Chief of Staff

Lantern•San Francisco, CA

7d•$180,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Lantern is hiring a Chief of Staff to work directly alongside the CEO across product, deployments, sales, recruiting, and fundraising. The role focuses on taking the company's most important unowned problems and driving them to measurable outcomes. The Chief of Staff will own priorities end to end, from customer conversations and analysis through decisions and business results, and will work with a small team with direct exposure to company-shaping decisions. The position involves owning strategic priorities, establishing and running new functions, translating distributor needs into product decisions, supporting live implementations, recruiting critical hires, preparing fundraising materials, and maintaining the company's operating cadence. Lantern describes this as a high-impact, founding-era role in a large, underserved market, based in its San Francisco office. Compensation is approximately $200,000 base plus equity.

Requirements

3–6 years of experience in consulting, banking, venture capital, product, or an operating role at a high-growth startup.
Enjoys spending substantial time with customers, including distributors, and is effective in customer conversations.
Track record of taking ambiguous, cross-functional work through to a result.
Strong analytical skills, including building models, testing assumptions, and defending conclusions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, from customer emails to board presentations.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to earn trust with engineers, customers, candidates, and investors.
Extensive use of AI and interest in advancing AI-enabled work.
Bias toward action, high standards, and ambition about what to build.

Nice To Haves

Prior Chief of Staff, BizOps, strategy, or early go-to-market experience at a seed- to Series B-stage company.
Exposure to supply chain, distribution, industrials, or B2B software sold to non-technical buyers.

Responsibilities

Own Lantern's highest-leverage strategic priorities end to end and be accountable for outcomes.
Establish new functions, build and run their initial operations, own the numbers, scale effective approaches, and help hire functional leaders.
Work across product and deployments to translate distributors' needs into product decisions and unblock live implementations.
Run recruiting for critical hires, from sourcing through closing, and help set hiring standards.
Support fundraising by building financial models, the narrative, and diligence materials.
Own the operating cadence, including metrics, meeting rhythm, board preparation, and investor updates.