Chief of Staff

Bracket Bot Inc.•San Francisco, CA

135d•Onsite

About The Position

Bracket Bot is building the affordable robot platform developers have been waiting for. Useful robots are still too expensive, too closed, too hard to program, and too slow to deploy. We think that changes when great robot hardware becomes cheap enough for developers, labs, startups, and customers to build on top of it the way they build on computers. We are a small San Francisco team building low-cost, general-purpose robots that developers can program and deploy in days. The work is physical, technical, and immediate: robots in the office, supplier and production decisions every week, early customers and partners, a growing developer ecosystem, and a company that needs to move much faster than its size. Our goal is to build the platform company that helps robotics have its app-store moment. The Mandate Make the company move faster without adding process theater. This is a founder-leverage role, not an executive assistant role and not a slide-deck strategy role. You will work directly with the CEO on the highest-leverage problems in the company, then turn them into decisions, written plans, closed loops, shipped projects, and operating systems the team actually uses. At Bracket Bot, that might mean driving a hiring push in the morning, chasing down an unclear supplier issue before lunch, turning a messy launch idea into an owner-by-owner plan in the afternoon, and writing the investor or customer update that makes the whole company legible by the end of the day. The best person for this role will like the full mess of an early hardware company: product, people, money, vendors, customers, robots, documents, follow-through, and urgency.

Requirements

Unusually high ownership: If something matters and nobody owns it, you grab it.
Clear writing: Ability to make a confusing situation obvious in a page, Slack message, hiring note, board update, or decision memo.
Interest in operating close to the physical world: Desire to understand hardware, software, suppliers, customers, and field reality.
Ability to move quickly without getting sloppy: Knowing when a detail matters and when the team just needs a decision.
Ability to work across altitude: Fundraising narrative, hiring strategy, vendor follow-up, calendar pressure, messy spreadsheets, and operational details.
Ability to protect founder and team time without becoming a gatekeeper.
Low ego: Willingness to engage in strategy, writing, coordination, ops cleanup, and urgent "someone has to make this happen" work.
Evidence of work you are proud of, specifically a real example where you took something ambiguous, messy, or cross-functional and made it happen.

Nice To Haves

You do not need to be a roboticist, but you should want to understand enough hardware, software, suppliers, customers, and field reality to be useful.

Responsibilities

Convert ambiguous asks into decisions, meetings, memos, hires, customer follow-ups, vendor outcomes, or shipped projects.
Build the weekly rhythm for priorities, blockers, owners, metrics, decision logs, and follow-through.
Tighten roles, sourcing, referrals, candidate communication, work trials, interview loops, and Ashby hygiene.
Keep supplier, logistics, procurement, finance, admin, office, and lightweight legal workflows moving.
Coordinate pilots, developer programs, hackathons, partner follow-ups, launch plans, and the communication around them.
Write crisp investor updates, board/advisor notes, customer follow-ups, internal briefs, hiring materials, and decision memos.
Turn scattered context into simple trackers, docs, dashboards, rituals, and workflows that make everyone faster.