Chief of Staff — Founder's Office

EduRankAI; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EduRankAI in Kolkata seeks a Founder’s Office Chief of Staff to translate strategy into action across research, product, partnerships and hiring. This role has no direct reports and offers broad, high-leverage impact working directly with the Founder.

You’ll run multi-disciplinary initiatives, conduct first-principles analyses, and craft executive briefings and board memos. The ideal candidate thrives on ambiguity, writes clearly, and can coordinate fast-moving projects with internal and

Qualifications

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Strong written + verbal communication — writes well enough that the Founder would publish your drafts under their name.
• High ownership and execution capability.
• Sound judgment and professional maturity under pressure.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
• Strong stakeholder management — internal leadership AND external partners (government, university, donor, board).
• Intellectual curiosity that survives professional context.
• Polyglot fluency across at least three of: strategy, ops, finance, product, research, partnerships, hiring.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Founder on strategic and organizational priorities — daily.
• Drive execution of high-impact initiatives across multiple functions (research, AI platform, product, partnerships, hiring).
• Conduct first-principles research and analysis on markets, technology, education, policy, partnerships, and organizational development.
• Coordinate cross-functional projects and own delivery against deadlines that the rest of the company is watching.
• Develop executive briefings, board memos, public communications, and decision-support materials — at a quality the Founder would publish under their own name.
• Support institutional partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and strategic collaborations (governments, universities, donor agencies, research labs).
• Lead leadership hiring loops alongside the People function — sourcing, calibration, panel design, closing.
• Identify operational bottlenecks across the company and design scalable solutions you then drive to implementation.
• Monitor progress against organizational goals and KPIs; surface drift early.
• Hold confidential and mission-critical projects requiring discretion and sound judgment.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Ownership & execution

Judgment under pressure

Ambiguity tolerance

Stakeholder management

Curiosity across domains

Domain fluency

Job description

Founder's Office Strategy, Execution & Cross-functional Leverage

EduRankAI is a frontier AI and educational intelligence organization working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, research, talent development, and institutional transformation. The Chief of Staff sits inside the Founder's Office and is the highest-leverage non-functional role in the company.This is not an administrative role. It is the seat where strategy meets execution, where ambiguous problems get resolved into shippable plans, and where the founder's bandwidth is multiplied by someone who can be trusted with anything from a board memo to a hiring loop to a partner negotiation. The Chief of Staff has no formal team and unlimited scope.The right person for this role will look at the company in three months and see their fingerprint on at least six different functions — and at six months will have made themselves indispensable in ways that did not exist in the original job description.You'll thrive here if: you treat ambiguity as a resource, not a problem. You read drafts of other people's writing for sport. You can run a hiring loop in the morning, a partner call at lunch, and a market-sizing analysis in the afternoon — and you would rather do that than specialize. You understand that the highest-leverage role in a frontier company is the one nobody wrote a job spec for, and you can write that spec for yourself.You'll struggle here if: you measure your impact by org-chart depth. You need a clear remit handed to you. You think founders should outsource judgment. You write memos that nobody opens.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Founder on strategic and organizational priorities — daily.
• Drive execution of high-impact initiatives across multiple functions (research, AI platform, product, partnerships, hiring).
• Conduct first-principles research and analysis on markets, technology, education, policy, partnerships, and organizational development.
• Coordinate cross-functional projects and own delivery against deadlines that the rest of the company is watching.
• Develop executive briefings, board memos, public communications, and decision-support materials — at a quality the Founder would publish under their own name.
• Support institutional partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and strategic collaborations (governments, universities, donor agencies, research labs).
• Lead leadership hiring loops alongside the People function — sourcing, calibration, panel design, closing.
• Identify operational bottlenecks across the company and design scalable solutions you then drive to implementation.
• Monitor progress against organizational goals and KPIs; surface drift early.
• Hold confidential and mission-critical projects requiring discretion and sound judgment.

Skills

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving ability
• Strong written + verbal communication — writes well enough that the Founder would publish your drafts under their name
• High ownership and execution capability
• Sound judgment and professional maturity under pressure
• Comfort operating in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments
• Strong stakeholder management — internal leadership AND external partners (government, university, donor, board)
• Intellectual curiosity that survives professional context
• Polyglot fluency across at least three of: strategy, ops, finance, product, research, partnerships, hiring