Chief of Staff - Robotics

Meeting & Operating Rhythm Facilitation

• Own the cadence for Robotics leadership meetings, cross-functional working groups, and decision forums.
• Plan agendas, manage pre-read creation, ensure sessions are purposeful, and track outcomes and follow-up actions.

Internal Communication & Narrative Ownership

• Draft internal communications, presentations, and messaging on behalf of the President for the Robotics unit.
• Prepare talking points, briefing notes, and updates to ensure consistent, clear communication across Robotics and the wider organisation.
• Help shape the narrative around the Robotics unit’s purpose, progress, and priorities, particularly as the business unit is established and evolves.

Operational Excellence & Executive Support

• Ensure the President’s time and focus are directed toward the highest-value priorities by filtering, organising, and prioritising requests.
• Prepare briefing packs, background summaries, and insight reports for key meetings, site visits, vessel visits, and business reviews.
• Travel with the President where helpful, especially early in the role, to build shared context, see what he sees, and understand how the unit operates in practice.
• Drive continuous improvement across Robotics, helping teams challenge existing ways of working and build practical, scalable approaches.

Who you are:

You are bold, honest, and passionate, with the judgement and curiosity to operate across technical, operational, and commercial topics. You are comfortable with ambiguity and energised by building something new. You challenge constructively, simplify complexity, and create clarity for others. You combine exemplary behaviours with leadership potential, and you understand that success in this role depends as much on trust, judgement, and follow-through as it does on process.

What we expect:

Experience and Skills Required:

• Experience in strategy, transformation, consulting, operations, engineering, programme delivery, PMO, or Chief of Staff type roles.
• Experience in, or strong exposure to, an engineering and/or operating business.
• Ability to translate high-level strategy into structured, sequenced, and actionable plans.
• Strong business acumen and excellent judgement in ambiguous, fast-moving, or first-time situations.
• Strong technical and commercial curiosity, with the ability to understand complex operational issues without needing to be the technical expert.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including narrative creation and executive-level messaging.
• Strong facilitation skills; able to run effective meetings that create clarity, surface trade-offs, and drive decisions.
• High analytical capability: able to distil insight from complex or incomplete data and turn it into practical recommendations.
• High emotional intelligence and stakeholder management, with the ability to build trusted relationships at all levels.
• Calm under pressure and able to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Ability to manage sensitive information with discretion and confidentiality.

Desirable:

• Experience supporting senior executives directly.
• Background in organisational transformation, operating model development, or change programmes.
• Exposure to marine, robotics, autonomous systems, asset-heavy, industrial, energy, infrastructure, or defence environments.
• Experience working with OKRs, KPIs, operational performance measures, or similar performance frameworks.
• Familiarity with project management tools, organisational planning methods, or business performance reporting.

Leadership Expectations:

In your role as a leader at Ocean Infinity, you will be expected to exemplify the leadership behaviours that drive our vision and create lasting impact. Based on our Leadership Charter, here’s what we expect from you as a leader:

• Strategic horizon scanning and customer sense-making: You support Ocean Infinity’s overall strategy (commercial, market, client, brand, and people), identify opportunities while adapting to disruptors and trends; and drive value, quality, profitability, and sustainable growth for Ocean Infinity.
• Leadership impact across the organisation and team: You generate and share a strategic vision that others can aspire and commit to; embrace new ways of working and provide clarity during challenges and ambiguous situations, and support the team to disrupt, improve, and evolve when necessary.
• Leading with integrity and managing risk: You act as a role model, doing what is right for Ocean Infinity, as a necessary part of Ocean Infinity’s success; set and demonstrate high standards of integrity when navigating the politics of situations and resistance along with appropriate risk taking when solving complex problems.
• Collaboration with peers and across the organisation: You lead open and meaningful conversations and sustain long-term relationships to drive a culture of trust, diversity, collaboration, and high performance that maximises value for Ocean Infinity, its clients, and its people.
• Delivering transformation and outcomes: You lead and collaborate with stakeholders to champion change, making dynamic decisions that inspire impactful actions; deliver on promised and transformational outcomes, ensuring Ocean Infinity takes focused steps on things which matter the most for the business.
• Effective decision-making: You leverage intelligent data insights to understand issues at hand to make timely decisions (even in ambiguous circumstances); recognising the ongoing nature of sense-making, communicating and translating strategy into actionable roadmaps that ensure Ocean Infinity swiftly delivers against its strategic plans.

By bringing these leadership behaviours to life, you will not only help shape Ocean Infinity’s success but also create an inspiring and inclusive environment where innovation thrives and teams succeed.

Salary for this position:

Up to £120,000 per annum