Chief of Staff, Co-CEO
Serve as high-leverage operator and execution partner to the Co-CEO of an AI world models company. Drive strategic initiatives, translate goals into action plans, remove operational bottlenecks, and maintain visibility on priorities while building deep product and market understanding.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with the Co-CEO and Executive Team to drive strategic initiatives forward.
- Champion and translate high-level goals set by the Co-CEO into clear action plans by defined scope, owners, and timelines.
- Translate customer insights from the Co-CEO's conversations into structured asks and follow up.
- Maintain a single source of truth on top-priority initiatives so the Executive Team has visibility.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and ensure consistent follow-through on key initiatives.
- Work cross-functionally across GTM, Partnerships, Product, Research, Engineering, Finance, and others to shape opportunities for execution.
- Develop a deep, functional and technical understanding of our products and future roadmap, with a keen sense of where Runway sits in the market.
Requirements
- 4+ years of overall experience across some combination of investment banking, consulting, finance, or strategy & operations at early-stage startups.
- Motivated by the opportunity to build new systems in a high-growth environment, with a focus on quality, scale, and automation.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to surface issues early and keeping the right people informed before being prompted.
- Executive presence and communication, with the ability to hold your own with a studio chief, a CTO, and a Runway research lead in the same week.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities with expansive ownership.
- A strong bias towards action and belief that no task is too small for you.
- High technical aptitude for understanding complex technologies, tools, systems, and issues.
- New York based preferred.
Skills
Strategy & Operations, Investment Banking, Consulting, Finance, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Technical Aptitude, Executive Communication
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