Chief of Staff
About The Position
Our client is building AI agents that automate financial crime compliance workflows for banks and fintechs, including AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring. Their platform enables financial institutions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and LatAm to eliminate manual compliance workflows, reduce operational costs, and automate complex regulatory operations using AI agents that operate directly across internal systems and browser-based workflows. Backed by Y Combinator and leading European venture firms, the company is scaling rapidly with enterprise traction across major financial institutions. This is an opportunity to join an early-stage AI infrastructure company at a critical growth stage and work directly alongside the CEO across operations, GTM, strategy, hiring, and execution.
Requirements
- 0–4 years of experience in Chief of Staff, Founder Associate, operations, VC, or startup roles
- Prior early-stage startup experience
- Experience working directly with founders or executives
- Strong operational and organizational skills
- Exposure to GTM, marketing, recruiting, or sales operations
- Strong analytical thinking and execution ability
- Technical curiosity and comfort using AI tooling
- Ability to learn and build lightweight automations
- High ownership mindset
- Comfortable operating independently with little structure
- Strong communication and prioritization skills
- Willingness to work in highly demanding startup environments
- Interest in startups, entrepreneurship, and future founder paths
- Founder Associate or Chief of Staff experience
- Experience at high-growth startups or VC-backed companies
- VC, founder office, or startup operations background
- Strong work ethic and willingness to operate at high intensity
- Experience using AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or automation platforms
- Ability to build internal workflows and automations using low-code tools
- Technical aptitude or light coding background
- Strong execution orientation
- Experience wearing multiple hats in startup environments
- Comfortable balancing strategy and execution simultaneously
- Evidence of entrepreneurial ambition
- Top-tier university background
- Experience in fintech, AI, compliance, or operations-heavy environments
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid prioritization changes
Responsibilities
- Work directly with the CEO across strategic and operational initiatives
- Own day-to-day execution across GTM, marketing, recruiting, and company operations
- Manage founder priorities, scheduling, follow-ups, and execution workflows
- Support sales and marketing initiatives including pricing, decks, conferences, outbound efforts, and customer operations
- Build and improve internal operational systems and workflows
- Create internal AI automations and workflows using tools like Claude, n8n, and low-code/no-code automation platforms
- Help coordinate hiring and recruiting operations as the company scales
- Operate across highly ambiguous environments with minimal structure
- Drive projects independently from idea to execution
- Support leadership in solving operational bottlenecks across the organization
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, GTM, and leadership teams
- Operate with extreme ownership inside a fast-moving startup environment
- Handle both strategic work and highly tactical execution
Benefits
- Competitive equity package
- Direct exposure to company leadership and founder decision-making
- Broad ownership across operations, GTM, recruiting, and strategy
- Opportunity to help scale a high-growth AI infrastructure company
- Hands-on startup operating experience
- Exposure to enterprise AI and fintech infrastructure problems
- Fast career growth and founder-level learning opportunities
- Backed by leading venture investors including Y Combinator and Cherry Ventures
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
