# Chief of Staff

**Company:** [Wafer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/wafer)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Vendor Negotiation, Recruiting, Legal Operations, Project Management, Customer Relationship Management, Office Operations, Technical Communication, AI Infrastructure, Strategic Planning
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Works directly with the CEO to drive ambiguous strategic and operational priorities across customers, recruiting, finance, legal, and special projects. Requires exceptional judgment, organization, communication, technical curiosity, and execution in a fast-moving environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive ambiguous problems from rough ideas to completed outcomes.
- Keep company priorities moving across teams and prevent important work from falling through the cracks.
- Manage important customer relationships, including meetings, visits, dinners, follow-ups, gifts, and events.
- Own company operations such as office operations, vendors, logistics, travel, contracts, and special projects.
- Support high-priority recruiting processes and help close exceptional candidates.
- Handle legal and administrative workflows with outside counsel and drive issues to resolution.
- Translate technical context from engineering into clear communications for customers, candidates, investors, and partners.
- Identify bottlenecks, fix them, build lightweight systems, or help hire permanent owners.
- Take on the company’s highest-priority work as needed.

## Requirements
- Extremely high agency, with a bias toward independently solving unclear problems.
- Exceptional organization, attention to detail, judgment, and communication skills.
- Ability to switch between strategic and operational work and drive projects to completion.
- Scrappy, low-ego approach with minimal unnecessary process.
- Ability to represent the company effectively with customers, candidates, investors, and partners.
- Technical curiosity and fluency sufficient to understand an AI infrastructure company and learn from engineers.
- Discretion and trustworthiness with sensitive information.
- Experience operating in a fast-moving, early-stage, or highly demanding environment.
- Ability to learn quickly and execute at a high level.

## Work Arrangement
- Five days per week in person at the San Francisco office.

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