Voice AI that resolves, not transfers.
Most phone systems trap callers in menus and scripts. Vapi is the platform for deploying voice agents that know your business and can listen, adapt, and resolve in minutes.
The numbers: 1 billion calls. 1 million developers. 10x enterprise ARR growth
The customers: Amazon Ring, ServiceTitan, New York Life, Intuit, Kavak, and thousands more, from YC startups to the Fortune 500
The news: a $50M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Y Combinator, and our earlier backers. Total raised: $72M
Why We’re Hiring This Role:
Vapi is scaling fast, and the CEO's time is the company's scarcest resource. We're hiring a Chief of Staff to be a true force multiplier: someone who can take an ambiguous, high-stakes problem, run it to ground, and either solve it directly or stand up the team and process to solve it. This is not a scheduling or note-taking role. It's a role for a builder who wants to operate at the center of the company, touch every function, and grow into a broad operating leader. If you've founded something, been a founding employee, or thrived in the chaos of an early-stage company, you'll feel at home here.
What You’ll Do:
30 Day: Embed with the CEO and the leadership team. Learn the product deeply enough to speak credibly with customers and engineers, sit in on every major meeting, and build a clear map of how the company runs today: goals, metrics, open decisions, and where things are stuck. Start owning the operating cadence (leadership meetings, agendas, follow-ups) so nothing falls through the cracks.
60 Day: Take full ownership of one or two ambiguous, cross-functional problems the CEO cares about — the kind that don't have an obvious owner — and drive them to measurable outcomes. Tighten planning and reporting: get to a crisp view of company metrics and OKRs, and make sure priorities are clear and progress is visible.
90 Day: Operate as a trusted extension of the CEO. Represent them in meetings, make and communicate decisions on their behalf, and run key company processes (planning, board prep, all-hands, key hiring loops). Identify the next set of high-leverage problems and either own them or build the team to own them.
Who You Are:
A strong business generalist with a technical bent — you don't need to write production code, but you can go deep on a technical product, conduct meetings with engineers, and reason about how the product and market fit together.
You’ve either founded a company, been a founding employee, or otherwise operated with a high degree of ownership in a fast-moving environment. (Prior "Chief of Staff" experience is not required — we care about the operating instinct, not the title.)
A fast learner who can pick up an unfamiliar domain quickly and get to competence faster than seems reasonable.
Exceptionally organized. You bring order to ambiguity, track the details, and make sure things actually get done.
Comfortable owning a broad and shifting set of responsibilities. One week strategy you’re focused on strategy, the next week operations, the next week a critical hire.
Ideally, some consulting, banking, or similar structured-problem-solving background. You know how to break down a messy problem and communicate crisply to executives.
High trust, high judgment, and low ego. You're happy to do the unglamorous work and to give away the wins.
How We Work:
Build something worthy of love
Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
Commit and follow through
We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
Why not today?
We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.
Seek raw input
We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
It’s our problem
We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
Be direct and kind
We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.
Why Vapi:
Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business
Ownership culture: a large portion of our workforce is former founders
Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians
Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A
What We Offer:
Real stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
Flexible time off: take what you need
More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget
Skills Required
- Strong business generalist with a technical bent; able to engage credibly with engineers and product
- Founding experience or experience as a founding employee, or demonstrated high ownership in an early-stage company
- Fast learner who can pick up unfamiliar domains quickly and reach competence rapidly
- Exceptionally organized; able to bring order to ambiguity and ensure follow-through on actions
- Comfortable owning a broad, shifting set of responsibilities across strategy, operations, and hiring
- Ability to break down messy, ambiguous problems and communicate findings crisply to executives
- Experience with planning, reporting, OKRs, board preparation, all-hands, and hiring loops
- Structured-problem-solving background (consulting, banking, or similar)
- High judgment, high trustworthiness, low ego; willing to do unglamorous work
Vapi Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vapi and has not been reviewed or approved by Vapi.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is presented as meaningful ownership in a fast‑growing startup, with substantial grants emphasized and an explicit “ownership culture.” This positioning gives employees a real financial stake in the company’s growth.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, with additions like One Medical and Spring Health and claims of 100% employer‑paid coverage for employees in some materials. This breadth indicates strong protection for employees and families.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Everyday perks include a $10,000 annual learning budget, daily catered meals, commuter support, fitness memberships (e.g., Equinox), and quarterly offsites. Public materials also cite significant per‑employee investment beyond salary.
Vapi Insights
What We Do
Vapi lets enterprises deploy human-like voice agents in minutes. Whether you’re building a voice product or trying to handle millions of calls, Vapi’s reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs make it easy. Everyone from YC startups to Fortune 500 companies rely on Vapi because it is: Flexible: Plug in your APIs, your customer data, your models Scalable: Handle millions of calls with <500ms latency Secure: LLM guardrails, HIPAA, SOC-2 Helping enterprises over this challenge, Vapi, has raised $20 million in Series A funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Abstract Ventures, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz.
