Chief of Staff

Force-Multiply the founders

• Take work off the founders plate and run it to done — fundraising prep, hiring, ops, GTM, whatever's hot
• Turn half-formed ideas into plans, owners, and deadlines
• Be the person who closes loops so nothing slips
• Execute on special projects that advance the company

Run the Operating Cadence

• Own goals, metrics, and the rhythm the company runs on (standups, reviews, planning)
• Prep board and investor materials, and keep the numbers honest
• Bring structure to chaos without smothering speed

Own High-Leverage Projects End to End

• Run special projects across GTM, product ops, hiring, finance, and partnerships
• Go deep on whatever needs deciding — research it, model it, write the memo, make the call
• Build the systems and processes that let the company scale past you

Be the Glue

• Connect product, engineering, and GTM so nothing gets lost between functions
• Spot the problems no one is looking at yet and get ahead of them
• Represent the founders when they can't be in the room

Core Traits

• Extreme ownership. You see a problem, you take it, you finish it. No "that's not my job."
• Sharp thinker and clear writer. You can research something messy, form a view, and write the one-pager that drives a decision.
• Range. You can swing from a financial model to a hiring plan to a customer fire to a board deck in the same day.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You're given outcomes, not instructions, and you're fine with that.
• You can hold a credible conversation about our world — AI agents, evals, observability — well enough to be useful across the company.

Desirable Quirks

• Physically cringes at a dropped ball or an open loop
• Keeps a running list of everything and actually closes it out
• Gets irrationally excited about a clean system or process
• Has strong opinions about what the team should and shouldn't be spending time on
• Thinks the job is part operator, part strategist, part firefighter