Chief of Staff

The role

The Chief of Staff works directly with the CEO to drive strategic initiatives across engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations. This role involves translating company priorities into operating plans and building systems to improve execution as the company scales.

What you will do

• Drive strategic initiatives for the CEO from problem definition through execution
• Connect engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations teams to align priorities
• Turn executive priorities into workstreams, owners, timelines, and decision points
• Identify and resolve company blocks, misalignments, or resource issues
• Support company planning, leadership meetings, board and investor materials, and operating reviews
• Partner with commercial and product leaders on customer commitments and product direction
• Partner with finance and legal on contracts, approvals, budgets, procurement, and compliance
• Build lightweight processes to improve execution
• Take on special projects without a clear functional home

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a high-performance operating environment such as an early-stage startup, strategy / business operations role, management consulting, investing, product operations, or a found
• Exceptional judgment, organization, and follow-through in ambiguous situations
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional work across technical, commercial, financial, legal, or operational stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication
• High ownership
• Strong analytical ability and comfort working with financial, operational, customer, and product information
• Low ego and high trustworthiness
• Bias to action, resourcefulness, and comfort building structure where none exists
• Technical curiosity and the ability to earn credibility with engineers and scientists

About the company

Matter Intelligence is building the future of vision AI by pairing a sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model. The team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL and designed sensors for U.S. Defense.