Chief of Staff

About the role

The will work directly alongside the founder and Managing Partner to provide meaningful leverage across all aspects of the firm's operations. This role owns the critical responsibilities of ensuring the most important strategic initiatives move forward on schedule and with high quality execution. The hire will act as a force multiplier, taking complex priorities and turning them into tangible, completed outcomes without constant oversight. You will translate the founder's vision into actionable plans and manage the end-to-end follow-through required to deliver results consistently. This position serves as the primary thought partner and operational backbone for the leadership team, bridging strategy and execution. The role is designed to be AI-native from the start, requiring the hire to leverage automation and modern tools to eliminate routine work and focus on high-level impact. You will become an indispensable extension of the leadership team, building a deep and lasting partnership that evolves with the firm.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Act as a key point of leverage for the Founder and Managing Partner, handling a wide range of responsibilities to extend their capacity and impact across the organization.
• Identify the few critical priorities that demand immediate attention and drive them to completion, ensuring the firm's most important projects advance with timeliness and precision.
• Serve as a forcing function for decision-making, clearly surfacing choices, placing questions in front of the right owners, and pressing for resolution until progress is achieved.
• Own comprehensive follow-through from initial capture to final execution, tracking action items across stakeholders and closing every loop without requiring reminders or escalation.
• Represent the CEO in front of internal teams and external stakeholders, managing communications in meetings, email correspondence, and calls to ensure preparedness and seamless follow-up.
• Synthesize the constant flow of information into concise, actionable insights for the leadership team, highlighting only what requires attention or decision-making.
• Stand in for the CEO during board meetings and portfolio company engagements, safeguarding the momentum of high-priority initiatives and strategic objectives.
• Partner closely with Atomic's executives to maintain alignment across the leadership group, ensuring unified direction and coordinated execution on all priorities.
• Act as a trusted liaison with the portfolio, external partners, and sensitive stakeholders, handling confidential matters with complete discretion and professionalism.
• Leverage AI-native tools and automation to offload repetitive tasks, continually optimizing personal workflows to focus on strategic, high-leverage activities.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience operating at high velocity and high trust within ambitious environments such as startups, consulting, banking, or investing, where reliability is critical.
• A proven track record as a chief of staff, operator, founder, or senior role in fast-paced settings where ownership and execution are paramount.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex situations into clear, concise messages for any audience.
• Highly organized mindset and the capacity to impose structure on ambiguity, ensuring that critical tasks never fall through the cracks and teams can operate efficiently.
• Action-oriented decision-making instincts, focusing on identifying the vital few activities that move the needle and clearing obstacles to rapid progress.
• Genuine curiosity and humility, with a habit of asking insightful questions, listening actively, and understanding context before taking action.
• Low ego and zero tolerance for drama, prioritizing outcomes over personal credit and remaining steady under pressure with a straightforward, trustworthy demeanor.
• High trust and range, capable of handling the most sensitive information while fluidly transitioning between board-level strategy, operational problem-solving, and urgent execution.
• An AI-native approach to work, already using modern tools to automate routine tasks and continuously expanding personal effectiveness through technology.
• Willingness to embrace evolving responsibilities where the role itself grows and changes, ensuring that the scope of impact increases significantly over time.