Chief of Staff - Robotics

At Ocean Infinity, we're using technology to transform operations at sea, making them safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.

We're a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and challengers who believe there is always a better way. If you're ambitious, collaborative, and excited by the opportunity to create meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.

Join us and help shape the future.

Ocean Infinity is seeking a Chief of Staff to the President of Robotics, to act as a true strategic partner as we build a dedicated Robotics business unit for the future while maintaining focus on delivery today. The role will help connect strategy to execution across asset delivery, vessel/payload operations, engineering, remote operations centres, HSEQ, and facilities, ensuring the unit has the clarity, rhythm, insight and follow-through needed to deliver safely, reliably and at pace.

This is a unique opportunity to be involved from the beginning in shaping a capability that is critical to Ocean Infinity’s future success. The Robotics business unit brings clearer ownership to our robotic assets and the standards, systems and support around them, so that assets are designed, built, maintained, available and ready for deployment. Success in this role requires exceptional judgement, strong technical and commercial curiosity, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to challenge norms, simplify complexity and drive change in an environment where we are often doing things for the first time.

What will you do:

Strategic Alignment & Business Priority Delivery

• Support the President in shaping and translating Robotics strategic priorities into clear workstreams, milestones and deliverables.
• Maintain an integrated view of Robotics priorities across asset delivery, vessel/payload operations, engineering, remote operations centres, HSEQ, and facilities.
• Track progress of major initiatives, identify interdependencies, risks and decisions, and ensure leaders remain accountable for actions and timelines.
• Support scenario planning, operating model development, strategic workshops and annual planning cycles for the Robotics unit.

Acting as a Strategic Integrator & Thought Partner

• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the President, providing insight, challenge and clarity to support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Connect insight across Robotics and the wider business, ensuring the President has visibility of the information that matters most across asset readiness, operational performance, engineering delivery and risk.
• Pre-empt issues, structure options and recommendations, and help the unit make clear choices in ambiguous or first-time situations.

Asset Readiness, Operating Rhythm & Delivery Focus

• Maintain visibility of asset readiness, operational performance, engineering delivery, delivery risks and improvement priorities.
• Help establish the operating rhythm across asset delivery, vessel/payload operations, engineering, remote operations centres, HSEQ and facilities.
• Ensure delivery reviews surface the right risks, decisions, dependencies and actions, and that follow-through is clear.
• Support the President in balancing future Robotics capability-building with operational delivery today.

Meeting & Operating Rhythm Facilitation

• Own the cadence for Robotics leadership meetings, cross-functional working groups and decision forums.
• Plan agendas, manage pre-read creation, ensure sessions are purposeful, and track outcomes and follow-up actions.

Internal Communication & Narrative Ownership

• Draft internal communications, presentations and messaging on behalf of the President for the Robotics unit.
• Prepare talking points, briefing notes and updates to ensure consistent, clear communication across Robotics and the wider organisation.
• Help shape the narrative around the Robotics unit’s purpose, progress and priorities, particularly as the business unit is established and evolves.

Operational Excellence & Executive Support

• Ensure the President’s time and focus are directed toward the highest-value priorities by filtering, organising and prioritising requests.
• Prepare briefing packs, background summaries and insight reports for key meetings, site visits, vessel visits and business reviews.
• Travel with the President where helpful, especially early in the role, to build shared context, see what he sees, and understand how the unit operates in practice.
• Drive continuous improvement across Robotics, helping teams challenge existing ways of working and build practical, scalable approaches.

Who you are:

You are bold, honest and passionate, with the judgement and curiosity to operate across technical, operational and commercial topics. You are comfortable with ambiguity and energised by building something new. You challenge constructively, simplify complexity, and create clarity for others. You combine exemplary behaviours with leadership potential, and you understand that success in this role depends as much on trust, judgement and follow-through as it does on process.