Chief of Staff, AI Automation
About The Position
TIFIN builds the AI operating layer for wealth. Our platform delivers agentic workflows across the industry’s core personas—investors, advisors, investment teams, and operations—so financial institutions can move faster, serve more clients, and deliver better outcomes with the same (or fewer) resources. We combine finance-native AI, specialized data, and enterprise-grade controls to deploy secure, compliant capabilities into real production environments. We are looking for a highly capable, technically inclined operator to work directly with our Founder & Executive Chairman, Dr. Vinay Nair, on some of TIFIN’s highest-priority initiatives. This is not a traditional Chief of Staff role. We are looking for someone who combines the judgment and range of a strong CEO Chief of Staff with the technical curiosity and hands-on ability to build with AI. The right person will be equally comfortable working through a complex problem with the CEO, driving a cross-functional initiative, and sitting down to prototype an agentic workflow themselves.
Requirements
- Exceptional operator who is also genuinely technical — not necessarily because of a particular degree or title, but because you know how to use technology to build and solve problems
- Hands-on experience building with modern AI tools, LLMs, agentic systems, automation platforms, or adjacent technologies
- Can independently prototype workflows and solutions rather than relying entirely on engineering resources to turn an idea into something tangible
- Experience working closely with a founder, CEO, or senior executive
- Strong judgment and can quickly understand unfamiliar businesses, products, and problems, form a point of view, and act on it
- Can turn loosely defined objectives into concrete action while managing multiple high-priority workstreams
- Communicate clearly and can engage credibly with executives, engineers, investors, partners, and other senior stakeholders
- Background could include Chief of Staff, business operations, product, engineering, AI, consulting, founding or operating a startup, or a combination of these.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- We care more about the combination of technical capability, judgment, and execution than a conventional career path.
- Former founders and operators who have built technical products or businesses may be particularly well suited to this role.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with the CEO
- Work closely with the CEO to translate priorities and ideas into clear plans, owners, and execution
- Own high-priority projects that span products, businesses, and functions across TIFIN
- Rapidly get up to speed on new problems, develop a point of view, and move from ambiguity to action
- Anticipate issues, dependencies, and opportunities, increasing the speed and quality with which CEO priorities move through the organization
- Build with AI
- Personally build and prototype AI-powered and agentic workflows that improve how TIFIN operates
- Identify work that can be redesigned using AI rather than simply layering AI onto existing processes
- Translate loosely defined business problems into working AI prototypes and workflows, experimenting quickly to determine what is genuinely useful
- Partner with product and engineering teams when an initial prototype or workflow should become a more scalable solution
- Own and Execute
- Take ownership of important initiatives that do not fit neatly within one existing function
- Work across product, engineering, commercial, and operations to move complex work from idea through execution
- Create structure around ambiguous problems, establish clear owners and timelines, and maintain accountability
- Do the work required to move an initiative forward — whether that means research, analysis, building a workflow, preparing a recommendation, or resolving an operational blocker
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is available for exceptional candidates currently outside of the area.
- 90-100% medical, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Retirement benefits
- Flexible PTO
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
