Chief of Staff

Statecraft; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from the DMV area

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Touch Grass PTO policy

Home office budget

Monthly coworking stipend

Phone or internet stipend

Team offsites

AI token budgets

Job summary

Statecraft, a DC-area AI-native startup, seeks a Chief of Staff to drive operations, research initiatives, and executive support. You’ll partner with the founding team to keep projects on schedule, coordinate people, finance, legal administration, and vendors, and gradually take on larger, independent initiatives.

You will build processes, propose clear recommendations, and ensure follow-through while maintaining organizational discretion in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting an executive or founding team.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Own research projects, define questions, investigate options, recommend actions and drive to completion.
• Prepare executive briefings and track decisions, owners, and commitments.
• Manage people operations, onboarding, payroll coordination, and vendor relations.
• Oversee deadlines, contracts, renewals, and budgeting with outside advisors.
• Support event planning and drive marketing campaigns.
• Coordinate executive scheduling, travel, meetings, and offsites.

Skills

Research

Project management

Executive support

Scheduling

Budget & vendor oversight

Operations optimization

Tools

Justworks

Ramp

Notion

Job description

This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain/maintain a security clearance.

We build workers for the work that keeps the country running.

At Statecraft, we are building a synthetic workforce to help keep the US Government running. Our AI Operatives are trained on government workflows, operate reliably and compliantly, and build their own tools and software to help achieve outcomes and digitally transform outdated processes.

America is not short on forms, policies, or good people. It is short on hours. Our public servants are overworked and understaffed. For too long, contractors and consultants have made empty promises to solve this problem. Instead, they've wasted billions in taxpayer dollars. We're changing this with an AI workforce that works around the clock and improves over time. On average, we save taxpayers 80% while helping agencies deliver on initiatives and their mission 10x faster.

We've raised a seed round, worked some pilots, and are aggressively pursuing major contracts that put us in direct competition with staffing behemoths like Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz Allen. Our product offering also brings agentic coding to the government, with our AI Operatives capable of building software in minutes at virtually no cost to drive out overcharging software companies like Palantir, SAP, and Salesforce.

We're hiring a Chief of Staff to help drive this work forward.

We’re looking for someone to serve as an extension of our founding team. You may be early in your career, with a record of learning quickly and finishing work that matters. Doing well here means keeping recurring operations on schedule, giving leadership clear recommendations, and delivering projects without someone chasing the next step.

You'll work directly with the executive team on research and special projects across the company. You'll turn open questions into recommendations and take projects through to completion. You'll also own the daily operations that keep the team working, across people, finance, legal administration, and vendors.

As you build judgment and trust, you'll take on larger projects with more independence and help decide how the company runs.

Responsibilities include:

• Owning research and special projects across the company: define the question, investigate options, recommend a course of action, and carry it through
• Preparing executive briefings and tracking decisions, owners, and commitments so projects move forward
• Running people operations, including recruiting, onboarding, offboarding, employee records, and coordination with payroll and benefits providers
• Managing operating deadlines, routine agreements and renewals, vendors and purchasing within approved budgets, and invoice, payment, expense, and bookkeeping records with outside advisors
• Supporting event planning, coordinating PR, and driving marketing campaigns
• Managing executive scheduling, travel, correspondence, and follow-ups, and organizing company meetings, events, and offsites

We are still incredibly early. Processes will be missing and priorities will change. You'll help build those processes while running them, raise problems early, and know when a decision needs leadership or an outside adviser.

Statecraft is fully AI-native. You'll have room to automate our own operations, using AI to prepare briefings, organize records, track follow-ups, and reduce repetitive work. Bring an idea for what should run itself, and you'll have the agents and budget to make it happen.

Of course, there are some requirements for this opportunity:

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance
• Must be based in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia (DMV) area
• Evidence that you take responsibility and finish what you start, through work, internships, campus leadership, military or public service, or substantial projects
• Strong organization and discretion; you'll handle sensitive company and employee information
• Clear written communication and comfort with spreadsheets and checking numbers
• Comfort working independently, handling administrative details, and managing competing priorities

And these are some additional nice-to-haves:

• You already use AI tools daily and have automated parts of your own workflow
• Experience supporting an executive or coordinating people, finance, or administrative operations
• Experience at a startup or working with government organizations
• Experience with tools such as Justworks, Ramp, and Notion

We want you to join us.

We can offer you a fantastic career opportunity:

• Remote work from the DMV area (until we open an office, at which point in-office attendance will be required), with occasional travel for company events
• Amazing medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + 401(k) matching
• Unlimited PTO + 10 standard holidays + end-of-year holiday break
• Touch Grass policy: must take at least 2 weeks of PTO every year!

You will love working here:

• Fix the bureaucracy and automate the government
• Work with exited founders and talent from Google, Palantir, AWS, and the Federal Government
• Help build the company that delivers this work for government
• Work on the frontier of AI
• Learn how to build an AI-native startup from experienced founders

And there are amazing perks:

• Generous budget for your work from home setup
• Monthly coworking stipend
• Phone plan or internet bill is on us
• Regular team offsites and plentiful opportunities to touch grass
• Max tier AI subscriptions and enormous AI token budgets