Chief of Staff

Matter Intelligence • San Francisco, CA

14d • Onsite

About The Position

Matter is looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO and drive the company’s most important strategic initiatives across engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations. This is a high-trust, high-context operating role for someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution. You will help the CEO translate company priorities into crisp operating plans, connect the right teams at the right moments, surface misalignment early, and ensure that important work does not stall between functions. The ideal candidate is not looking for a purely administrative staff role. They are a strong operator who can take ambiguous company-level problems, structure them, drive them forward, and build durable systems so the company gets faster as it scales.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in a high-performance operating environment such as an early-stage startup, strategy / business operations role, management consulting, investing, product operations, or a founder / founding-team role
• Exceptional judgment, organization, and follow-through in ambiguous situations
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional work across technical, commercial, financial, legal, or operational stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to turn complexity into clear decisions, narratives, and operating plans
• High ownership: willing to take responsibility for outcomes, not just coordination
• Strong analytical ability and comfort working with financial, operational, customer, and product information
• Low ego and high trustworthiness; able to operate with sensitive information and work closely with senior leaders
• Bias to action, resourcefulness, and comfort building structure where none exists
• Technical curiosity and the ability to earn credibility with engineers and scientists without needing to be the technical expert

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic initiatives directly for the CEO, from problem definition through execution, follow-through, and operating cadence
• Connect engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations teams to keep priorities aligned and dependencies visible
• Turn executive priorities into clear workstreams, owners, timelines, decision points, and communication rhythms
• Identify where the company is blocked, misaligned, or under-resourced, and help resolve issues before they become bottlenecks
• Support company planning, leadership meetings, board and investor materials, operating reviews, and cross-functional decision-making
• Partner with commercial and product leaders to ensure customer commitments, product direction, delivery requirements, and business priorities stay connected
• Partner with finance and legal on contracts, approvals, budgets, procurement, compliance, and other operating systems as the company scales
• Build lightweight processes that improve execution without adding bureaucracy
• Take on special projects where the company needs focused ownership and there is not yet a clear functional home

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed