Chief of Staff

Featherless AI Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco Office

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• We're hiring our first Chief of Staff to unlock our next phase of growth.
• Too much context lives in founder's heads. Roles and responsibilities are unclear, key projects lack singular owners / DRI and prioritization is always a challenge.
• Defining clear KPIs with owners and beating a drum around accountability is a key missing piece that needs an owner.
• This role exists to fix that. You'll convert founder instinct into process — without turning a 40-person company into a bureaucracy.
• This is not an executive-assistant role, and it's not an "AI adoption lead".
• You'll have real ownership over operational areas, not just support the CEO's calendar.
• We're early enough that this role will be defined significantly by what you're good at.
• We're looking for someone who's comfortable with that trade.
• Operational admin that shouldn't sit with the CEO — vendor contracts and renewals, finance/ops logistics, and recruiting-process management (not sourcing, but the machinery: pipeline tracking, interview loops, offer logistics).
• Cross-team coordination — you'll be the connective tissue between engineering, sales, and product when priorities drift out of alignment.
• The operating rhythm — as the company grows past 50, you'll help stand up the cadence (leadership meetings, action-item tracking, decision follow-through) that keeps priorities from living only in discord threads and the founder's memory.
• Special projects — whatever is highest-priority and doesn't have a clear owner yet. This will shift month to month.
• 5+ years in a high-ownership, fast-moving environment (startup operations, strategy consulting, banking, or similar) — strong judgment under ambiguity matters more than a specific pedigree.
• Enough technical fluency to sit in engineering syncs and customer calls and follow what's being discussed.
• A track record of turning messy, undefined problems into a plan and driving it to done — with minimal hand-holding.
• Strong written and verbal communication; you'll be relied on to represent the CEO's intent accurately in rooms the CEO isn't in.
• Comfort with the fact that this role will change shape as the company scales.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in a high-ownership, fast-moving environment (startup operations, strategy consulting, banking, or similar) — strong judgment under ambiguity matters more than a specific pedigree.
• Enough technical fluency to sit in engineering syncs and customer calls and follow what's being discussed.
• A track record of turning messy, undefined problems into a plan and driving it to done — with minimal hand-holding.
• Strong written and verbal communication; you'll be relied on to represent the CEO's intent accurately in rooms the CEO isn't in.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package

Skills & Technologies

Senior

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About Featherless AI Inc.

Featherless AI Inc. provides serverless LLM hosting, offering developers and AI teams worldwide instant access to a continually expanding library of over 17,300 open-source models. Their platform facilitates seamless deployment for fine-tuning, testing, and production, empowering diverse applications from AI software development to creative writing platforms. Featherless distinguishes itself by eliminating the burden of server management and significantly reducing inference costs, providing transparent, flat-rate pricing with unlimited tokens. As an AI research lab, they pioneer open-source, post-transformer model research and aim to make advanced AI more accessible and affordable for a global customer base, supporting innovation across various industries.

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