Chief of Staff

StaffGreat.com; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

StaffGreat.com is seeking a Chief of Staff as the first internal operations hire to work directly with the CEO and CTO, guiding priority initiatives from team scaling to owning financials and expanding customer and verticals.

You will lead end-to-end hiring, manage P&L and weekly performance syncs, drive strategic projects, and build internal systems as the founding ops leader while collaborating across engineering, research, and customer teams.

Competenze

• 2–5 years of operating experience, ideally at an early-stage startup (Series A or earlier) or in management consulting.
• Experience owning cross-functional initiatives end-to-end (hiring, finance, ops).
• Strong generalist problem solver with extreme ownership—able to take ambiguous problems and drive them to completion autonomously.
• High autonomy—self-prioritizes, pushes back, and drives outcomes without hand-holding.
• Comfortable using coding agents or writing code to solve problems (enthusiasm matters more than prior experience).
• Financial modeling / P&L management experience.
• Degree from a top-tier university; technical or quantitative background (CS, data science, engineering) a plus.]

Mansioni

• Own the hiring process as the company scales from ~8 to 20–25 people over the next 6–8 months.
• Manage company financials — P&L, costs, margins — and run weekly business performance syncs.
• Lead high-leverage strategic projects as they emerge (customer expansions, new vertical launches, research initiatives).
• Build internal operational systems and processes from scratch as the first person in this function.
• Work cross-functionally across engineering, research, and customer-facing teams to unblock priorities.

Conoscenze

Cross-functional ownership

Autonomy

Financial modelling

P&L management

Coding/scripting

Formazione

Degree from a top-tier university

Descrizione del lavoro

Our client, a rapidly scaling AI finance startup, is hiring a Chief of Staff as their first internal operations hire. You'll work directly with the CEO and CTO to drive the company's highest-priority initiatives — from scaling the team to owning financials to leading new customer and vertical expansions.

What you\'ll be doing

• Owning the hiring process as the company scales from ~8 to 20–25 people over the next 6–8 months
• Managing company financials — P&L, costs, margins — and running weekly business performance syncs
• Leading high-leverage strategic projects as they emerge (customer expansions, new vertical launches, research initiatives)
• Building internal operational systems and processes from scratch as the first person in this function
• Working cross-functionally across engineering, research, and customer-facing teams to unblock priorities

Required

• 2–5 years of operating experience, ideally at an early-stage startup (Series A or earlier) or in management consulting
• Experience owning cross-functional initiatives end-to-end (hiring, finance, ops)
• Strong generalist problem solver with extreme ownership — able to take ambiguous problems and drive them to completion autonomously
• High autonomy — self-prioritizes, pushes back, and drives outcomes without hand-holding
• Comfortable using coding agents or writing code to solve problems (enthusiasm matters more than prior experience)
• Financial modeling / P&L management experience
• Degree from a top-tier university; technical or quantitative background (CS, data science, engineering) a plus

Nice to have

• Prior Chief of Staff, BizOps, or strategy/ops role at a high-growth startup
• Experience at an AI/ML company or in financial services (IB, PE, HF)
• Experience building hiring processes and scaling teams