Chief of Staff - Founder's Office

Gushwork; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Unlimited AI usage

Stocked pantry

Plus swag

Job summary

Gushwork is reinventing how B2B brands get discovered online from Bengaluru and the US. We are an agentic AI startup changing discovery with content engines that attract AI and human visitors.

We’re at an inflection point, moving fast and solving hard problems with a talented team in a high-growth environment. If you want to influence priorities and drive execution, we’d love to meet you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of work experience.
• Worked in a startup with minimal process and precedents.
• Directly managed a team for at least one year.
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers, sales, and operations daily.
• Built something from nothing that others run.
• Owned an outcome end-to-end and can describe the before/after.
• Handled long periods of repetitive operational work.
• Disagreed with a cofounder or manager on a critical issue and managed the outcome.
• Writes clearly and concisely; memos should be actionable within two minutes.

Responsibilities

• Run the company operating cadence: weekly leadership meetings, monthly reviews, quarterly planning.
• Own 2–3 cross-functional projects end-to-end to prevent stalls.
• Act for the Cofounders with leaders and carry priorities forward.
• Directly manage a small operations team and scale it with growth.
• Build core systems for goals, hiring, performance reviews, and governance.
• Approach unglamorous tasks: board decks, metrics emails, vendor renewals.
• Provide candid feedback to the CEO with data and alternatives.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Team management

Program management

Executive communication

Job description

Gushwork is reinventing how businesses get discovered online. We’re an agentic AI startup that helps B2B companies show up in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity—by building a content engine on websites designed to attract AI visitors alongside human visitors.

We’re a US and Bengaluru-based company that’s raised over $11M from top-tier global VCs including SIG, Lightspeed, B Capital & Beenext. While search behavior is rapidly shifting toward AI, most B2B companies are being left behind. We’re changing that.

We’re at an exciting inflection point—moving fast, solving hard problems, and building technology that’s becoming critical infrastructure as AI reshapes how buyers find solutions. If you want to work on challenging problems with a talented team in a high-growth environment, we’d love to meet you.

More about the role below - if you feel it’s a fit, we are excited to meet you!

About Role

• Partner closely with the Cofounders to drive company priorities, operating cadence, and execution across functions.
• Own 2–3 high-impact cross-functional projects end-to-end, turning ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes.
• Build and strengthen core company systems across goals, hiring, performance, metrics, and operational processes.
• Act as a force multiplier for leadership—bringing structure to execution, challenging decisions with data, and ensuring priorities move to completion.

What You Will Do

• Run the company’s operating cadence: the weekly meetings with team leaders across functions, monthly business reviews and quarterly planning. You decide what each one covers, you prepare it, and you make sure decisions taken in it actually happen.
• Own two to three cross-functional projects at a time and take them to a finished result. These will be the projects that sit between functions and would otherwise stall.
• Act for the Cofounders with leaders across the company. You will carry his priorities into their teams, bring their problems back to him with a recommendation, and decide what he does not need to see.
• Manage a small team directly, starting with the people who run company operations, and grow it as the work grows.
• Build the systems the company does not have yet: how we set goals, how we hire, how we review performance, how we find a struggling manager before their team leaves.
• Take the unglamorous work yourself when nobody else should: the board deck nobody owns, the metrics email that stopped going out, the vendor contract about to auto-renew.
• Tell the CEO when he is wrong, with the facts and an alternative, and then execute his call if he still disagrees.

What You Have

Must have:

• You have 7 or more years of work experience.
• You have worked in a startup. You know what it is like when there is no process, no precedent and no one to hand a problem to.
• You have managed a team directly, with people reporting to you, for at least a year. You have hired people and you have let people go. Project leadership and dotted-line teams do not count.
• You are comfortable working with people across every function, from engineers to salespeople to the operations floor, most of your day. This role is mostly conversations, not documents.
• You have built something from nothing that other people still run: a function, a process, a business.
• You have owned an outcome end to end and can say what it was before and after you owned it.
• You have done long stretches of operational, repetitive work and stayed in it.
• You have disagreed with a cofounder or a manager on something that mattered and can tell us how it went.
• You write clearly and briefly. A busy person can act on your memo in two minutes.

Preferred:

• You have worked at a US SaaS or AI company, or sold into US customers.
• You have founded or co-founded a company, or were on a founding team through at least one hard year.
• You have worked with a CEO, founder or business head closely enough to have made decisions on their behalf.

Why You’ll Love Us

• You’ll be part of an early team at a fast-growing company, with a lot of impact
• You’ll get to work with really smart and helpful people
• We constantly adopt the latest technologies and stay close to the latest ai innovations
• Opportunity to influence the direction of the product and engineering culture
• Flexible PTO policy
• Unlimited AI usage
• Plus cool swag, a stocked pantry, and other benefits