Chief of Staff

Projects that do not belong to anyone yet, from framing through delivery. Hiring: sourcing, screening, scheduling, and keeping the pipeline honest. Contractors and artists, including scope, delivery dates, invoices, and follow-through. The operating cadence: what is tracked, what is overdue, what stopped moving without anyone noticing. Systems and SOPs for work that currently lives in my head. Investor outreach support: build the list, help send the emails, get the calls on the calendar. Whatever is on fire this month that nobody else can pick up. Some of this is unglamorous. Calendar, inbox triage, and travel come with being the founder’s right hand. It is a small slice of the job, not the point of it, but if that part is beneath you then this is not your role. What success looks like: First 90 days. You have mapped what is in flight and what has stalled. I have stopped chasing status. You have taken at least two initiatives off me end to end. Ongoing. You bring me decisions with a recommendation attached rather than problems. Fewer things need me personally each month.

5+ years of work experience, at least 2 of them owning outcomes rather than tasks. Strong written English (C1+) and comfortable spoken English on a live call. You can write to an investor, a customer, and a vendor without sending the same email three times. You can turn a messy topic into a short document: situation, options, recommendation, next actions. You work comfortably in spreadsheets and can sanity-check costs and tradeoffs. You decide without full information, and you say so when you got it wrong. Discretion, because you will see everything, including what is not going well. Available 9am to 5pm US Pacific, Monday to Friday. I can flex the start to 8am if that suits your day better. Reliable internet with a backup plan, quality camera and headset, quiet workspace. Modern laptop with 24GB+ RAM. This is probably not for you if You need tasks specified before you can start. You are looking for a strategy or advisory role. You would rather coordinate work than do it. You wait for approval on reversible decisions. You need your responsibilities to stay inside a defined box. You think AI output is finished work. On AI We are a slop-free startup. AI makes output cheap, it has not made reviewing that output any cheaper. Handing us unfiltered, unreviewed, verbose AI output moves your work onto someone else’s desk. That will get you fired. Use AI constantly, to take on more than one person could. Read everything before it leaves your hands.

Former founder, or agency owner and operator. Early employee at a startup where everyone did everything. Someone who has already been a founder’s right hand. Managed complicated client projects end to end. Built an operations function from nothing. Your title matters much less to me than what you actually owned. If you have made payroll, chased an unpaid invoice, or sat across from an angry client, say so.