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About the Role

The Chief of Staff to the CEO is a high-trust, high-agency role responsible for architecting the operational backbone that enables company scale. This role involves deep engagement in the day-to-day business, translating founder intent into execution, tracking progress, and removing bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an extension of the CEO, translating strategy into trackable initiatives and driving cross-functional alignment.
• Architect and systematize operating functions including finance, legal, compliance, hiring, and ops, ensuring systems are hyper-growth ready and audit-ready.
• Support the commercial engine by structuring Design Partner relationships, defining ICPs, managing GTM cadences, and translating customer discovery into product direction.
• Own the capital and narrative layer, synthesizing market signals, preparing board and investor materials, and orchestrating fundraising processes.
• Build and lead early-stage teams, acting as interim manager until a domain owner is recruited.

Requirements

• 10+ years in a high-execution role (Engineering, Technical Program Management, Product, or Strategy) with a proven track record driving complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong technical fluency to engage credibly with engineers and partner CTOs, represent the product externally, and identify technical growth opportunities.
• Demonstrated experience building or scaling business operations (finance, legal, compliance, hiring) in a high-growth startup environment.
• Track record supporting or leading fundraising end-to-end, including data rooms, decks, investor narratives, and diligence management.
• Experience structuring commercial partnerships, including LOIs, ICPs, success criteria, and translating customer discovery into product direction.
• Comfort pressure-testing executive thinking in high-stakes settings, surfacing blind spots and challenging assumptions constructively.
• Proven ability to design recruiting engines and hiring bars that raise team quality; willingness to act as interim leader for new functions.
• Hands-on with automation tooling and AI agents, with a default instinct to eliminate operational drag through systems.
• Builder's mentality with the ability to design for 100x scale from day one.

Skills

• Operational execution
• Strategic thinking
• Cross-functional alignment
• Systematization of business operations
• Commercial partnership structuring
• Go-to-market strategy
• Customer discovery translation
• Financial modeling
• Investor relations
• Fundraising orchestration
• Team building
• Recruiting
• Automation tooling
• AI agents

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years

About the Company

• Sapiom builds the financial payments infrastructure for the machine economy, enabling AI agents to transact safely with real-world services.
• The company processes every dollar spent, policy decision navigated, and risk signal generated by AI agents.
• Sapiom has a world-class team with deep payments and infrastructure DNA, building the operating system for machines.
• The company is backed by a $15.75M investment from Accel, Menlo, and Anthropic.