Chief of Staff

Astrocade•Palo Alto, CA

8h•$150,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform. Today's frontier models can write, reason, and generate video. None can build a world you can step into and act on. Interactive world models are one of the defining problems on the path to ASI, and the foundation of the next great consumer platform. Interactivity is the holy grail of content: not something you watch, but something that responds to you. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live. Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's one of the fastest-growing consumer products in the world, with over 30 million users in just months since launch. Creators bring to life games, companions that remember and grow with them, learning experiences that adapt like a great tutor, and social worlds built with friends. The platform also powers our research with data no video dataset contains: millions of creators prompting and refining gives us paired data of human intent and the worlds that fulfill it, and every play session produces ground-truth, action-labeled interaction data at scale. All of it flows back into our models, and research ships to real players in days, spinning a flywheel no one else can build. We are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai, and Stanford, led alongside Fei-Fei Li, with frontier-scale compute and direct ownership of core model problems. We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Google, NVIDIA, and luminaries including Eric Schmidt and Jerry Yang. The next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're the rare place where frontier research and a breakout consumer platform are one company, and where your work ships to millions, not to a paper. Come build it with us. About the Role We're hiring a Chief of Staff who operates as a force multiplier for the founders: someone who turns a fast-growing product into durable audience momentum and keeps a fast-moving company running at full speed. You'll own outcomes across growth, internal operations, and strategy, often as one of the first people on a problem until it's solved or scaled. You'll work directly with the founders on the highest-leverage problems in the company, shifting between strategic and deeply tactical work within the same day. One hour you're prepping an investor conversation; the next you're fixing an internal operational fire or standing up a system that should have existed months ago.

Requirements

5-10 years in high-growth tech: Chief of Staff, founder, early startup operator, GTM/BizOps leadership, management consulting, or a top-tier strategy role with a real operating track record
Proven zero-to-one instincts: you've grown an audience, launched a product, or landed the partnerships that unlocked growth, not just supported those who did
Exceptional written and verbal communicator who can distill ambiguity into crisp decisions and clear narratives
Extremely high energy and endurance. This is an intense, all-in role at a company moving at startup pace, and you're at your best when the stakes and tempo are high
Strong bias toward action: you default to doing, you're relentlessly resourceful, and nothing is beneath you or above you
Based in the Bay Area and able to work onsite in Palo Alto

Nice To Haves

Fluent in consumer, gaming, or creator-economy products: you understand how audiences grow, how creators are served, and how these products are built and marketed
Run partnerships, launches, or growth motions at a consumer platform at scale
Comfortable in data: you reach for the numbers to size a decision and to know whether it worked
Built internal operating systems (planning, KPIs, comms) from scratch at an early-stage company

Responsibilities

Founder leverage. Drive the founders' highest-priority initiatives and provide the day-to-day operational support that keeps them focused on what matters most: preparing for critical partner and investor conversations, coordinating priorities, turning decisions into execution, and handling the details that keep the company moving.
Company operating rhythm. Build and run the systems that keep a fast-moving company aligned: planning cycles, goal tracking and internal KPIs, internal communications, and cross-team execution.
Special projects. Jump on whatever is most important and least owned (a partnership negotiation, a launch, a market analysis, an operational fire) and drive it to completion.

Benefits

Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.
100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.
$650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.
$500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.
$200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.
Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.
Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.
401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.