Chief of Staff (Founder’s Office)
Just Words
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: San Francisco, CA
Salary:
$60,000
-
$150,000
per year
Contract type: Full time
About The Role
We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to join the Founder’s Office and work side-by-side with the CEO. This role is a force multiplier for the founder, helping drive strategic priorities, building leverage across the organization, and ensuring the company executes with focus and speed. You’ll be at the center of decision-making, gaining a front-row seat to the challenges and opportunities of scaling a high-growth startup.
This is an ideal role for someone who wants to learn what it takes to build a category-defining company and is excited to wear many hats - operator, strategist, communicator, and problem-solver.
Responsibilities
We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to join the Founder’s Office and work side-by-side with the CEO. This role is a force multiplier for the founder, helping drive strategic priorities, building leverage across the organization, and ensuring the company executes with focus and speed. You’ll be at the center of decision-making, gaining a front-row seat to the challenges and opportunities of scaling a high-growth startup.
This is an ideal role for someone who wants to learn what it takes to build a category-defining company and is excited to wear many hats - operator, strategist, communicator, and problem-solver.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Execution
- Drive the CEO’s top priorities, from company-wide OKRs to critical cross-functional initiatives.
- Founder Leverage
- Help with Go to market - including booking calls, preparing decks and conducting company researches
- Wear different hats across all functions such as HR management, accounting and finance management
- Act as a thought partner and sounding board on strategic decisions
- Operational Excellence
- Build lightweight processes that scale as the company grows without slowing velocity.
- Anticipate and resolve operational issues, to elevate customer success, and internal efficiencies
- Special Projects
- Lead high-impact, ambiguous projects that don’t have a clear owner - ranging from Marketing initiatives, Sales to Fundraising.
- Run point on partnerships, research, and external opportunities as delegated by the CEO.
- Experience: 2–5 years of experience as a founder, or in management consulting, operations, or in an early-stage startup environment.
- Skills:
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, can synthesize complex ideas clearly.
- Highly analytical; comfortable working with data and financial models.
- Strong project management; able to drive initiatives from 0→1 with little oversight.
- Mindset:
- Founder-like - bias to action, resourceful, comfortable with ambiguity.
- Low-ego team player who thrives in fast-moving environments.
- Hungry to learn and grow; motivated by building something from the ground up.
- Direct exposure to the CEO, board, and leadership team.
- A crash course in company building - strategy, fundraising, GTM, operations.
- A path to grow into a leadership role in the company as we scale.
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