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Chief Of Staff - Open Cosmos This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Open Cosmos and our selected partners use cookies and similar technologies (together “cookies”) that are necessary to present this website, and to ensure you get the best experience of it. If you consent to it, we will also use cookies for analytics purposes. See our Cookie Policy to read more about the cookies we set. You can withdraw and manage your consent at any time, by clicking “Manage cookies” at the bottom of each website page. Accept all cookies Decline all non-necessary cookies Cookie preferences Select which cookies you accept On this site, we always set cookies that are strictly necessary, meaning they are necessary for the site to function properly. If you consent to it, we will also set other types of cookies. You can provide or withdraw your consent to the different types of cookies using the toggles below. 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We design, build and operate satellites that help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges — from climate monitoring to connectivity. We’re scaling rapidly across Europe and beyond, and with that growth comes increasing complexity, opportunity, and ambition. To support this next chapter, we’re hiring a Chief of Staff to the CEO — a high-trust, high-impact role at the very centre of the organisation. This is not a traditional support role. As Chief of Staff, you’ll be the CEO’s strategic execution partner and operational extension, ensuring that Open Cosmos’ priorities are translated into action — and delivered with pace, clarity and discipline. For the first 6 months, you’ll shadow the CEO closely, building deep context, understanding decision-making at the highest level, and helping to drive the business forward. What You’ll be doing Acting as the CEO’s trusted deputy Representing the CEO in selected internal and external forums Driving follow-through on key decisions and commitments Protecting the CEO’s focus on the highest-impact priorities Translating company strategy into clear, actionable priorities Driving the most critical cross-functional initiatives Identifying risks, misalignment and execution bottlenecks — and resolve them Lead the CEO Office and partner closely with the CEO’s EA Establishing a strong operating rhythm across executive forums, board cycles and planning cadences Aligning strategy, communications and CEO-led initiatives into one coherent model Bringing together complex reporting into clear executive and board-level insight What You’ll Bring Strong understanding of how strategy translates into execution in a complex, scaling international business Exceptional ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguity Excellent analytical capability and experience synthesising business performance data Strong commercial judgement and organisational awareness Confident engaging and influencing senior leaders and board-level stakeholders Fluent English and Spanish; additional languages are a plus Unquestionable integrity and discretion Comfortable operating at pace and intensity and travelling regularly For this role you can be based in any of our locations To apply, you must have the legal right to work in your chosen location. Please submit your application and CV in English Why Open Cosmos? Work at the cutting edge of space technology with customers around the globe. A mission-driven company making space accessible to help solve real-world challenges. A diverse, ambitious, and supportive team. Division Exec Department EXEC Locations Harwell, UK, Athens, Greece, Barcelona, Spain, Porto, Portugal, Tenerife, Open Cosmos Balears (Mallorca) Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time About Open Cosmos Open Cosmos is dedicated to solving customer problems with insights from space. Whether this is monitoring agricultural yields, assessing the damage of oil spills or providing navigation solutions, we believe that data from satellites is the most effective and sustainable way of achieving this. Apply for this job Exec · EXEC · Multiple locations · Hybrid Chief Of Staff Loading application form Career site Data & privacy Manage cookies Employee login Candidate Connect login Already working at Open Cosmos? 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