Chief of Staff (AI)

Location: Greater San Francisco Area

Company

hirify.global is an enterprise SaaS company that helps organizations identify, measure, and accelerate the business value of AI investments using economics, AI, and data science.

What you will do

• Act as an extension of the CEO by translating founder intent into scoped workstreams, accountable owners, timelines, decisions, and follow-through.
• Protect the CEO’s focus and prepare materials for board meetings, investor conversations, and high-stakes decisions.
• Synthesize metrics, initiative updates, and team input into clear priorities and recommendations.
• Run the operating rhythm, including leadership meetings, weekly business reviews, OKR planning cycles, agendas, decision tracking, and follow-up.
• Own internal and investor communications, including All Hands, quarterly investor updates, and board materials.
• Lead special projects and temporarily own high-priority cross-functional problems across Sales, Marketing, Forward-Deployed Teams, Product, and Engineering until permanent solutions and owners are established.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a high-agency role, such as startup operations, management consulting, investment banking, venture capital, strategy, or business operations, with ownership of ambiguous, high-stakes work end to end.
• Experience growing an undefined mandate into a system, decision, or outcome that the organization relies on.
• Strong analytical and data fluency, including comfort with spreadsheets, building models, and reasoning from data.
• Use of modern AI tools to work faster and go deeper.
• Experience collaborating across functions and earning trust without formal authority.
• Ability to build culture through rituals, operating cadence, communication, and follow-through.
• High ownership, sound judgment with sensitive information, comfort with ambiguity, and enthusiasm for startup variety.
• Sharp written and verbal communication, including the ability to write concise memos and represent the CEO in meetings.

Nice to have

• Early-stage startup operating experience.
• Founder experience, including technology startup founder experience.
• Prior Chief of Staff experience at a venture-backed startup.
• Experience at a B2B or enterprise software company, ideally in AI.
• Exposure to board meetings, fundraising, or investor relations.
• Experience with M&A, corporate development, or executive recruiting.
• Interest in how AI changes the way companies work.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and benefits.
• High-trust, high-autonomy work environment.
• Opportunity to help build the company, culture, and products from the ground up.
• Healthy working practices and a culture based on judgment, ownership, clarity, candor, low ego, and systems thinking.
• Opportunity to learn and collaborate with researchers in AI and the digital economy.

Hiring process

• First 30 days: meet leaders, shadow the CEO, synthesize company priorities and metrics, own the weekly leadership meeting, and agree on 90-day priorities.
• By 60 days: run the weekly business review and OKR cycle, prepare the next board meeting and quarterly investor update, and lead a first special project.
• By 90 days: deliver a relied-upon special-project result, document the operating playbook, and agree on priorities for the next quarter.