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Chief of Staff
Build the Operating System Behind One of the World's Most Ambitious AI Companies
Location: London (Preferred), Dubai or San Francisco
Reports to: Founder & CEO
About Smart Bricks
Smart Bricks is building the intelligence layer for the world's physical economy. Every year, trillions of dollars are invested across real estate, infrastructure, energy and other real assets using fragmented systems, disconnected data and institutional knowledge trapped inside spreadsheets, PDFs and people's heads.
We're changing that. We're building an AI-native platform that enables investors, developers, governments and Fortune 500 companies to make faster, better and more explainable decisions across the entire lifecycle of physical assets—from sourcing and underwriting to due diligence, portfolio management and capital allocation.
Alongside our institutional platform, we're building a world-class Applied AI Lab that partners with leading global organisations to redesign how work gets done in the age of AI.
Our ambition isn't simply to build another software company. We're building a company designed to define how AI transforms one of the world's largest industries.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Chief of Staff to build the operating system of the company.
This isn't an Executive Assistant role.
This isn't a project management role.
This isn't an internal strategy consulting role.
This is one of the highest-leverage positions in the company.
You'll work directly with the Founder & CEO and the executive leadership team to ensure Smart Bricks operates with exceptional speed, alignment and discipline.
You'll build the systems, processes and rhythms that allow the company to scale without bureaucracy.
You'll help recruit world-class leaders.
You'll drive our most important strategic initiatives.
You'll solve whatever problem matters most that week.
If something is slowing the company down, it's your responsibility to fix it.
Your Mission
Build the operating system that enables Smart Bricks to execute faster than companies ten times our size.
Your job is simple to describe:
Increase the output of every leader in the company.
You will create leverage across the organisation by improving communication, execution, planning and decision making.
You'll ensure great ideas become reality.
What You'll Build
- Build the Company's Operating System
Design how Smart Bricks operates.
Establish:- Company planning cycles
- Quarterly OKRs
- Leadership operating cadence
- Executive meetings
- Business reviews
- Decision-making frameworks
- Internal communications
- Cross-functional planning
Create clarity across the organisation.
Remove unnecessary complexity.
Help teams focus on what matters most.
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Drive Strategic Execution
Lead the company's highest-priority initiatives.
Examples might include:- Launching new international offices.
- Scaling the Applied AI Lab.
- Building strategic partnerships.
- Enterprise customer onboarding.
- M&A and acquisition integration.
- Internal AI transformation.
- Organisational redesign.
- New product launches.
- Fundraising readiness.
You'll own projects that don't naturally belong to any one function.
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Partner With the CEO
Become an extension of the Founder.
You'll help prepare for:- Board meetings
- Investor updates
- Customer meetings
- Strategic partnerships
- Speaking engagements
- Hiring decisions
- Leadership reviews
- Fundraising
You'll ensure the CEO spends time on the highest-leverage work.
You'll often represent the CEO internally and occasionally externally.
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Build Executive Excellence
Work closely with every executive leader.
Help each function improve:- Planning
- Prioritisation
- Accountability
- Communication
- Hiring
- Execution
You'll ensure Product, Engineering, Applied AI and GTM operate as one organisation rather than independent departments.
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Build the Company
This role evolves with the business.
One month you might be helping recruit a VP.
The next you could be redesigning compensation frameworks.
The following week you could be leading due diligence for an acquisition.
You'll become one of the few people with visibility across every part of the company.
What Success Looks Like
Within your first 12 months you will have:
- Built a world-class operating cadence for the company.
- Improved the speed and quality of executive decision making.
- Successfully delivered multiple company-wide strategic initiatives.
- Built exceptional recruiting and onboarding processes for senior leaders.
- Established clear company goals and accountability frameworks.
- Significantly increased the effectiveness of the CEO and leadership team.
- Created a culture of operational excellence without creating bureaucracy.
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Who We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who loves solving complex organisational problems.
You're equally comfortable:
- Sitting in a board meeting.
- Interviewing executive candidates.
- Analysing business performance.
- Leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Writing strategy documents.
- Building operational processes.
- Making difficult decisions.
- Rolling up your sleeves to execute.
You have exceptional judgement.
You move quickly.
You thrive in ambiguity.
You naturally bring structure to chaos.
Most importantly, you're obsessed with helping ambitious organisations execute at an extraordinary level.
Ideal Background
We'd love to speak with candidates who have experience in environments such as:
- Chief of Staff to a founder or CEO at a high-growth technology company.
- Strategy & Operations leadership at an AI-native or enterprise software company.
- Founder or former founder.
- General Manager with end-to-end ownership.
- Top-tier strategy consulting with meaningful operating experience.
- Venture-backed technology companies scaling from Seed through Series B/C.
- Founder Associate or CEO Office roles with substantial responsibility.
Experience in AI, enterprise software or workflow automation is highly desirable.
We're less interested in titles than in evidence that you've built, scaled and improved organisations.
Leadership Principles
You'll thrive if you:
- Think like an owner.
- Bias toward action.
- Sweat the details without losing sight of the strategy.
- Communicate with clarity.
- Build trust quickly.
- Challenge assumptions respectfully.
- Solve problems proactively.
- Prefer execution over presentations.
- Raise the standard of everyone around you.
Why Join
Very few Chief of Staff roles offer the opportunity to help build a company from the earliest stages of its institutional journey.
This is one of them.
You'll work directly alongside the Founder and the founding executive team to shape every major decision the company makes.
You'll help recruit exceptional leaders.
You'll influence company strategy.
You'll build the operating system that enables Smart Bricks to scale globally.
Most importantly, you'll help create one of the defining AI companies of the next decade.
If you're excited by building organisations that move faster, think bigger and execute better than anyone else, we'd love to hear from you.
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