Chief of Staff

San Francisco, United States
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

We are looking for a Chief of Staff with 2-4 years of operating experience to join as the first internal operations hire at a rapidly scaling AI company ($40M+ run rate, on track to $100M+ by Q3). You'll work directly with the CEO and CTO to drive the company's highest-priority strategic initiatives — from scaling the team from 8 to 25 people, to owning company financials, to leading new customer and vertical expansions.

What will you be doing?

  • Owning and driving the hiring process as the company scales from ~8 to 20-25 people over the next 6-8 months

  • Managing company financials, P&L, costs, margins, and running weekly syncs on business performance

  • Leading high-leverage strategic projects (new customer expansions, new vertical launches, research initiatives) as they emerge week to week

  • Building internal operational systems and processes from scratch — you're the first person in this function

  • Working cross-functionally across engineering, research, and customer-facing teams to unblock priorities

Key Requirements

  • 2-4 years of operating experience — ideally at an early-stage startup or in management consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG)

  • Strong generalist problem solver with extreme ownership — can take ambiguous problems and drive them to completion autonomously

  • Comfortable using coding agents and AI tools to solve problems (excitement matters more than prior experience)

  • No short tenures — 1-year stints are a dealbreaker; must demonstrate staying power and commitment

  • Must be full-time in-person in San Francisco (relocation support available)

About Halluminate

Data and RL environments to automate knowledge work

Required skills

AI/ML Tools
Coding Agents
Python
Excel
PowerPoint

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Job details

Salary

$180,000 - $225,000

Equity

0.15% - 0.25%

Location

San Francisco, United States

Experience

2+ years

Company

NameHalluminate
IndustryB2B
Team Size5

Funding

Total raised

$530K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
AAntigravity Capital

Founders

SS

Suchintan Singh

Research Lead

Jerry Wu

Jerry Wu

LinkedIn
Wyatt Marshall

Wyatt Marshall

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.