Chief of Staff

Novig

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Novig is building America's #1 sports prediction market, aiming to financialize and democratize sports trading. With CFTC approval imminent, the company is set to launch across all 50 states as a federally regulated market focused on trust and user protection. Novig is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors and has raised over $100M. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the CEO and executive team, focusing on building and deploying AI-powered automations to enhance the CEO's operations and reduce repetitive tasks across the company. The ideal candidate is relentless, resourceful, and capable of producing significant output with the right tools. This position requires someone who can take ownership of complex, cross-functional challenges and drive them to completion.

Requirements

Relentless, resourceful, and sharp enough to out-produce entire teams with the right tools and instincts.
Ability to take ownership of messy, cross-functional initiatives and ship them.
Experience with prompt engineering, agent and workflow design, extensive scripting.
Experience with integrations between AI tools and existing systems (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Linear, etc.).
Ability to use AI to accelerate research, synthesis, and first drafts.
Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments.
Willingness to pick up whatever the company needs most.
Comfort with potential nights, weekends, and pressure due to the nature of live sports.
Not suited for individuals who need clear swim lanes, heavy process, or constant direction.

Responsibilities

Act as a force multiplier for the executive team by building, deploying, and maintaining AI-powered automations using Claude and related tools.
Own the CEO's operating cadence end-to-end, including agenda-setting, meeting prep, follow-ups, board and investor communications.
Eliminate repetitive work across the organization through automation.
Identify high-leverage automation opportunities across departments.
Translate messy, manual workflows into scalable, AI-native systems.
Bring a builder's mindset to internal tooling, including prompt engineering, agent and workflow design, extensive scripting, and deep integrations between Claude and existing systems (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Linear, etc.).
Drive strategic initiatives end-to-end on behalf of the executive team, including fundraising prep and competitive analysis, using AI to accelerate research, synthesis, and first drafts.
Operate as the AI-enabled connective tissue across Product, Compliance, Legal, and GTM, ensuring executive priorities are clearly communicated, tracked, and executed with automated status updates, dashboards, and follow-through.
Serve as a trusted right hand to the executive team, driving high-priority special projects from ambiguous ideas to shipped outcomes.
Leverage AI to compress timelines and operate with the output of a much larger team.
Thrive in ambiguity and be comfortable picking up whatever the company needs most, whether that's standing up a new function, running point on a crisis, or shipping a Claude-powered automation over the weekend.