Chief of Staff

NOX METALS•Detroit, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Nox Metals is a technology company in Detroit supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers. We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible. We need a Chief of Staff who operates as a force multiplier for the entire company. Not a strategist who writes memos. An operator who ships. The kind of person who takes ten things off your plate before you even ask, runs five workstreams at once, and somehow makes the whole company move faster. Nox Metals is an employer with real opportunity for long term career growth, this is a place to build a career, not just hold a job.

Requirements

3 to 5+ years as an operator with a real shipping track record, in operations, ops at a startup, consulting with operating exposure, or comparable roles
Super organized and relentlessly executing, you do not lose details and you do not miss commitments
High agency, you handle big items alone and ask for help when needed
Cracked with AI tools, modern software, and data, you live in the stack and use it to do the work of three people
Sharp with numbers and not afraid to dig into financials, supplier data, customer data, or operational data and pull a real answer out
Customer obsessed, you understand the company is judged by what customers experience, and you make sure they experience excellence
A builder at heart, you would rather ship a working v1 today than ship a perfect v3 next month
Comfortable in any meeting, with operators on the floor, with customers on a call, with engineers on a code review
High attention to quality, every dashboard, every doc, every project
Always thinking about how to make processes better, you do not accept "this is how we have always done it"
A team player with a good attitude, you make the company better for everyone around you
Someone who takes ownership, if it touches the founder's calendar, the company's plate, or a customer, it is your responsibility
Precise under pressure and reliable
Fast, not eventually fast, now fast
Low ego, you walk the floor, you talk to operators, you do the unglamorous work because it needs to get done
Committed to safety, you follow every protocol, wear your PPE, and never cut corners that put people at risk
Always suggesting something new, you do not just execute, you improve
Not afraid to work outside normal hours when America demands it
Never says "that's not my job"

Nice To Haves

Operator background at an early-stage technology, manufacturing, defense, or industrial company
Experience running ops, hiring, and customer-facing workstreams in parallel
Background in consulting, banking, or operating roles where you owned real outcomes, not just decks
Comfortable with internal tools, dashboards, and lightweight automation, even if you are not a full software engineer
Comfortable using AI tools to work faster and smarter

Responsibilities

Operate as a force multiplier across operations, hiring, customer experience, finance, and strategy
Run projects end to end, the unglamorous ones, the urgent ones, and the ones nobody else has time for
Take things off the founder's plate before they get asked
Run internal operations, processes, dashboards, automations, and workflows that make the company faster
Build and maintain reporting and dashboards across every function, sales, operations, supply chain, finance, hiring
Manage priorities and keep things moving when ten things are happening at once
Run customer-facing work where the founder cannot, talk to customers, solve problems, close loops
Prepare materials for partners, customers, and the team, occasional support on investor materials, but the focus is internal
Help run hiring, sourcing, scheduling, debriefs, and closing across every open role
Run the operating cadence, weekly metrics, leadership syncs, all-hands, every meeting tighter than the last
Bring ideas from your background that nobody on the team has thought of yet
Always ask questions, never guess when something is unclear
Look at every workflow and figure out how to make it better
Work safely every shift and hold your teammates to the same standard