Chief of Staff to the CEO

TetraScience, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

TetraScience is seeking a Chief of Staff to the CEO to operate at the center of relationships with global customers, partners, and public-sector leaders. You will amplify the CEO’s reach, drive follow-through on strategic initiatives, and synthesize science, business, and policy narratives for executive decisions.

The role requires a high clock speed, travel as needed, and a disciplined operating rhythm to move alliances, programs, and contracts from idea to impact.

Qualifications

• Advanced training in a life sciences discipline (MS or PhD).
• Meaningful exposure to business, strategy, or policy (e.g., consulting, banking, corporate development, VC, or senior operating roles).
• Comfortable engaging credibly with R&D leaders, business executives, and public-sector stakeholders on topics spanning science, economics, and regulation.

Responsibilities

• Amplify the CEO in the market by coordinating Patrick’s engagements with biopharma executives, technology partners, and government agencies; prepare briefing materials and post-meeting summaries.
• Own follow-through on critical relationships by turning notes into action plans, tracking progress, and surfacing risks and opportunities.
• Connect science, business, and policy narratives by crafting compelling narratives for senior audiences and synthesizing input into options for decision-making.
• Support a disciplined operating rhythm around the CEO by maintaining a simple cadence and protecting Patrick’s schedule.

Skills

Executive engagement

Written communication

Strategic thinking

Multistakeholder management

Travel readiness

Independent working

Education

MS or PhD in life sciences

Job description

About TetraScience

TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Company and developer of the Tetra OS, the operating system for scientific intelligence. We are fundamentally reimagining and replatforming science for the AI era.

TetraScience’s customers include many of the world’s top biopharmaceutical firms; its growing ecosystem of strategic partners includes NVIDIA, Databricks, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Snowflake, Google, and Microsoft; and its venture capital backers include Boston-based Underscore_VC, global juggernaut Insight Partners, and Impetus Ventures (the CEO’s fund).

In connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review and internalize "The Tetra Way" and “Unvarnished,” each authored by our CEO, Patrick Grady.

It is impossible to overstate the importance of these essays, and you should take them literally as you decide whether our mission, culture, and expectations are right for you.

Everything you will need to understand about working at TetraScience, and for Patrick, can be found in these writings.

The Opportunity

The Chief of Staff to the CEO is a high-trust, internal and external role for a scientist–business athlete who wants to operate at the center of TetraScience’s relationships with global customers, market-leading partners, and government agencies.

The role requires a fluid schedule, rapid responsiveness, and the ability to travel as needed to support CEO priorities. The role necessitates high clock speed, high bandwidth, insatiable curiosity, authentic humility, and continuous collaboration.

You will help Patrick focus on the few conversations that truly matter, then turn those conversations into structured follow-through that moves alliances, programs, and contracts from idea to impact.

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys working behind the scenes but at the center of what’s next in scientific data, AI, and policy—equally comfortable in a pharma boardroom, with a hyperscaler account team, or across the table from senior public-sector leaders.

What You Will Do

Amplify the CEO in the market

• Coordinate and support Patrick’s engagement with executives at biopharma companies, major technology partners, and key government agencies and consortia.
• Prepare briefing materials, talking points, and post-meeting summaries that capture objectives, decisions, and next steps for every high-stakes interaction.

Own follow-through on critical relationships

• Turn meeting notes, emails, and Zoom discussions into clear action plans with owners, deadlines, and measures of success—and ensure they are executed.
• Track progress on strategic accounts, alliances, and public-sector initiatives, surfacing risks and opportunities early so Patrick can intervene where he adds the most leverage.

Connect science, business, and policy narratives

• Help craft compelling, concise narratives and materials for senior audiences on themes such as Scientific AI, the value of industrialized scientific data, and sovereign scientific AI.
• Synthesize input from scientists, commercial leaders, policymakers, and investors into options and recommendations that support CEO-level decision-making.

Support a disciplined operating rhythm around the CEO

• Collaborate with Patrick and his executive team to maintain a simple, effective operating cadence that aligns Patrick’s time with TetraScience’s most important priorities.
• Protect his schedule and attention, streamline information flow, and ensure he always walks into critical conversations fully prepared.

Who You Are

Scientifically fluent, commercially committed, and outcomes oriented.

• Advanced training in a life sciences discipline (MS or PhD required), plus meaningful exposure to business, strategy, or policy (e.g., consulting, banking, corporate development, VC, or senior operating roles in science-driven organizations).
• Comfortable engaging credibly with R&D leaders, business executives, and public-sector stakeholders on topics that span science, economics, and regulation.

High-judgment operator with range

• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams with a mix of structure, urgency, and calm under pressure, thriving in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment.
• Willing and able to maintain a flexible schedule, respond quickly to emerging priorities, and travel in support of CEO and company needs.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; you can move seamlessly from a quick email recap to a polished deck or memo for a C‑suite or agency audience.

Low-ego, high-standards teammate

• Drawn to doing the unglamorous but essential work—note-taking, follow-ups, logistics, synthesis—that makes high-profile outcomes possible.
• Known for humility, discretion, and trustworthiness; you handle sensitive information and relationships with care.

Aligned with The Tetra Way

• Motivated by a mission with real stakes for patients and society, and energized by working in an elite, high-feedback, high-accountability environment.
• Willing to read, internalize, and live The Tetra Way—rigorous first principles thinking, radical transparency, and extreme ownership as non-negotiables.

• Competitive compensation
• Stock options in a VC-backed Series C company
• 100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members
• 401(k)
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Company-paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD

The salary range for this position is $185,000-$250,000. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. Final compensation is determined by a thorough evaluation of factors including the candidate’s specific experience, localized market data, and internal team equity.