Chief of Staff
About the role
We’re building humanoid robots that work in homes, handling chores and tasks to give people more time. This is challenging work, but we’re at a stage where solving the hard problems means focusing on scaling and delivering real-world solutions. NEO is our flagship product - a home robot designed to move, learn, and operate safely alongside families. We’ve been at this since 2014 and are now ready to bring our flagship product to market.
About the team
The Executive team sets the direction, pace, priorities, and strategy of 1X. The Chief of Staff sits at the center of this team, ensuring the highest-leverage work gets the CEO's time and the rest of the business stays aligned around it. Your role is to serve as the operating partner to the CEO and the connective tissue across the leadership team. You will drive high-quality decisions, align the leadership team, and ensure initiatives ship successfully.
Key outcomes
- High-quality decisions are made faster because information is synthesized, tradeoffs are clear, and recommendations are ready.
- The leadership team executes toward the same priorities with fewer conflicting initiatives.
- Company initiatives that span engineering, operations, product, finance, and people actually ship.
- Leadership meetings become decision forums instead of status updates, and conflict gets resolved earlier.
- OKRs, planning cadence, metrics, reviews, and communication rhythms become repeatable systems.
Minimum requirements
- 6+ years in fast-moving operator roles: Chief of Staff, strategy & operations, top-tier consulting, investing paired with operating, or a founding role.
- Demonstrated track record of driving cross-functional initiatives to completion in environments with real technical and operational complexity.
- Experience running planning and prioritization processes (OKRs, quarterly planning, or equivalent) that leadership actually adopted.
- Exceptional written communication. Can produce a decision memo, a board update, or an all-hands narrative on short notice.
- Willing and able to work in-person at our San Carlos office.
Preferred skills
- Prior Chief of Staff experience reporting directly to a founder or CEO of a scaling hardware, robotics, AI, or deep-tech company.
- Background at a top-tier consulting or investing firm paired with a real operating role at a high-growth company.
- Experience designing internal communications rhythms (all-hands, board updates, weekly business reviews).
- Comfort translating between technical and business audiences with equal fluency.
What does a successful 1X Team Member look like?
Team members at 1X who thrive here are builders. They move fast, own their work completely, and treat time like it’s the one thing you can’t get back - because it is. They say what they mean, finish what they start, and hold themselves to a standard before anyone has to ask. We push each other to be better, and we do it with honesty and respect.
Compensation Range
$230,000 – $280,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
- 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
- Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
- Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches
Equal Opportunity Employer
1X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, justice system impact, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.