Chief of Staff to the CEO

TetraScience, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Stock options

100% employer-paid benefits

401(k)

Unlimited paid time off

Flexible working arrangements

Company-paid Life Insurance

Job summary

A leading scientific data firm in Cambridge, MA is looking for a Chief of Staff to the CEO. This role requires strong scientific and business fluency, alongside exceptional communication skills. The Chief of Staff will coordinate executive engagement with key stakeholders, craft narratives, and manage follow-through on critical relationships. A successful candidate thrives in fast-paced environments and is aligned with the company's values. Offers competitive compensation, stock options, and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Scientifically fluent with strong business acumen.
• Ability to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Comfortable with stakeholder engagement in science and policy.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO's engagement with executives.
• Prepare materials capturing objectives and decisions.
• Turn notes into action plans with deadlines.
• Craft concise narratives for senior audiences.
• Collaborate to maintain effective operating rhythms.

Skills

Advanced training in life sciences

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Managing complex multi-stakeholder workstreams

Engaging with R&D leaders and public-sector stakeholders

Ability to synthesize narratives

Education

Advanced degree 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 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