Chief of Staff
Work directly with the CEO to execute across hiring, sales, marketing, partnerships, office operations, and process automation at a fast-moving YC startup.
About the job
What you'll do
- Take on whatever's breaking, slowing us down, or the bottleneck to our growth
- Execute new initiatives and one-off projects for growth, sales, marketing, and partnerships
- Hiring–sourcing the best candidates, running interviews/work trials, onboarding new hires
- Run inbound sales–product inquiries, security questionnaires, demos
- Talk to existing and prospective customers
- Understand and identify gaps in how we show up in the world and to our customers
- Run office operations and handle admin work (payroll, expenses, vendor management, all the stuff that needs to get done)
- Build and automate processes and systems as we scale
- Operational and keeping-the-lights-on tasks
Who you are
- Bias towards action–You move fast, make calls with limited data, and fix things in real time
- Strong operator with startup experience–you've seen how great organizations operate and can execute at that level
- High ownership–you own outcomes, not just tasks, and feel it personally when something doesn't ship
- Bias towards action and urgency–you have a visceral sense of discomfort when the ball sits in your court too long
- Highly autonomous–you make most decisions yourself, don't wait for permission, and move fast
- Set the tempo–you establish cadence and pace internally/externally and make sure things happen on time
- Extremely organized–you maintain context across many simultaneous projects without dropping balls
- Comfortable with ambiguity–you don't need a playbook, you write it and figure out what needs to happen
- Strong generalist–you want to get your reps across different disciplines from recruiting to customer research to event planning to operations
- No task is beneath you–you'll update the cap table, run payroll, and take pride in optimizing tedious work
- Strong product sense and taste–you understand what makes software feel great
- Keen eye for efficiency–you hate repetitive work and automate or eliminate it
- Love startups–you want the speed, the ownership, the opportunity to build things from scratch
Skills
Process Automation, Hiring And Recruiting, Office Operations, Payroll Management, Vendor Management, Project Execution, Customer Conversations, Sales Operations, Startup Operations
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