Paris-Based Chief of Staff & People Ops (Equity)

Dover; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

25 days of paid time off per year

Open-ended CDI contract

Partial remote work possible

Competitive compensation depending on

Job summary

Karavela, a neuroscience research company based in Paris, seeks a Chief of Staff to streamline day-to-day operations, automate processes, and own people operations, the office, travel, and events. You’ll work directly with the founders on urgent topics and build internal tools to save time.

The role covers hiring, onboarding, HR compliance, office management, and cross-team projects, with a competitive CDI, equity options, and partial remote work in Paris.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in operations, HR, office management, or a generalist role.
• Hands-on experience building tools with AI coding assistants or no-code tools.
• Some programming experience (Python, TypeScript, SQL) is a plus.
• Knowledge of French administrative and HR processes.
• Fluency in French and English.
• Strong organisational skills and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Run the hiring pipeline end to end (job posts, candidate tracking, interview scheduling, offers).
• Onboard and offboard team members, interns and advisors (contracts, internship agreements, equipment, accounts).
• Handle HR admin, compliance and contracts with payroll provider, accountant and lawyers.
• Manage the Paris office (space, suppliers, equipment, IT basics), as well as vendors, subscriptions and expenses.
• Booking travel and accommodation for the team, conferences and visiting collaborators.
• Organising team events, offsites and Karavela's presence at conferences.
• Building and maintaining internal tools, dashboards and workflows that save the team time (applicant tracking, onboarding, bookings, expenses, internal knowledge base).
• Helping prepare board, investor and advisory board materials, and following up on action items.
• Taking on cross-team projects that don't have an obvious owner.

Skills

Operations experience

HR experience

Office management

Generalist role

Fluency in French and English

AI tools experience

Programming basics (Python/TypeScript/

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Lovable

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Job description

Karavela, a neuroscience research company based in Paris, seeks a Chief of Staff to streamline day-to-day operations, automate processes, and own people operations, the office, travel, and events. You’ll work directly with the founders on urgent topics and build internal tools to save time.

The role covers hiring, onboarding, HR compliance, office management, and cross-team projects, with a competitive CDI, equity options, and partial remote work in Paris.