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Job description
Compensation: $170,000–$210,000 base salary plus equity
Employment: Full-time
Main requirement: National Security knowledge
About the Role
A fast-growing space technology company is hiring a Chief of Staff to work directly with its co-founder and CEO during a critical stage of growth.
This is not an executive-assistant position or a role focused solely on developing strategy. It is a hands-on operating role for someone who can turn the CEO’s priorities into action, align teams, remove blockers and ensure important work gets completed.
You’ll work across Growth, Product, Engineering, Programs and Operations while supporting initiatives involving government customers, commercial partners, investors and the Board.
The Chief of Staff assignment is expected to last 12–24 months, with the opportunity to transition into a key leadership role within Government Growth, Operations, Product or another area aligned with your strengths and the company’s needs.
Future founders are strongly encouraged to apply.
What You’ll Do
Translate CEO priorities into clear actions, owners, deadlines and outcomes
Drive execution across high-priority, cross-functional initiatives
Prepare for leadership meetings and ensure decisions and action items receive follow-through
Keep critical projects moving while the CEO focuses on customers, fundraising and company growth
Identify blockers and determine when CEO involvement is required
Coordinate across Growth, Product, Engineering, Programs and Operations
Support alignment between commercial and government growth efforts
Connect company priorities with relevant government programs and budgets
Take ownership of urgent or ambiguous projects without a natural owner
Prepare Board presentations, executive briefings, decision materials and company communications
Gather and synthesize financial, operational, sales and company-performance information
Support fundraising, strategic partnerships, executive hiring and critical customer situations
Build processes that help the company operate effectively as it scales
What We’re Looking For
Experience working in a startup, founder-led company or genuinely high-growth environment
Demonstrated success taking ambiguous problems from idea through execution
Strong understanding of business operations and how different functions contribute to company growth
Ability to work effectively across technical, commercial and operational teams
High ownership, urgency and a strong bias toward action
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Strong judgment and the ability to work independently with senior executives
Ability to influence and create accountability without formal authority
Comfort operating through rapid change and evolving priorities
High-level understanding of U.S. government programs or business processes—or clear initiative and ability to learn them quickly
Genuine interest in becoming a future founder or functional leader
A compelling reason for wanting to join an early-stage space company and work closely with its CEO
Preferred Experience
Previous experience as a founder, Chief of Staff, startup operator or early-stage employee
Strategy and Operations or Business Operations experience
Aerospace, defense, national-security or government-market exposure
Government sales, business development, budgeting or program experience
Experience preparing Board, fundraising or investor materials
Comfort working with financial and operating metrics
Experience in both a larger organization and a scaling startup
MBA or equivalent business experience
Current or previous U.S. security clearance
Why Join?
Work directly with a founder and CEO on the company’s highest-priority initiatives
Gain exposure across growth, operations, product, fundraising and national security
Take ownership of meaningful work rather than being limited to one function
Join a growing team where individual contributions have a visible impact
Develop toward a future functional leadership position or your own company
Work on technology supporting real commercial and government space missions
Who Will Thrive Here?
You are a builder and executor who does not wait for a perfect playbook. You can take an unclear problem, create structure, bring the right people together and drive it through completion.
You are energized by rapid growth, broad responsibility and direct exposure to company-building. Most importantly, you want this role because of what you can build, learn and eventually lead—not simply because the title matches your résumé.
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Who can apply
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