Chief of Staff

The Electric Plant•San Francisco, CA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Electric Plant Co. is building the world’s first plant intelligence platform: technology that decodes the electrical signals plants are already producing and turns them into actionable, hyper-local insight about the living world. We’re founded by two repeat founders, one a fifth-generation plantsman, the other a neuroscientist, and we’re venture-backed. We’re a small, fast-moving team in San Francisco working at the intersection of botany, neuroscience, AI, and climate, with our first commercial deployment on the horizon.

Requirements

Experience running business operations end to end at a small company where those functions were fractional or partially covered, not full in-house teams.
A track record coordinating people who don’t report to you, fractional or in-house, and getting them to move on a deadline.
Comfortable producing customer- or investor-facing material in someone else’s voice or a company’s institutional voice, without needing personal credit.
Real experience as a sophisticated user of AI agents or automation for operational work: specifying, evaluating, and catching failure, not necessarily building the system yourself.
Experience owning inbound triage, pipeline hygiene, or customer-facing logistics in a pre-sales or early commercial context.
Comfortable holding a founder or senior leader accountable to a deadline while keeping the relationship strong.
A history of taking on operational gaps across multiple functions rather than one specialist track, because variety is genuinely what draws you.
Vendor-, fractional-, and customer-facing day-to-day presence and credibility.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience at an early-stage (pre-Series A/seed) startup, ideally a hardware, field-services, or physical-operations-heavy business.
Background in or genuine curiosity about plant science, agriculture, or horticulture.

Responsibilities

Coordinate business operations: finance, people ops, admin, vendors, and the operational hygiene of the company.
Manage fractional finance and people leads, our controller, and AI agents for business operations.
Handle inbound response, pipeline hygiene, customer follow-through, investor updates, and PR and event logistics.
Own inbound triage, pipeline hygiene, and prospective-customer follow-through, including scheduling and prepping customer visits.
Ship investor updates on a regular cadence and handle PR and event logistics.
Turn existing sales material into shipped, professional customer-facing packages.