Chief of Staff

Some of the most common diseases are still treated with blunt instruments: pills or injections that hit your whole body with significant side-effects. We're building something truly different.

Eligo reprograms the bacteria that already live on your body to fix the problem at its source - a genuinely new class of medicine, never done in people before. We just crossed from the lab into our first tests in humans: the moment a platform stops being a promise and starts becoming a drug. This is a very exciting time for the company.

We're 30 international and passionate people (we call ourselves Eligonauts), in Paris. We’re back by top tier investors. Our science is word-class: 2 foundational Nature Biotech, 1 Nature in 2024, 1 Science Translational Medicine 2 weeks ago, cited over 4000 times. Our IP is rock solid with 75 issued patents. And most importantly, 

The next two years - first therapeutic clinical data, the next raise, partnerships - will decide whether we become the company that defines this field.

You're the engine room. You'll own three things.

• How the company runs and how it scales. You're the guardian and the improver of our operating system: the cadence, the foresight, and the quality bar that let a leadership team get ahead of its problems instead of chasing them. You also run the operational backbone in real life -  finance and HR ops (budget, investor reporting, financial reporting, insurance), corporate and legal ops (board prep, ESOP, contracts, grants liaison), internal ops (IT, facilities, procurement, accounting). Anything that has to actually happen for a clinical biotech to operate, you own or you make sure happens — and you hunt the friction that slows us down, cutting latency wherever it appears. As we mature into a clinical company, you're the person who makes sure the wheels stay on and the machine speeds up.

• Making the critical moments land - and sharpening the hard calls. Board, partners, investors, conferences, internal & external comms - prep starts early, the thinking is structured, the standard is high. You’ll be the guardian of making sure the prep starts way ahead of time, and manage the process and internal stakeholders to enable flawless execution. On the leadership team's proposals, you'll be critical to pressure-tests them before they leave the room.
• Special projects. Pipeline positioning, comp framework, JPM prep, leading our next grant and non-dilutive funding, making us an AI-native company, company offsite - the work that doesn't have a home anywhere else yet and critically matters.

If you're done watching other people build, this is the inside seat. You'll see how the rouages of a biotech actually turn - and you'll be the one tightening them.

I'll give you trust, autonomy, and real brainstorming time. I expect grit, proactivity, humility, and excellence in return.

-> Here is an article on what an excellent CoS works like.

• Extremely ambitious and mission motivated
• Confident enough to give me feedback and push back hard
• Learns quickly and can teach themself anything; executes quickly
• Humble, low ego, high EQ and pragmatic
• Strong, logical thinker and writer
• Obsessively organized, with an extremely high quality bar - higher than mine
• Curious and who likes to question under the surface and improve systems and processes
• Great at the details, energized by hands-on work
• Scientifically fluent (nice to have)

• Running the operational machinery - HR, IT, invoicing, vendor and contract pipeline with our lawyers, monthly close with our accountant, facilities - so the company actually works, every week
• Owning the cadence of quarterly financial investor updates, grant administration, non-dilutive reporting
• Maintaining the friction log - every recurring slowdown identified, triaged, killed
• Sitting with each leader monthly to find what's eating their time, and removing it
• Circling with the team to see what deliverables I owe them 
• Identifying and extinguishing fires 
• Helping improve our team comms and organization
• Sitting in for me in meetings
• Starting board prep six weeks out - and JPM, the next raise, the big partner conversations

This role is based in Paris, France. No specific background is strictly necessary, but you should be confident that you can jump in and provide value ASAP!