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Chief of Staff | Right Hand to the CEO | Ex-MBB, IB or High-Growth Startup | AI Scale-Up
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Chief of Staff | Right Hand to the CEO | Ex-MBB, IB or High-Growth Startup | Onsite London | AI Scale-Up
Package: £115,000 - £165,000 + meaningful equity
Working model: Onsite 5 days p/w in Central London
Travel: 25-40% to client sites full expensed
Eligibility: UK work authorisation required
Required:
- 4+ years MBB / IB / high-growth startup strategy and ops, must have startup experience (Non-Negotiable)
🚨 Non-Negotiables - please only apply if you have ALL of the following 🚨
- 4+ years in management consulting (MBB), investment banking (elite boutique or bulge bracket), or strategy and operations at a high-growth startup
- Must have startup experience - comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and high autonomy
- A clear track record of rapid promotion and accelerated career growth
- Top-of-peer-group performance - strong academics, fast progression, or provably impressive achievements
- Strong analytical skills - able to dive deep into financial and operational data to drive decisions
- Senior enough to represent the CEO in high-stakes rooms - investor updates, major client meetings
- Able to work onsite 5 days a week in Central London and travel 25-40% to client sites
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🚀 Join a fast-growing AI company that's just closed a major funding round and is scaling at pace. They're using AI to transform how a huge, traditional industry operates - and already count some of the biggest enterprise names as customers. This is a rare seat right next to the founder, owning the problems that matter most as the company grows.
Role Overview
We're looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO on the most important problems bottlenecking the business. This is a backfill for the current Chief of Staff, who is being promoted internally - a real signal of the trajectory this seat offers. High ownership, high autonomy, high visibility. You'll sit at the centre of the company and move fast on whatever matters most.
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Key Responsibilities
- Identify and solve the highest-priority bottleneck facing the company at any given time, from unblocking large enterprise deals to optimising how engineering effort is allocated
- Build metrics and reporting across every team so the business becomes sharper and more data-driven as it scales
- Own and improve hiring - reduce time-to-hire, attract top talent, and partner on headcount planning
- Build repeatable processes that let the company scale revenue fast
- Stand in for the CEO in investor updates, senior client meetings, and cross-functional leadership
Nice to Have
- Ex-founder with meaningful revenue or venture funding behind you
- Technical or quantitative degree
- Experience in fast-moving, high-growth environments
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