Chief of Staff (m/f/d)

The role

The Chief of Staff will drive strategic business initiatives and operational success for a portfolio company. This person will support Founders by improving organizational design, optimizing internal processes, and managing high-impact projects.

What you will do

• Lead critical strategic business initiatives from concept to delivery
• Enable effective executive decision-making through problem structuring and program design
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Founders and leadership team
• Translate business strategy into clear priorities and roadmaps
• Review, design, and implement improvements to organizational structure
• Architect and optimize internal processes, workflows, and meeting cadences
• Drive cross-functional alignment and improve collaboration systems
• Own core internal systems and tools like project billing and budget sheets
• Prepare strategic presentations and materials for workshops and leadership meetings
• Track progress and performance across key initiatives

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience ideally in consultancies, scale-ups, VCs, or PEs
• Excellent project management skills
• Building slides (Google Slides) and spreadsheets for daily business use cases
• Analytical, structured, and process-oriented approach
• Professional and clear communication in both written and verbal form
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and lead with little input/context
• Ability to build and maintain relationships and anticipate needs and challenges
• Resilient, persistent, and proactive attitude
• Trustworthy with confidential information
• Business-level proficiency in both German and English is a must
• Excited by in-person collaboration
• Eligibility to work within the EU is required

Benefits

• Entrepreneurial freedom
• Take a pre-validated business model to the next level
• Join an experienced founding team of serial and 2nd-time founders
• Attractive base and bonus compensation program
• Collaboration with top-tier investors and angles (incl. various unicorn founders) as well as leading market experts

Before you apply

• Eligibility to work within the EU is required

About the company

The company is part of the A11 Ecosystem, a next-generation supply chain platform using agentic AI and workflow automation. It has a team of 80+ FTEs across Europe, China, and India.