Chief of Staff

BlackBoard Studio; Town of Italy (NY); Remote; USD 40,754 - 58,221; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Flexible working hours

Opportunities for rapid career growth

Job summary

A fast-growing AI-focused startup is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the founder, influencing company growth and product launches. This role requires strategic thinking, project management, and problem-solving skills, ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, chaotic environment. Compensation includes a competitive salary and equity, with a clear path to COO. This is a unique opportunity to shape the trajectory of an innovative tech company.

Qualifications

• Experience in a startup environment or as a founder.
• Ability to drive product execution and manage cross-company initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills with quick learning capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate directly with the founder on strategy and execution.
• Transform ideas into actionable plans and drive product launches.
• Build internal systems to improve operations and communication.
• Anticipate and solve bottlenecks in the workflow.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Project management

Strong communication

Systems thinking

Problem-solving

Job description

Join one of the fastest-growing startups in Italy.

Shape the future of AI consumer apps.

Location: Hiring in the EU 🇪🇺 - Preference for candidates from Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

Contract: Full-time

Type: Remote / Hybrid (Milan office)

Who we are

Blackboard Studio is a startup studio based in Milan, Italy. We are a team of young, unconventional thinkers building and launching a portfolio of fast-growing consumer products.

In just 10 months, we’ve scaled to 500k+ users and $1.2M ARR, to join the AI revolution and make life a little bit easier for billions of people.

We’re a team of makers, designers, engineers, marketers, and operators - obsessed with building beautiful, scalable, and impactful products. Our studio model lets you work on multiple ideas (including your own), backed by proven distribution playbooks and an in-house marketing team that knows how to scale products quickly.

We’re building the European AI app powerhouse, a modern studio that launches, scales, and operates multiple AI-first consumer products under one roof.

And now we’re hiring a Chief of Staff to the Founder — a rare, elite, high-impact role for someone who wants to operate at the highest altitude of tech.

This is not a typical job. This is joining the founder’s brain, directly influencing the trajectory of a company that touches millions of users.

Why this role is insane (in the good way) 🚀

• You will work side-by-side with the founder on product, strategy, execution, and growth.
• Your fingerprints will be on every product launch, every strategic decision, every scaling milestone.
• You’ll operate across AI, consumer apps, education, creator economy, growth engineering, finance, and company building.
• Your learning curve? Think 5 years of startup experience compressed into 12 months.
• Your impact? Company-defining.

If you’re ambitious, fast, analytical, obsessed with product and execution, and you want to build something iconic, this is the role.

What You’ll Actually Do (the fun stuff) 🎯

• Be the founder’s strategic partner: transform raw vision, ideas, and chaos into clarity, prioritization, and execution. You’ll help the founder think better, faster, and bigger.
• Drive product execution across multiple apps: turn ideas into PRDs, organize roadmaps, run sprint rituals, and ensure that products ship fast.
• Own cross-company initiatives: from improving retention → to launching new markets → to rebranding → to optimizing revenue engines. You’ll touch everything.
• Build internal systems: OKRs, dashboards, hiring pipelines, Notion clarity, operating cadence. You’ll help build the internal machine that scales us to 20+ people.
• Amplify communication: prepare founder briefs, investor memos, internal updates, and communication systems that keep the company aligned and moving fast.
• Solve bottlenecks before they hit the founder: you are the air traffic controller. You see around corners. You make sure things don’t break. And when they do, you fix them fast.
• A Product Manager with range
• A Founder or early operator
• A Management Consultant (McKinsey / BCG / Bain / Strategy&)
• A BizOps or Strategy Lead
• A generalist who picks up skills in days, not months

Skill, mindset, and speed do.

This Role Is For You If…

• You want to work with extremely smart, fast, product-obsessed people.
• You love ambiguity and thrive in chaos (we move fast, we build fast).
• You’re a systems thinker who can zoom in and out effortlessly.
• You write clearly, think structurally, and communicate with precision.
• You have founder energy: ownership, speed, curiosity, and bias to action.
• You learn insanely fast.
• You want responsibility early, not titles later.
• You want to build something that touches tens of millions of users globally.

Compensation

Base salary (€35-50k based on experience) + equity. Direct path to COO.

Transparent hiring process

Candidates who match our fit will be invited to complete a non-technical screening survey about themselves.

If successful, the candidate will be invited to complete an asynchronous technical screening challenge to demonstrate their ability to handle real-world scenarios.

If successful, the candidate will participate in a one-on-one call with our founder to discuss culture and vision.

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