Chief of Staff

Eventual; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-person SF office

Startup equity

Catered meals

Commuter benefits

Team events

Health, vision, dental

Flexible PTO

Latest Apple equipment

401(k) match

Job summary

Eventual is seeking a Chief of Staff to drive the operating cadence and coordinate initiatives across GTM, operations, and legal. You will translate strategy into structured plans, align teams, and ensure hires and processes scale with growth.

In this generalist role, you will own planning, metrics, and materials for boards and investors, while navigating contracts, vendor relations, and stakeholder communications with a bias for action and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of high-ownership work in operations, strategy, or startup roles.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating cadence end-to-end: planning, goals, metrics, investor materials.
• Lead customer, partner, and internal conversations to outcomes rather than summaries.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives (sales/marketing) as needed and build scalable processes.
• Manage contracts and legal reviews with internal and external teams to keep product teams focused.

Skills

Strategic planning

Operations

Contract management

Vendor management

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Tools

MS Office

Job description

About Eventual

From humanoid robots to autonomous vehicles, every Physical AI model is trained on petabytes of video, lidar, radar, and sensor data. Today’s data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake) were built for spreadsheet-like analytics, not video corpora. And understanding that video still means paying a person to watch it, ten dollars an hour of footage at the low end. So teams check a sample and hope it represents the rest. The footage grows every year; the budget to look at it doesn’t.

Eventual was founded in 2022 to close that gap. Our open-source engine, Daft, is purpose-built for multimodal AI: 2 PB/day at Amazon, 60-100 PB at another FAANG company, and in production at companies like Mobileye, TogetherAI. On top of it we’re building the infrastructure that finds any situation you can describe across a fleet’s entire video history, and turns it into a training set or an alert someone can still act on. We fine-tune and run the vision models ourselves, which makes indexing every hour cheaper than annotating a sample.

We’re building this with the top Physical AI labs and GPU cloud providers. We’ve raised $30M from investors like Felicis, CRV, Y Combinator, and angels from the co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity. Our team comes from AWS, Lyft, and Tesla. We powered the last generation of Physical AI in self-driving; now we’re doing it for the next.

Join our small (but powerful!) team, 4 days/week in our SF Mission District office.

Your Role

As Chief of Staff, you’ll own the work that decides how fast Eventual grows and doesn’t belong to any one function. We’re a small team selling infrastructure to some of the most demanding engineering organizations in the world — Physical AI labs, AV programs, GPU cloud providers — and at our size a customer conversation becomes a contract question, a contract question becomes a pricing decision, and a pricing decision becomes a hiring plan. Someone has to carry that thread end to end.

You’ll own the company’s operating cadence — planning, metrics, board and investor materials — and step into whatever sits between teams: customer and partner conversations, contracts and legal, hiring, and the projects that don’t have an owner yet. This is a generalist role — meaning you’ll move between go-to-market, operations, and legal in the same week, but you own the outcomes and execute on them.

The functions you build here will eventually have leaders of their own. Build one well, and the most likely outcome is that you run it.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the operating cadence end-to-end: planning, company goals and metrics, board and investor materials, and the written decisions that keep a small team pointed in the same direction.

• Sit in on customer, partner, and GPU cloud conversations with the CEO — and run them yourself when the CEO can’t — carrying each to an outcome rather than a summary.

• Step into the functional seat we haven’t hired yet, whether that’s sales or marketing in a given quarter, then build the motion behind it so the eventual hire inherits a system instead of anecdotes.

• Own contracts and the legal path: act as the internal counterpart to outside counsel and carry deals through procurement and security review so engineers stay on product.

• Pick up the ambiguous cross-functional problem — pricing, a partner program, the first go-to-market hires — drive it to a decision, and hand it off or hire against it, complementing our business operations function rather than duplicating it.

What we look for

• 2-5 years of high-ownership work — Chief of Staff, business operations, strategy and operations, or early go-to-market at a startup, or consulting, banking, or VC followed by an operating role. A degree in a quantitative, technical, or business field is common on this path.

• Broad operating range across planning, metrics, contracts, vendors, and hiring, and comfort moving between them in a single day.

• Comfortable with commercial and legal detail — you can read an MSA, work with outside counsel, and hold your own on a customer or partner call.

• Clear writing and clear thinking — your memos and decks are good enough to send as-is, and a vague problem comes back from you as a recommendation.

• Technically literate enough to follow what our engineers are building and explain it to a customer. You don’t need to write code.

Nice to have

• Time at a data infrastructure, developer tools, or AI infrastructure company, or familiarity with the GPU cloud ecosystem.

• Exposure to Physical AI — autonomous vehicles, robotics, or ADAS — and a sense of what those teams work on day to day.

• Experience taking open source to a commercial business, or developer marketing, launches, and events you ran yourself.

• Enterprise procurement and security reviews, or a Series A or B raise you helped run from the inside.

• A bachelor's degree, or higher, in business administration, management, or a related field

Perks & Benefits

• In-person, tight-knit team — 4 days/week in our SF Mission office.

• Competitive comp and meaningful startup equity.

• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees.

• Commuter benefit.

• Team-building events and poker nights.

• Health, vision, and dental coverage.

• Flexible PTO.

• Latest Apple equipment.

• 401(k) plan with match.