Founding Chief of Staff / BizOps | AI Start-up | New York City | Up to $190K + Equity

If your ideal job comes with a tidy brief and a clearly defined lane, this one will frustrate you. If you want to sit with the founders of a fast-growing AI company, pick up the hardest unowned problems in the business and drive them all the way to a result, keep reading.

An early-stage AI infrastructure company in New York City is hiring its first Chief of Staff / BizOps lead. Base salary up to $190K plus meaningful equity. Five days a week in person at its New York City office.

Why this company

The business builds the data layer that AI agents use to run go-to-market work: finding, checking and acting on information about companies and buyers across dozens of data sources through a single connection, rather than a stack of separate tools. Its customers work through coding agents instead of a traditional dashboard.

• Revenue growing at roughly 100% month on month
• Enterprise customers finding the product on their own and ramping their spend quickly
• Backed by respected New York and West Coast investors and well-known operator angels
• A small, senior founding team out of top-tier tech companies, with engineering degrees from leading universities
• Hiring for this seat and for growth at the same time, so you arrive right at the inflection point

The team is still small. Whoever takes this seat will shape how the company runs as it scales.

What you will actually do

You will work alongside the founders as their operating partner.

• Owning the messiest problems. When something matters and nobody owns it, it becomes yours, from scoping through to the result.
• Bringing structure to strategy and planning. Turning the founders' priorities into plans with owners, milestones and metrics.
• Running cross-functional initiatives. Keeping a fast-moving team aligned and accountable.
• Building the operating cadence. Reporting, company metrics, planning rhythms and hiring support that hold up as headcount grows.
• Leading special projects. Pricing, partnerships, go-to-market experiments and process design.
• Writing it down. Clear memos that let a small team move quickly without losing the thread.

What they want

There are two routes in:

• Top-tier consulting plus real start-up execution: McKinsey, BCG, Bain or a comparable firm, followed by time at an early-stage company where you built and shipped things, not just slides
• Or a big-tech operator who went early: strategy, operations or BizOps at a leading consumer or marketplace tech company, followed by hands-on early-stage start-up work

Whichever route you took:

• Founder-level ownership: you take on the ambiguous problem without waiting to be asked and finish what you start
• Operational rigour: you turn loose ideas into plans, metrics and follow-through
• Clear, structured thinking and writing
• Comfort with pace: early-stage, fully in person and intense

Big pluses

• Prior BizOps, Chief of Staff or operator experience at an early-stage start-up
• Real technical curiosity about AI agents, APIs and data products
• Experience working directly with founders

What they do not want

• Pure consultants with no hands-on execution or start-up grit
• People who need a defined mandate
• Slide-makers rather than builders
• Remote or hybrid seekers: this is five days a week in person in New York City
• Big company process lovers
• Anyone needing a new visa sponsorship: H-1B transfer, TN and E-3 holders can be considered

The package

• Base salary up to $190K, depending on experience
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing AI company
• A founding-level seat working directly with the founders
• A quick, decisive hiring process with fast feedback

How to apply

Apply with your resume. To stand out, add a short note on the most ambiguous problem you have owned from start to finish: what it was, what you did and what changed because of it.

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