Chief of Staff
$150,000–$225,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead the founders in scaling operations by owning pressing challenges across strategy, recruiting, finance, sales, and partnerships. Build company-wide processes, drive recruiting from sourcing to onboarding, and prepare materials for board meetings and investors. Coordinate complex customer deployments, evaluate strategic opportunities, and manage financial models and budgets. Transform founder discussions into clear plans with owners and timelines while identifying and resolving blockers before they become critical issues. You will spend your days balancing high-level strategy with detailed execution, moving quickly across projects without established playbooks. Report directly to co-founder and CEO Carl Peterson in a full-time, in-person role in downtown San Francisco, with relocation support and visa sponsorship available.
Required Qualifications
- Exceptional organization and project-management ability
- Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem-solving
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication
- Ability to quickly understand technical products and communicate effectively with engineers, customers, and investors
- Strong judgment about prioritization, tradeoffs, and when to escalate an issue
- Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams without losing track of details
- Comfort working with financial models, business analyses, and quantitative information
- Strong work ethic and the ability to independently push a project from an ambiguous starting point through 100% completion under tight deadlines
- Attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate, polished work without significant oversight
- Strong ownership over outcomes rather than only assigned tasks
- Ability to create structure where no established process, playbook, or obvious owner exists
- Willingness to work across strategic projects and highly detailed operational execution
- Ability to communicate directly and professionally with customers, candidates, investors, vendors, and other external stakeholders
- Enough technical curiosity to understand our product, industry, and customers
Desired Qualifications
- Experience at a top consulting firm such as McKinsey, Bain, or BCG; in investment banking, private equity, or another demanding analytical environment; or in an operating role at a high-growth technology company
- Experience working directly with founders, executives, or senior clients
- Experience managing cross-functional projects involving technical and nontechnical teams
- Strong academic performance and demonstrated quantitative ability
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, developer tools, enterprise software, or another technical industry
- Experience at an early-stage startup or evidence that you can operate effectively without established processes or large support teams
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