
Job Description
We're looking for a Chief of Staff who is highly driven, organized, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited to join us in-person in San Francisco to help build and scale the company.
You'll work directly with the CEO and set the cadence for how the company operates. You'll own end-to-end execution on whatever needs to happen, from hiring to new initiatives, finance, hiring and day-to-day operations. We're a lean team, which means you'll make the call on what happens and how it gets done.
What you’ll do
- Own internal operations for finances, HR and more
- Run operations and handle admin work (payroll, expenses, vendor management, all the stuff that needs to get done)
- Hiring/sourcing candidates, running interviews, closing offers, onboarding new hires
- Execute new initiatives and special projects for growth, sales, marketing, and partnerships
- Support the enterprise GTM motion
- Build and automate processes and systems as we scale
This is a high-leverage role for someone who wants to be a world-class operator. You'll get your reps executing across recruiting, marketing, operations, customer development, and more. As we grow, so will the responsibilities and opportunities for this role.
Who you are
- Extremely organized, you’re able to maintain simple processes for keeping tabs on many parallel threads, and have a strong intuition for when to be scrappy vs. processized
- Comfortable with ambiguity, you don't need a playbook, you write it and figure out what needs to happen
- Founder mentality, you think and act with high ownership, building with us rather than just executing for us
- Bias towards action, you move fast, make calls with limited data, fix things in real time, and rarely get blocked
- Strong operator with startup, consulting, or investing experience, you've seen how great organizations operate and can execute at that level
- High ownership, you own outcomes, not just tasks, and feel it personally when something doesn't ship
- Bias for action and urgency, you have a visceral sense of discomfort when the ball sits in your court too long
- Highly autonomous, you make most decisions yourself, don't wait for permission, and move fast
- Strong generalist, you want to get your reps across different disciplines from recruiting to event planning to operations
- No task is beneath you, you'll update the cap table, run payroll, and take pride in optimizing tedious work
- Strong product sense and taste, you understand what makes software feel great
- Love technology and startups, you automate yourself from processes where you’re not needed, you aren’t scared of using AI tools and you love the ambiguity of startups
Interview Process
- Call with Karine (30 minutes)
- In-person, paid work trial (2 days)
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Job Details
- Category
- Business & Finance
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Posted
- Compensation
- $140,000 - $200,000 per year
About Variance
Variance is an AI software firm that creates autonomous AI agents to detect threats, automate investigations, and enforce policies across content, transactions, and conversations. It enables firms to identify hidden dangers, streamline trust and safety operations, and enforce compliance in real time. The technology uses powerful machine learning to deliver meaningful insights and proactive risk management.
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