Chief of Staff

Responsibilities

• Serve as an extension of the CEO — translating strategy into clear, trackable initiatives, driving cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, and GTM, and ensuring key priorities move forward with speed and accountability.
• Architect and systematize the company's operating functions — finance, legal, compliance, hiring, and ops — building systems designed for hyper-growth that are audit-ready by default.
• Support the commercial engine by structuring Design Partner relationships, defining ICPs, managing GTM cadences, and translating customer discovery into product direction and positioning.
• Own the capital and narrative layer — synthesizing market signals into a coherent story, preparing board and investor materials, and orchestrating fundraising processes end-to-end.
• Build and lead early-stage teams across new functions, acting as interim manager until a world-class domain owner is recruited and the function is handed off.

Requirements

• 10+ years in a high-execution role — Engineering, Technical Program Management, Product, or Strategy — with a proven track record driving complex, cross-functional initiatives from idea to completion
• Strong technical fluency: able to engage credibly with engineers and partner CTOs, represent the product externally, and identify technical growth opportunities
• Demonstrated experience building or scaling business operations (finance, legal, compliance, hiring) in a high-growth startup environment
• Track record supporting or leading fundraising end-to-end — data rooms, decks, investor narratives, and diligence management
• Experience structuring commercial partnerships: LOIs, ICPs, success criteria, and translating customer discovery into product direction
• Comfort pressure-testing executive thinking in high-stakes settings — surfaces blind spots and challenges assumptions constructively
• Proven ability to design recruiting engines and hiring bars that raise team quality; willing to act as interim leader for new functions
• Hands-on with automation tooling and AI agents — default instinct is to eliminate operational drag through systems, not headcount
• Builder's mentality: designs for 100x scale from day one