Chief of Staff

use Reach; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Reach AI in New York seeks a finance-first Chief of Staff to work side by side with our CEO. You'll own the finance function from day one, and the role is built around that.

In your first 6 to 12 months that means owning finance end to end, building the machine that finds exceptional people for Reach AI, and running the company's operating rhythm. After that you'll take on whatever matters most next, like opening a new office or launching a new go-to-market motion.

Responsabilidades

• Own finance end to end and run the company's operating rhythm.
• Build a hiring machine to attract exceptional people for Reach AI.
• Partner with the CEO on strategic initiatives and company-wide priorities.
• Scale finance, legal, planning and cross-functional operations as the company grows.

Descripción del empleo

We're hiring a finance-first Chief of Staff to work side by side with our CEO in New York. You'll own the whole finance function from day one, and the rest of the role is built around that.

In your first 6 to 12 months that means three things: owning finance end to end, building the machine that finds exceptional people for Reach AI, and running the company's operating rhythm. After that you'll take on whatever matters most next, like opening a new office or launching a new go-to-market motion.

About Reach AI

At Reach AI we're building the operating system to help companies monitor and control their visibility in AI search. We combine our platform, custom AI agents, and the top 1% of hands-on experts in organic growth (SEO & AEO) to help companies show up when buyers are researching and comparing solutions on Google and inside AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, and turn that visibility into pipeline and revenue.

We reached $1.4M ARR in 14 months, basically bootstrapped, and we're scaling to $10M ARR by the end of 2027. We've been doing this for companies like Globalfy, Praktika.ai, LegalFly, ColdIQ (#1 Clay worldwide sales agency), Indie Campers, Carro, Fidelidade, Fraudio, Noxus and others.

A few recent results:

• Grew Indie Campers' revenue attributed to AI search by +1,318.62% YoY (14x) and organic search revenue by +7.85% YoY across 2025, delivered during a full website migration. Read the case study.

• Helped ColdIQ influence $506K in signed contract value from organic and AI search in ~4 months, making SEO and AI search their #1 traffic source with organic traffic up 7.3x. Read the case study.

• Took Carro from a 0% to 34.58% AI citation rate (4.5x the nearest competitor) and the #3 most-cited domain in their category, now consistently closing 7-figure deals sourced from AI search. Read the case study.

You can see more of the results we get for our customers here.

We're turning services into software to disrupt the $150B+ SEO/AI Search market, which will get drastically bigger as search behavior shifts to AI and ad budgets follow.

“The global SEO and AEO services market will grow to $171 billion by 2030 from $81.4 billion last year", Wall Street Journal

The team

We're a team of founders, AI engineers, and SEO & AEO specialists passionate about creating a category defining company that moves fast and has fun doing it.

Our team has a proven track record of building and scaling fast growing tech companies. Jose Velez (CEO) was the solo founder & CEO of Rely.io, an internal developer portal used by top engineering orgs like ESPN Bet and Feedzai, and launched AI products that reached #1 Product of the Day and #1 AI Product of the month on Product Hunt. He raised $3.6M from top-tier firms like J12 Ventures, Shilling Capital Partners, Techstars NYC, and TheVentureCity, as well as from notable angels.

Alex Muresan (founding Head of Growth) is a 4x founder with 2 exits, and an operator who bets on distribution over product.

Bernardo Ferreira (founding AI search strategist) led the strategy behind more than 250M organic visits and €100M+ in revenue attributed to SEO at Worten (think Iberian Amazon) in 2024.

Location

This role is based in New York, in person, working side by side with the CEO. Expect regular travel to our Lisbon hub, where most of the team works.

Pay

The base salary for this role is $140,000 to $190,000 per year, depending on experience and how much of the finance and operations scope you can own from day one, plus equity.

The opportunity: why this role?

• You multiply the CEO. You own outcomes across the company, end to end, with the CEO as your partner and nobody in between.

• You build the functions, then the teams. You'll set up finance and talent properly, then hire and lead the people who run them. The role can grow into Head of Operations and beyond, as fast as you do.

• Huge surface area, early. Finance, legal, hiring, planning, a new office, a new go-to-market experiment. Few roles give you this much of a company this early.

• Real stakes. We're growing fast and hiring across delivery, sales and engineering. What you build decides how well we scale.

• Meaningful equity and a front-row seat to how a category-defining company gets built.

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