About Sapiom
AI agents are beginning to act on behalf of companies and users — making purchases, spinning up compute, triggering workflows, and interacting with third-party systems. But today's financial infrastructure was built for humans, not autonomous systems. Companies and developers need a way to give agents controlled access, meter actions, monetize usage, and transact across rails, without rebuilding payments, risk, and compliance internally.
Sapiom builds the financial payments infrastructure for the machine economy - autonomous spend rails that enable AI agents to transact with real-world services safely, processing every dollar spent, every policy decision navigated, and every risk signal generated.
We have assembled a world-class team with deep payments and infrastructure DNA to build the operating system for machines. Backed by a $15.75M investment from Accel, Menlo, and Anthropic, we are moving with relentless focus to deploy the economic substrate for autonomous agents.
About the Role
Chief of Staff to the CEO — a high-trust, high-agency role at the center of the company. The CEO architects the product and vision; you architect the operational backbone that lets the company scale. You'll embed deeply in the day-to-day mechanics of the business, translating founder intent into execution, tracking progress relentlessly, and removing bottlenecks before they slow the team down.
What you will do
You'll debate strategy with the CEO and drive operational execution, with the judgment and trust to speak on their behalf in high-stakes situations, internally and externally. You'll move fluidly across the business — from structuring commercial partnerships and supporting GTM motion, to driving discussion with partner CTOs and representing the product confidently with developers. You treat legal, finance, and people ops with the same rigor as a production system, build processes that are audit-ready by default, and reach for automating outcomes.. You build teams people insist on joining and hand them off once they are up and running.
Responsibilities
Serve as an extension of the CEO — translating strategy into clear, trackable initiatives, driving cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, and GTM, and ensuring key priorities move forward with speed and accountability.
Architect and systematize the company's operating functions — finance, legal, compliance, hiring, and ops — building systems designed for hyper-growth that are audit-ready by default.
Support the commercial engine by structuring Design Partner relationships, defining ICPs, managing GTM cadences, and translating customer discovery into product direction and positioning.
Own the capital and narrative layer — synthesizing market signals into a coherent story, preparing board and investor materials, and orchestrating fundraising processes end-to-end.
Build and lead early-stage teams across new functions, acting as interim manager until a world-class domain owner is recruited and the function is handed off.
Requirements
10+ years in a high-execution role — Engineering, Technical Program Management, Product, or Strategy — with a proven track record driving complex, cross-functional initiatives from idea to completion
Strong technical fluency: able to engage credibly with engineers and partner CTOs, represent the product externally, and identify technical growth opportunities
Demonstrated experience building or scaling business operations (finance, legal, compliance, hiring) in a high-growth startup environment
Track record supporting or leading fundraising end-to-end — data rooms, decks, investor narratives, and diligence management
Experience structuring commercial partnerships: LOIs, ICPs, success criteria, and translating customer discovery into product direction
Comfort pressure-testing executive thinking in high-stakes settings — surfaces blind spots and challenges assumptions constructively
Proven ability to design recruiting engines and hiring bars that raise team quality; willing to act as interim leader for new functions
Hands-on with automation tooling and AI agents — default instinct is to eliminate operational drag through systems, not headcount
Builder's mentality: designs for 100x scale from day one
Skills Required
- 10+ years in a high-execution role (Engineering, Technical Program Management, Product, or Strategy) with proven cross-functional delivery
- Strong technical fluency to engage credibly with engineers and partner CTOs
- Experience building or scaling business operations (finance, legal, compliance, hiring) in a high-growth startup
- Track record supporting or leading fundraising end-to-end (data rooms, decks, investor narratives, diligence)
- Experience structuring commercial partnerships: LOIs, ICPs, success criteria, and translating customer discovery into product direction
- Ability to pressure-test executive thinking and surface blind spots constructively in high-stakes settings
- Proven ability to design recruiting engines and hiring bars; willing to act as interim leader for new functions
- Hands-on experience with automation tooling and AI agents to eliminate operational drag
- Builder mentality: designs systems for 100x scale from day one
What We Do
Sapiom is a fintech startup building the financial infrastructure and operating system for the agentic economy. It provides the essential payment and identity rails, including KYA protocols, that enable AI agents to autonomously and securely transact with real-world digital services such as APIs, software, and compute, while abstracting the complexities of authentication, billing, and compliance for developers.
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