# Chief of Staff

**Company:** [Circleback](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/circleback)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $120k – $175k/yr
**Skills:** Process Automation, Hiring And Recruiting, Office Operations, Payroll Management, Vendor Management, Project Execution, Customer Conversations, Sales Operations, Startup Operations
**Posted:** 2026-06-19

> Work directly with the CEO to execute across hiring, sales, marketing, partnerships, office operations, and process automation at a fast-moving YC startup.

## Job Description

## 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

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