Eng Operations and Chief of Staff to the CTO

The role

This is a blended role involving executive support, chief of staff duties, and engineering program management. You will manage the CTO's calendar and travel, track engineering initiatives and decisions, and run the engineering operating cadence.

What you will do

• Run the engineering operating cadence including planning, status, and retrospectives
• Track initiatives across teams including what is in flight, blocked, or at risk
• Coordinate cross-functional work such as compliance evidence collection and audit preparation
• Maintain internal documentation and trackers
• Capture decisions and action items and follow them to completion
• Prepare briefing material and summaries for internal reviews and board-adjacent material
• Own the CTO's calendar and make prioritization decisions
• Manage travel, expenses, and logistics for offsites and team gatherings
• Triage inbound requests for the CTO
• Use AI tooling for drafting, summarizing, and status synthesis

Required qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future need for visa sponsorship
• Based in or near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and able to be in the office at least one day per week
• 3+ years in executive support, chief of staff, program or project management, or business operations
• Exceptional organization and follow-through
• Comfort with technical subject matter
• Strong written communication
• Sound judgment about confidentiality regarding personnel, compensation, and security-sensitive information
• Comfort with startup ambiguity
• Fluency with modern software tooling and appetite for using AI assistance

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a technical executive — CTO, VP Engineering, or similar
• Experience in a software or security company
• Program or project management experience with engineering teams specifically
• Experience with compliance or audit coordination, such as SOC 2
• Recruiting coordination experience
• Experience building internal process or documentation from scratch

Benefits

• Quarterly team offsites
• Flexible schedules
• Meaningful equity ownership
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible paid time off
• New computer hardware and equipment

Before you apply

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship

About the company

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