Strategic Operations Leader - Direct to CEO

Chipiron; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chipiron in Paris seeks a Head of Strategic Operations reporting to the CEO to progressively operate the company. You will work across strategy, R&D, clinical development, regulatory strategy, recruiting, and organizational design, aiming to move the company faster and eventually run day-to-day leadership.

You will be given unusually fast responsibility, with high expectations, and will develop the ability to make excellent decisions independently while building the company’s operating cadence.

Qualifications

• You learn fast
• You have extreme agency
• You are unusually resourceful
• You hate letting problems sit unresolved
• You naturally take ownership beyond your formal responsibilities
• You are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
• You can move between technical, financial and organizational problems rapidly
• You have extremely high standards
• You can absorb a large amount of work without becoming disorganized
• You communicate directly
• You are intellectually independent
• You care more about learning and impact than hierarchy
• You want responsibility faster than most organizations are willing to give it
• At some point, you could imagine running a company yourself

Responsibilities

• Learn how the company works and progressively take over day-to-day leadership
• Own the company's operating cadence and cross-functional execution
• Drive management follow-up and execution of strategic decisions
• Contribute to fundraising, board preparation and organizational design
• Address difficult people problems and improve execution speed

Job description

Chipiron in Paris seeks a Head of Strategic Operations reporting to the CEO to progressively operate the company. You will work across strategy, R&D, clinical development, regulatory strategy, recruiting, and organizational design, aiming to move the company faster and eventually run day-to-day leadership.

You will be given unusually fast responsibility, with high expectations, and will develop the ability to make excellent decisions independently while building the company’s operating cadence.