Chief of Staff to Founders — Startup Ops & Growth

Alkonos; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Visa sponsorship

In-person in San Francisco

Résumé du poste

Wakefield is an applied research lab building AI-native security services. You will work directly with the founders to own the motions that run the company: recruiting, partnerships, pricing, contracting, enterprise procurement, operating cadence, and special projects.

Your role includes leading initiatives that shape how the business scales, with the potential to become Chief of Staff for exceptional candidates. This is a hands-on leadership track based in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Real operating experience at a fast-growing startup.
• Built new functions, motions or organizations from scratch and kept them running.
• Strong operating fundamentals: planning, metrics, dashboards, written decisions.
• Commercial judgment: priced, negotiated or structured deals.
• You use AI agents every day to automate parts of your work.
• Genuinely care about building the machinery that makes a company run.

Responsabilités

• Own the end-to-end recruiting system: applicant tracking, agency partners, cadence.
• Build partnerships and channels that create real distribution.
• Pricing and contracting: annual agreements priced on what we protect, deal structures.
• Enterprise procurement: security reviews, questionnaires and vendor onboarding with large customers.
• Operating cadence: planning, weekly goals, dashboards, and board and investor updates.
• Special projects that don't fit anywhere yet, from first version to running motion.

Connaissances

Startup experience

Build new functions

Operating fundamentals

Commercial judgment

AI automation

Company machinery mindset

Description du poste

Wakefield is an applied research lab building AI-native security services. You will work directly with the founders to own the motions that run the company: recruiting, partnerships, pricing, contracting, enterprise procurement, operating cadence, and special projects.

Your role includes leading initiatives that shape how the business scales, with the potential to become Chief of Staff for exceptional candidates. This is a hands-on leadership track based in San Francisco.