Chief of Staff

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the CEO, providing research, analysis, and sound judgment to support high-impact decisions.
• Ensure the CEO is fully prepared for critical meetings, negotiations, Board meetings, and external engagements through concise briefing materials, analysis, and recommendations.
• Drive follow-through on executive priorities, ensuring key commitments, decisions, and initiatives move from discussion to execution.
• Support relationships with investors, federal agencies, national laboratories, strategic partners, and other senior stakeholders.
• Prepare executive briefing materials, presentations, talking points, and supporting analyses for high-stakes meetings.
• Represent the Office of the CEO with professionalism and discretion when appropriate.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning engineering, finance, regulatory affairs, government affairs, facilities, and corporate operations.
• Translate executive priorities into coordinated action, driving alignment, accountability, and measurable progress across teams.
• Identify organizational bottlenecks and recommend improvements to operating rhythms, decision-making processes, and organizational effectiveness.
• Support private fundraising activities by coordinating investor follow-up, maintaining momentum between financing rounds, and preparing investor-facing materials.
• Help develop executive presentations, company narratives, and supporting materials for investors and other external audiences.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a Chief of Staff, strategy, external affairs, or similar externally-facing high-execution role.
• Experience supporting executive engagement with investors, government agencies, or strategic partners.
• Demonstrated ability to interact confidently with senior executives and external stakeholders.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including executive correspondence and preparation of presentations and board/investor-facing materials.
• Comfort operating across highly technical, regulatory, and financial domains simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with significant autonomy and ambiguity, in an environment where priorities shift quickly.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• This role will be exposed to export-controlled and classified information and requires compliance with applicable export control regulations and eligibility to obtain and maintain a DOE Q security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience at a high-growth startup, ideally in a capital-intensive or regulated industry.
• Experience directly supporting executive-level engagement with government agencies or national laboratories.
• Experience supporting a CEO through a fundraising round.
• Management consulting background (strategy or operations focus).
• Familiarity with the federal contracting/nuclear regulatory landscape.