Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.
Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you care about defining how the new AI world consumes knowledge, this is the place for you.
We're looking for a Chief of Staff to be the right hand operator of our founders, doing what is most important for the company. You’d manage everything from company strategy to financial modeling to legal correspondence to recruiting engineers. You'll work with us everyday to make sure the company is moving as fast as we can toward a very important goal.
A killer operator with a track record of getting things done well and fast
Always available for wild projects
Balances speed and attention to detail, knowing when each matters most
Excited to wear many hats - recruiting, sales, marketing, finance, legal, and more
Care about the problem of finding high quality information and why it matters for the world
Bonus: some engineering background
Support company strategy development
Own critical business communications
Prepare board meeting decks
Run point on special projects that don't fit neatly into any one team
Plan and measure company KPIs (e.g., financial modeling, product goals)
Conduct research to inform leadership decisions
Location: This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.
Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all over the world. If you receive an offer, our team will work hard to get you a visa.
Benefits: We offer premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), fertility benefits, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.
Skills Required
- Proven track record as a high-velocity operator
- Experience supporting company strategy and running cross-functional projects
- Financial modeling and planning experience
- Strong written communications and ability to prepare board decks
- Experience recruiting engineers and partnering with hiring teams
- Ability to plan, measure, and report company KPIs and product goals
- Willingness to be highly available for urgent and varied projects
- In-person presence in San Francisco
- Some engineering background
What We Do
Exa was built with a simple goal — to organize all knowledge. After several years of heads-down research, we developed novel representation learning techniques and crawling infrastructure so that LLMs can intelligently find relevant information.
