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The Chief of Staff partners with the CEO and executive team to translate company priorities into action. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional initiatives, preparing executive and board materials, managing operating rhythms and KPIs, conducting strategic research and analysis, resolving organizational bottlenecks, prioritizing resources, and ensuring initiatives reach measurable outcomes. The role requires high ownership, strong judgment, analytical ability, executive communication, and comfort working onsite in a fast-paced startup environment.

Senior operational leader supporting Financial Advisors and teams by managing business operations, overseeing support staff, coordinating strategic initiatives, driving client service and communications, aiding business development, and integrating firm services to scale advisor practices.

Leads the pediatric orthopedics department as its administrative and clinical liaison, overseeing governance, physician workforce activities, budgets, daily operations, quality improvement, compliance, education, research, and interdisciplinary care. Represents medical staff to executive leadership and hospital boards, supports strategic growth and operational excellence, addresses patient concerns, and maintains a limited personal surgical practice. Requires board-certified pediatric orthopedic or spine surgical expertise, extensive clinical experience, and progressive physician leadership.

Drives major priorities and cross-functional projects across ActAI’s businesses from decision through execution. Identifies and solves business problems, tracks performance and ownership, leads expansion and organizational initiatives, analyzes markets and financials, and coordinates across product, technology, finance, people, and operations.

Drive the CEO’s highest-priority initiatives, prepare executive and board communications, manage leadership cadence and follow-through, and lead ambiguous strategic projects. The role coordinates across Growth, Product, Engineering, Programs, and Operations, supports national-security-related engagements, and helps with metrics, planning, partnerships, fundraising, hiring, and critical customer situations.

Chief of Staff partnering with the CEO and senior leadership to own cross-functional initiatives, convert ambiguity into structured workstreams, improve leadership operating rhythms, track decisions and accountability, identify systemic bottlenecks, and prepare executive-ready analysis and materials. The role requires sound judgment, discretion, strong writing, and the ability to build operating structure in a fast-scaling, operationally complex services business.

Serve as the CEO’s strategic thought partner and cross-functional operator. Lead ambiguous special projects, coordinate initiatives across engineering, go-to-market, finance, and people teams, maintain leadership operating cadence, improve internal processes, and prepare board and investor materials. The role also tracks priorities, ensures follow-through, supports executive decision-making, and helps scale the company’s operating systems.

Partners with the CEO and executive team to shape corporate strategy and operationalize priorities across the organization. Leads market and competitive analysis, annual strategy, KPI monitoring, executive meeting cadence, board and investor preparation, and cross-functional initiatives. Acts as connective tissue across Product, Sales, Engineering, Operations, Government Affairs, and Finance while managing ambiguous, sensitive projects and ensuring leadership alignment and follow-through.

Act as the founders' right hand to operationalize AI: prototype internal AI workflows, turn experiments into company-wide programs, run executive cadence and OKRs, unblock cross-functional projects, prepare strategic briefs, enforce responsible AI guardrails, and drive exit-readiness and organizational health.

Leads the President’s Office and serves as Chief of Staff, overseeing presidential initiatives, executive communications, special events, administrative operations, enterprise risk management, reporting, and cross-functional Cabinet coordination. Provides strategic analysis, manages high-profile institutional projects, supports governance and Board relations, represents the President externally, and ensures compliance, executive follow-through, and advancement of university priorities.

Senior Chief of Staff partnering with the CTO to represent him in executive forums, run operating rhythms, lead strategic initiatives, synchronize engineering/product/data strategy (especially AI), produce C‑suite materials, and ensure follow-through across a global organization. Requires judgement to act with CTO authority, build senior relationships, and drive high‑impact outcomes.

Leads technology strategy, IRAD efforts, technical solutioning, system architecture, and competitive capture support for defense programs. Develops business cases and proposals, coordinates cross-organization technical collaboration, identifies emerging capabilities and market opportunities, promotes technology reuse and modular architectures, and oversees intellectual property and data-rights stewardship. Requires extensive systems architecture experience, technical leadership, proposal development expertise, and an active DoD Secret clearance.

Chief of Staff partnering with the CEO and CCO to drive high-priority commercial initiatives and accelerate U.S. growth. Responsibilities include market strategy, enterprise sales, strategic accounts, partnerships, pricing, product marketing, customer expansion, founder leverage, cross-functional problem solving, and building commercial operating cadences, metrics, feedback loops, and repeatable processes.

Serves as strategic partner to the Vice President for Enrollment Management, coordinating division operations, budgets, vendors, communications, board relations, policies, and high-priority initiatives. Advises senior leadership, synthesizes complex information, supports strategic planning and organizational change, develops leaders, manages stakeholder relationships, and advances inclusive excellence, engagement, and continuous improvement across the division.

Supports Managing Partners by prioritizing opportunities and concerns, preparing meeting materials, drafting proposals and memos, liaising with internal and client teams, tracking deliverables and deadlines, leading strategic planning, supporting operational protocols, and managing relationships with stakeholders, partners, and vendors. The role requires public affairs and communications expertise, strong judgment, discretion, project execution, and budget management.

Serve as a strategic advisor and operational partner to the CEO, driving executive operating cadence, cross-functional strategy execution, transformation initiatives, and executive communications. Lead enterprise initiatives, develop executive materials and dashboards, remove execution barriers, and implement AI-enabled workflows to increase CEO leverage and organizational alignment.

Serve as the COO’s execution partner, addressing high-priority operational gaps across the company. Build hiring, onboarding, internal tooling, automation, AI-assisted workflows, reporting, and cross-functional processes. Maintain visibility into company priorities and dependencies, drive strategic initiatives to completion, and create systems that reduce manual work. The role requires broad startup operations experience, strong communication, resourcefulness, and comfort working in-office in Brooklyn.

Leads the Superintendent’s executive operations, advises district leadership, and drives enterprise-wide strategic initiatives. Oversees performance management, data governance, accountability systems, Board governance processes, executive communications, and a strategic projects team. Aligns departments, removes implementation barriers, manages organizational transformation, and establishes systems to achieve district priorities and improved student outcomes.

The Chief of Staff will support the Co-Founder by driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with executive leaders, and ensuring high execution speed in various tasks across the organization.

Serve as the System CFO's chief advisor and senior operational leader for System Finance. Establish governance, align priorities across finance functions, translate strategy into executable initiatives, prepare executive and Board materials, lead special projects, and develop finance leadership to drive organizational performance and disciplined execution.

Own cross-functional Operations programs from scope through completion, building integrated schedules, program controls, operating cadences, reporting, and accountability systems. Lead COO-sponsored initiatives, manage risks and dependencies, coordinate regulatory, government, supply chain, procurement, and manufacturing commitments, and drive executive alignment. Establish scalable program-management infrastructure in an ambiguous, rapidly growing industrial environment while ensuring commitments are completed and operational processes evolve effectively.

Own business operations coordination across finance, people operations, administration, vendors, and AI-enabled workflows. Manage inbound triage, pipeline hygiene, customer follow-through, investor updates, PR and event logistics, and customer-facing sales collateral. Coordinate fractional teams and hold senior leaders accountable without direct authority. The role is full-time and in-person in San Francisco, supporting an early-stage plant intelligence startup.

Work directly with the CEO to drive ambiguous, high-priority initiatives to completion across operations, customer relationships, recruiting, finance, legal, strategy, vendors, and special projects. The role will establish lightweight systems, resolve bottlenecks, coordinate stakeholders, support hiring and customer engagement, translate technical context, and ensure critical company priorities do not fall through the cracks.

The Chief of Staff will partner with the co-founder and leadership team to scale internal operations across a rapidly growing philanthropic organization. Responsibilities include running OKRs, KPI dashboards, operating rhythms, leadership meetings, decision-making processes, internal systems, AI-enabled tooling, communication norms, knowledge management, strategic initiatives, and occasional partner support. The role requires proactive problem-solving, strong execution, clear communication, comfort with ambiguity, and approximately seven or more years of relevant experience.

Supports the VP and Head of A320 VSM with executive scheduling, decision-making materials, information analysis, meeting preparation, stakeholder coordination, action-plan follow-up, document management, travel, and events. The role manages confidential information, coordinates cross-functional and international interfaces, supports management teams, and helps prioritize executive workload. It requires strong organization, communication, analytical, problem-solving, and time-management skills in a complex, multicultural, on-site environment.