Chief of Staff

Matter Intelligence • San Francisco, CA

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Matter Intelligence is building the future of vision AI, combining a novel sensor with a Large World Model. The company is seeking a Chief of Staff to collaborate directly with the CEO, driving critical strategic initiatives across all departments including engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, focusing on translating company priorities into actionable plans, facilitating cross-functional alignment, identifying and resolving roadblocks, and ensuring smooth operations as the company scales. The ideal candidate is a proactive operator adept at structuring and driving ambiguous problems to completion, establishing robust systems for efficiency.

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