Chief of Staff

Superpower; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Diverse and international team

Job summary

A pioneering healthcare company is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO in crucial business areas like strategy and operations. Ideal candidates are those with exceptional taste, high emotional and intellectual intelligence, and a reliable nature. Responsibilities include managing recruiting, investor relations, and cultural initiatives within a highly ambitious environment. This role is dynamic, requiring adaptability as priorities shift, while promoting a health-focused ethos among the team.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have high ambition and strategic thinking.
• Experience in venture capital or as a founder is a plus.
• Excellent people skills and the ability to identify talent.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the CEO across business functions.
• Manage recruiting, investor relations, and internal communications.
• Oversee brand culture and special projects.
• Identify talent and determine subjective or intuitive decisions with strong judgment.
• Adapt role as company needs evolve and gaps are identified.

Skills

Strong taste

High IQ (>130)

High EQ

Reliability

Strong talent radar

Excellent writing skills

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Strong talent radar

Great cringe radar

Passion for health

Job description

This is one of the most important roles within the company. As Chief of Staff, you will work closely with the CEO across many of the most important business functions – strategy, recruiting, operations, fundraising, culture, and more. We’re willing to take 6 months to find the right person for this role, and want to make sure that we are incredibly aligned.

We're looking for traits rather than credentials. These include:

• Strong taste
• High IQ (>130)
• High EQ
• Low or medium ego
• High ambition
• Strategically sharp
• Brilliant writing skills
• Extremely reliable
• Strong talent radar
• Great cringe radar
• Passion for health

Your role as Chief of Staff extends many of the CEO's roles as a founder. As a result, the bar is high. We care more about who you are than what you have done. We believe in potential more than credentials. Whilst we don’t have requirements around years of experience, I do believe that just about each of the above criteria should be met.

People who are suited to this role might have a background in venture capital or as a founder. You are likely conscientious, have high attention to detail, great people skills, and a strong intuition, particularly when it comes to identifying talent and understanding people. You are likely a strong communicator, both written and verbal, and can represent the company the way the CEO would. Importantly, you likely have good taste, are aesthetically inclined, and can effectively make decisions that required subjective or intuitive judgments.

An effective CoS will take over entire parts of the CEO's job and do them as or more effectively than he can. Such a CoS will be highly reliable, manage up, and level up the quality of the CEO's execution and the execution of the entire company.

Your role will change often, depending on where the biggest gaps are within the company and areas where you should focus. In particular, your role might include:

1. Recruiting
2. Investor relations
3. Internal comms
4. Brand
5. Culture
6. Special projects
7. Modeling and analytics
8. Company goal-setting

You can find more about us below:

• superpower.com/series-a
• Superpower Overview

We’re proud to be a global team and welcome talent from around the world. We offer visa sponsorship and can support relocation to the United States for the right candidates. Much of our team is international, and we’re committed to building a team of top-tier talent.

Investors

• Forerunner (Top consumer healthcare VC in the world; early board members of Hims and Oura; Kirsten, founder of Forerunner, led our Series A)
• 8VC (leading health and bio investor)
• Evan Moore (Founder of Doordash; Partner at Khosla Ventures)
• Cyan Bannister (early investor into Uber and SpaceX, former partner at Founder’s Fund, regarded as one of the top angels in the world)
• Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO and angel, ex-General Partner at a16z)
• Arielle Zuckerberg (active angel, tech leader, relatively famous brother)
• Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
• Susa Ventures (tier 1 healthcare VC)
• Bond Capital (General Partner Jay Simons early-stage fund within Bond)
• Long Journey Ventures (investor in Uber, Notion, Loom, Affim etc.)
• Influencers
  • Shaan Puri (angel and podcast host of my first million)
  • Brooke Monke (50 million followers across socials)
  • Logan Paul
  • Steve Aoki
  • Justin Mares (founder of Truemed)
  • Giannis Antetokounmpo
  • Kylian Mbappé

Cementing the opportunity

• The world’s biggest company will be in consumer healthcare
• Solving longevity – the most important problem of our time
• A mayo clinic executive program 2.0 in the cloud

Company Philosophies

• We are all here to genuinely do our life’s best work.
• Insanely high talent bar, never settling. A players only (see steve jobs)
• We live to work as much as we work to live. But we sustainably espouse the superpower ethos of putting health first.
• We aim to set the gold standard for team health culture on the planet – live the ethos!

Culture at Superpower