Chief of Staff

Join our team as a Chief of Staff, where you'll play a crucial role in building the operating backbone behind our leadership team. You'll support our COO and the wider C-level in turning strategy into structured decisions, taking high-priority initiatives from idea to delivery, and ensuring our company operates efficiently. This role offers real ownership over how well the company runs, with direct reporting to the COO.

• Assister le COO et l'équipe de direction dans la mise en œuvre de la stratégie de l'entreprise, en transformant les idées en décisions structurées et en veillant à ce que les initiatives prioritaires soient menées à bien.
• Diriger et suivre les projets inter-départementaux, en veillant à ce qu'ils respectent les délais et en tenant les équipes responsables de leurs résultats.
• Évaluer la structure organisationnelle, identifier les lacunes en matière de compétences et diriger les efforts pour les combler, tout en concevant et en affinant les processus internes.
• Excellent project management skills, building slides (Google Slides) and spreadsheets for daily business use cases with an analytical, structured, and process-oriented approach
• Strong analytical skills and a high affinity for data, business models, and operational metrics
• A natural ability to build and maintain relationships and anticipate needs and challenges as well as thinking ahead
• Business-level proficiency in both German and English is a must
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and be able to lead something with little input/context
• Outstanding academic background, MBA preferred
• Resilient, persistent, and proactive attitude as well as trustworthy with confidential information
• Excited by in-person collaboration. This role requires 4 day office attendance, one day can be worked remotely
• Professional and clear communication in both written and verbal form
• Structured, self-driven, and pragmatic way of working, with a steep learning curve and strong follow-through
• 2-5 years of experience ideally in consultancies, scale-ups, VCs, or PEs; previous experience as COO of a small start up, CoS or Head of Operations or Special Projects in a mid-sized start up beneficial