About the role
We are looking for a Chief of Staff with 9-10+ years of experience to serve as a strategic right-hand to the CEO at a $300M+ run-rate AI-native insurance company that is rapidly expanding into multiple new businesses. You'll take ownership of the most critical cross-functional problems, drive new growth initiatives, and position yourself to eventually own a P&L.
What will you be doing?
- Owning and driving the most critical cross-functional projects across multiple business lines — identifying bottlenecks, solving ambiguous problems, and delivering outcomes
- Serving as a thought partner to the CEO on new growth opportunities, potentially quarterbacking and launching new businesses or verticals
- Designing and scaling operating rhythms across the company — business reviews, data/insights cadences, and board storytelling
- Working directly with business unit CEOs and leaders to spot patterns, remove blockers, and accelerate growth
- Traveling 10-30% of the time to other offices and key meetings alongside the CEO
Key Requirements
- 9-10+ years of experience with a combination of a strong foundation (MBB consulting, banking, or similar demanding environment) AND operating experience at a high-growth, venture-backed startup (Series B-D stage)
- Demonstrated fast progression and high ownership — not a career coordinator or project manager
- Self-directed operator who thrives with limited direction and can work across senior stakeholders with executive presence
- AI-native mindset — actively builds tools and automations using AI, not just prompting
- Must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco (5 days in-office)
About Nirvana Insurance
Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.We’ve already proven the scale—serving thousands of fleets and more than doubling our written premiums year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 30 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.With $270+ million raised, including our Series D round in December 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.
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Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $400,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
9+ years
Funding
Total raised
$262M
Last stage
Series D
Investors
Founders
Alex Carges
Co-founder & Head of Insurance
Abhay Mitra
Co-founder
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.