Chief of Staff

Posted 24 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Software
The Role
High-trust Chief of Staff to the CEO who translates strategy into measurable initiatives, drives cross-functional alignment, systems for finance/legal/compliance/hiring, supports GTM and partnerships, owns fundraising and investor materials, builds early-stage teams, and automates operational processes for hyper-growth.
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About Sapiom

Sapiom is the end-to-end platform that removes barriers to ship and scale agentic products.

We unify everything an agent needs to act in the world: compute and sandboxes, memory, identity, domains and DNS, spend controls, browser automation, web search and deep research, databases, storage, queues, messaging, image generation, voice, enrichment, verification, and monitoring provisioned together as one thing, not handed over as a framework for builders to assemble themselves. Pricing is just as simple: a plan, a generous free tier, pay for what you use when you use it.

We have assembled a world-class team with deep infrastructure and payments 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 allow builders to ship and scale agentic products.

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
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The Company
10 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

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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