Chief of Staff

Mash Studios Official; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mash Studios Official is hiring a Chief of Staff to join the founder in London, in person. The role demands a hands-on builder who can take ideas from nothing, assess commercial viability, and execute to turn opportunities into real businesses.

You’ll work directly with the founder from day one, speaking to customers and partners, testing assumptions, and moving fast to build the next success. No prior media experience is required; the focus is on thinking, what you’ve built, and what you’ve

Qualifikationen

• Commercially curious: understands how an industry makes money, who buys what and where value is created.
• Zero-to-one builder: starts from blank sheets and turns ideas into real businesses.
• Numerate and structured: asks the right questions and reasons about ROI, pricing, margins, and P&L.
• Customer-discovery minded: speaks to people quickly, tests assumptions and learns from market feedback.
• Proactive and high urgency: acts without needing direction and moves quickly.
• Builder not caretaker: creates from scratch and improves existing ventures.

Aufgaben

• Take ideas from a blank sheet, rapidly understand unfamiliar markets, speak to customers and partners, test assumptions, build business cases and turn opportunities into real businesses.
• Roll up sleeves and make things happen yourself.
• Work closely with the founder from day one.

Kenntnisse

Commercial mindset

Zero-to-one builder

Numerate & structured

Customer discovery

Proactive urgency

Builder mindset

Low ego

Solutions oriented

Owner mindset

Jobbeschreibung

I’m hiring a Chief of Staff to join me at Mash Studios.

I’m looking for a hands‑on builder, not someone who just wants to work on strategy. Someone who can take an idea from a blank sheet of paper, figure out whether it’s commercially viable, and then do whatever it takes to make it happen.

This is a role for someone who wants to build businesses, not just help manage them.

Mash Studios is a new media business focused on building original podcast and content formats, founded by me and my long‑time business partner (and best friend), Luke.

Together, we’ve built three businesses and exited two of them.

Our current business, Lucky Egg, was named the fastest‑growing founder‑led business in the UK by FEBE in 2026 and the second fastest‑growing private company in the UK by The Sunday Times in 2026.

Lucky Egg has generated more than 1.5 billion social media views, with products sold internationally through retailers including Walmart and Target.

Before that, we built Central 23, which featured in The Sunday Times 100 in 2024 and was sold in 2025.

Mash Studios is what we’re building next.

The opportunity

I’m looking for someone exceptional to join at the very beginning and work directly alongside me.

You don’t need any media experience.

In fact, I’m much more interested in how you think, what you've built and what you've achieved than what industry you’ve worked in before.

The role will involve taking ideas from a blank sheet of paper, rapidly understanding unfamiliar markets, speaking to customers and commercial partners, testing assumptions, building business cases and turning the strongest opportunities into real businesses.

This isn't a role where you'll simply develop strategies and hand them over for someone else to execute. You'll be expected to roll up your sleeves and make things happen yourself.

What I’m looking for

• Commercially curious: Instinctively wants to understand how an industry makes money, who buys what, what customers are worth and where companies spend to acquire them.

• A zero-to-one builder: Enjoys starting with a blank sheet of paper, identifying opportunities and personally doing the work to turn ideas into real businesses. Doesn't stop at developing a strategy or presenting a recommendation.

• Structured and commercially numerate: Able to enter an unfamiliar market, ask the right questions and think naturally about economics, ROI, pricing, margins and P&L.

• Customer‑discovery minded: Wants to speak to people quickly, test assumptions and learn from the market rather than over‑planning.

• Resourceful, proactive and high urgency: Doesn't wait to be told what to do next and has a strong bias towards action.

• A builder, not a caretaker: Wants to create things from scratch, improve what already exists and leave things materially better than they found them.

• Strong judgement with low ego: Comfortable making decisions with imperfect information, cutting through the noise and identifying what actually matters, while being equally happy to change direction when the evidence says they should.

• Solutions‑oriented: Takes ambiguous problems, gets to the bottom of them quickly and comes back with a recommendation, not just a list of questions.

• No ego about the work: Equally comfortable thinking strategically and doing the unglamorous groundwork themselves when that's what is needed to move something forward.

• An owner: Treats whatever they are building as their own mini business, understanding the customer, product, revenue, costs and ultimately whether it deserves to exist.

What matters most

The most important thing for me is evidence.

Lots of people can describe themselves as entrepreneurial, proactive or commercially minded.

I want to hear about the times you actually demonstrated those qualities:

• Something you built from scratch.

• An opportunity you spotted without being asked.

• A completely unfamiliar problem you threw yourself into.

• A time you spoke to customers, changed your view quickly and acted on what you learned.

• A situation where you moved unusually fast and made something happen.

This is not a narrowly defined corporate role.

It is an opportunity to work extremely closely with a founder, learn how new businesses are built from the inside and take a huge amount of ownership from day one.

Location: London, in person.