to her mother’s hometown…

Takeaways from the illustrious career of Valerie Wagoner — our Chief Growth Officer for GoPay. — It was on a trip to Brazil when she was sixteen years old, that our Chief Growth Officer for GoPay, Valerie Wagoner, had her first glimpse of the world of emerging markets. …