Chief of Staff

Join a small San Francisco startup that builds creative tools on the cutting edge of AI. The team is remote and global. The Role: You are the founder’s right hand. Where an operations manager runs the systems that already exist, you take the first step on the ones that don’t. I want to hand you an outcome and then stop thinking about it. “Figure out whether we should launch this.” “Our onboarding is broken. Fix it.” “Find the right vendor, negotiate it, get implementation moving.” “We need a system for this. Come back with one.” You work out what the actual problem is, research it, make the calls you can make, flag the ones I have to make, build the plan, and get the first chunk of it done before you bring it back to me. What I am hoping to hear back sounds like: “Here’s the plan. I posted the role, screened 40 applicants, and these are the five worth interviewing.” There is more work in front of us than there are people to own it. Your scope is wherever my priorities are. The path from here is Chief of Staff to Head of Operations. What You’ll Own 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. 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 t