AI-Native Chief of Staff

Aonic • San Francisco, CA

1d • $140,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Aonic is building Aonic Club, an online, AI-native membership offering elevated everyday products at cost, starting with functional nutrition. The company makes its products and uses AI agents for sourcing, content, forecasting, and customer service. Its ambition is to reach 1 million members and become a $10 billion company within a few years.

The AI-Native Chief of Staff works directly with the CEO on high-impact problems across operations, growth, and finance. The role turns ambiguous, high-stakes problems into structured analysis, decisions, and execution, often by building AI-powered systems and workflows. Within the first months, the person will take ownership of a major responsibility, such as a department or product category, and build it from scratch. This is a broad, demanding role for someone seeking substantial responsibility, ownership, and exposure.

The position is onsite in San Francisco's Jackson Square. The stated work schedule is 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday. Compensation is $140,000–$180,000 base plus substantial equity, with the company targeting seven-figure annual compensation through upside.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of work experience, typically 3 to 8 years, at a leading company, with a strong track record of career progression.
• A degree from a top-tier university in engineering, science, math, business, or a related field.
• Candidates with a business background must have taught themselves at least basic coding and demonstrate technical fluency.
• An AI-native mindset, with hands-on experience using AI tools, automation platforms, and low-code solutions to drive real outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with comfort working across operations, growth, and finance.
• Genuine interest in solving real-world business problems, including physical operations such as production, supply chain, warehousing, delivery, and customer experience.
• Strong ambition and desire for responsibility and steep growth.
• Strong work ethic and intensity, with comfort working 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday.
• Ability to combine structured thinking, practical judgment, prioritization, commercial intuition, clear communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
• High agency: notices problems, takes ownership, and executes without waiting.

Nice To Haves

• Enjoyment of creating content and interest in authentic storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of an entire department or product category, building it from the ground up and owning its strategy, execution, and results.
• Support and improve daily operations across fulfillment, customer experience, supply chain coordination, and internal workflows.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and inefficiencies and design AI-driven solutions to address them.
• Own operational projects end-to-end, from problem definition through execution.
• Use AI to scan markets for products and ingredients, turning signals into a prioritized sourcing pipeline.
• Build automated supplier discovery and outreach workflows to identify, qualify, and engage suppliers at scale.
• Design AI-assisted negotiation workflows for pricing, minimum order quantities, and terms, and take deals from initial contact through signed agreement.
• Support growth initiatives across marketing, experimentation, and performance tracking.
• Build AI-assisted workflows for reporting, analysis, and execution, and translate growth objectives into operational and financial implications.
• Support financial analysis, forecasting, and unit economics.
• Build and maintain models, dashboards, and AI-powered reporting tools.
• Help leadership make decisions based on contribution margin and underlying economics rather than vanity metrics.
• Use AI, automation, and low-code tools to improve execution speed and quality across functions.
• Build internal tools, scripts, and workflows that reduce manual work, and identify opportunities to replace effort with systems.
• Tackle high-priority ad hoc projects directly with the CEO, shifting between strategy and execution as needed.
• Take ownership of problems that do not come with instructions.

Benefits

• Substantial equity, with compensation described as $140,000–$180,000 base plus equity and potential seven-figure annual compensation through upside.
• Direct, side-by-side exposure to the CEO and real company-shaping decisions.
• Opportunity to take ownership of an entire department or product category early.
• Learning and development through a role designed to accelerate experience and prepare the person for senior leadership roles over time.
• Work with a small, highly driven team in a no-bureaucracy environment.
• Access to AI and automation tools, with the company investing in a modern technology stack.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level