Chief of Staff, Technology

Ironsite AI•San Francisco, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Ironsite is a tool company built by builders, for builders. We build rugged, hardhat-mounted cameras that capture egocentric vision data from the jobsite and turn it into a daily production report delivered to project leaders every morning by 5am. We help teams cut labor costs, improve safety, and finish projects faster. We have captured ~75,000 hours of construction footage across 7 states and just partnered with the nation's #2 hard hat manufacturer. In addition, we have secured over $13M from 8VC, South Park Commons, Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist @Google), amongst others. Now, we're building the team to scale nationwide. As Chief of Staff, you'll be a force multiplier for the CTO — operating as a direct extension of her across hardware, software, and AI teams. You'll sit in on the hardest conversations, own the follow-through, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks between disciplines. This isn't a pure technical role and it isn't a pure operations role. It's the person who can walk out of a meeting with mechanical & product design engineers, then a hardware standup, then an AI review, and connect the dots none of them had time to connect. You'll be trusted with context most people don't see, and judged on whether things move faster because you're in the room. We've assembled a team that's never existed before in construction—engineers from DeepMind, Etched, Meta, Apple and NVIDIA working alongside construction veterans from Turner, DPR, and Cahill Construction. Your job is to help that team operate at the speed the opportunity demands.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
Strong judgment and high agency; ability to decide what matters, then make it happen without being told
Enough technical fluency to hold credible conversations with senior engineers across hardware, firmware, software, and AI/ML. You don't need to write the code, but you need to follow the conversation and ask the right questions
Comfort with ambiguity and context-switching across very different problems in a single day

Nice To Haves

Experience at the intersection of hardware and software — wearables, robotics, IoT, cameras, or similar
Prior experience as Chief of Staff, founding team member, or first-few-hires at a hardware or wearables startup

Responsibilities

Identify leverage areas and remove blockers before they become problems.
Surface the things the CTO needs to know, filter the things she doesn't
Act as a trusted proxy for the CTO by representing her thinking in meetings she can't attend, and bringing back what matters
Run the operating cadence: planning, reviews, decisions, follow-ups.
Make sure the right people are in the right rooms with the right context
Drive priorities to completion across HW, SW, and AI teams; own the cross-functional work that has no natural owner
Serve as translator between disciplines, ensuring hardware, software, and AI teams stay aligned on each other’s constraints
Take on whatever is necessary in the moment: hiring, vendor negotiations, customer escalations, technical investigations, investor meetings