Chief of Staff to the Founder - EdTech (FR & ENG Fluent)

Paradox EN; Milano; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

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A dynamic EdTech company seeks a Chief of Staff to the Founder to drive execution and integrate key functions. The role involves ensuring alignment within the organization while challenging ideas and fostering a high-performance culture. Ideal candidates have significant consulting experience and exhibit relentless focus on results, with a strong affinity for AI and education.

Competenze

• 3 years in Tier-1 consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, etc.) + 2–3 years in a start-up.
• Experience as a former founder who built team, ops, product, or sales.
• High-performing Chief of Staff in a tier-1 growing startup.

Mansioni

• Drive Execution & Focus: exceeding planned P&L targets.
• Lead Yearly / Quarterly / Monthly planning and OKRs.
• Integrate all major functions of the company.
• Create a culture of performance and continuous improvement.
• Build dashboards, metrics, and rituals to track performance.
• Make the company scalable and turn it into a growth machine.

Conoscenze

Analytical reasoning

Execution focus

Conflict resolution

Strategic planning

AI and digital savvy

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Chief of Staff to the Founder - EdTech (FR & ENG Fluent)

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Deep inside you are looking for a new adventure with…

• Ambition: Smart Teammates driven to create an iconic international brand
• Impact: You strive to make a real difference in the company's growth, and not be a number in a big organization
• Mission: Knowing your greatness left a mark in people's lives

With Paradox, we want to empower high-achievers at scale, by leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI, and crafting user experiences with outstanding aesthetics.

This is why we are looking for a Chief of Staff to make Paradox a category-defining global brand.

With you on his side, our CEO David will be focused on: vision, strategy, organic content, strategic partnerships, and shaping the future of our products. The external side of Paradox.

Your role?

• The operator behind the founder. The force that turns ideas into execution.
• You make sure the machine runs, scales, and stays aligned — without needing him in every room.
• You'll harmoniously integrate all key functions
• You are the glue that holds the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy together.

This duo will work if you recognize yourself

• Highly analytical and comfortable challenging or disagreeing with our CEO in his thinking with strong reasoning and Data
• Obsessed with execution, not just ideas: Relentless in holding people (and yourself) accountable
• Hands-on and highly resilient under pressure
• Extremely hard-working
• Comfortable disagreeing with your CEO and being proven wrong
• Inspired by the intersection of AI, education, and personal development

This is a full-time position from our beautiful offices in Dubai, Paris or Lisbon or in remote anywhere in the world.

Important: Being present at least 2.5 months in Dubai per year is required.

YOUR MISSION

David Laroche (CEO) has built a personal brand followed by 2+ million, interviewed icons (Tony Parker, Mike Horn, Branson, Gad Elmaleh), and sparked transformation for thousands.

Paradox was born with the intent to build something beyond himself, and that can live throughout centuries.

The vision is to make Paradox an iconic Brand, and a symbol of Greatness and independent thinking.

For us, being Iconic is to innovate at the intersection of Psychology x Creativity x Technology.

We want to compete with companies like Mindvalley (150M ARR) that deliver woo-woo Personal Development.

We position Paradox for high achievers with grounded, science-backed mental models, AI-powered and a bolder brand. A strong positioning claiming our disdain for mediocrity.

Going from a successful personal brand to an international tech-driven iconic brand is far from easy. It will be messy, chaotic, and requires iterating on MVPs, innovating in tech, shaking social media with outstanding creative work while having a limited budget (we're bootstrapped).

So your main mission is to challenge ideas, filter the best ones, craft strategies, build a team of talents, and create an execution machine.

Our sources of inspiration are Apple, Nike, Spotify, Disney for their obsession with excelling, having a worldwide impact, and not just selling products but crafting experiences.

You will play a pivotal role in making Paradox play at that level and becoming an iconic brand.

Your 6 main missions

• Drive Execution & Focus: exceeding planned P&L targets
• Lead Yearly / Quarterly / Monthly planning and OKRs
• Turning vision into OKRs, roadmaps, systems
• Integrate all major functions of the company
• Play devil's advocate with the CEO and determine when to stay focused
• Create a culture of performance, a tempo of urgency, execution & continuous improvement
• Set a high tempo and hold people accountable
• Build dashboards, metrics, rituals
• Address underperformance quickly and decisively
• SCALE: Make the company Scalable and turn it into a growth machine (obsession with AI possibilities)
• Design and improve systems, workflows, tech stack
• Lead automation, tooling, and AI agent deployment
• Solve root problems that slow down execution
• Talent Density: Personally source, recruit, and onboard A-Players
• Raise the hiring bar across the company
• Track company-wide sourcing KPIs
• Make Paradox cost-efficient
• Forecast requirements and prepare annual budget
• Cut waste, challenge spending, increase margin
• Oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing
• Dig into the Data, find patterns, and make changes happen from them
• Dig into product, marketing, sales, and ops data
• Find patterns and turn them into actions

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

Experience:

• 3 years in Tier-1 consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, etc.) + 2–3 years in a start-up
• Or former founder (even failed) who built team + ops + product + sales — and learned fast
• Or high-performing Chief of Staff in a tier-1 growing startup

Traits: Must have:

• Driven & Hard worker: You get things done, you love to work beyond 9-5, you have a doer mentality, a bias for outcomes, and want to be a beast in your field
• Strategic thinking, analytical, and system thinker: able to quickly identify and formulate problems, facilitate decision-making, simplify complex and chaotic issues into efficient solutions and systems quickly
• Great at planning and execution: great at taking ideas and effectively initiating plans to make them a reality.
• Comfort in conflict: you know when to disagree hard, and when to commit fast.
• Growth over Ego: you are really at ease with receiving regular hard feedback, you love to learn, read, study, and you’re able to put your ego aside
• Digital & AI savvy: you’re able to build AI Agents (if not, demonstrate you are able to learn while applying)
• Inspired by the field of Edtech, coaching, personal development, or training

Nice to have:

• Influence without authority: Catalyst for team cohesion and effective conflict management, you make others want to follow you
• A love for structure: An obsession with getting the house in order

Languages

French: native

English: Fluent English, you can hold a conversation on specific details with English-speaking colleagues.

Our chosen language for written communication is English.

IT MIGHT NOT BE FOR YOU ️

You don’t want to play the “bad guy” to bring discipline, accountability, and obsession with Talent Density. This role will require you to challenge people, drive performance, deliver hard truths, and fire. Winning & Execution > popularity.

You want more “balance” and less intensity in your next role: this is a builder’s phase, not a decompression zone.

Allergic to execution: This role is not just strategy — it requires hands-on execution

You thrive in order, not in chaos. We need someone who creates clarity, not waits for it.

You understand strategy, but never owned the execution

You prioritize harmony over performance

JOIN US IF YOU CRAVE

You will play a crucial role in the development of an iconic company

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We hire only the best, it’s exhilarating to be surrounded by A-players who strive to perform whilst being in a good mood. You'll be working with some of the best minds. We understand that