Act as a thought partner to the CEO across strategy, prioritization, and execution
Pressure-test ideas, surface risks, and bring structure to ambiguous decisions
Prepare, synthesize, and follow through on high-stakes meetings with investors, customers, advisors, and partners
Protect the CEO’s time and focus by filtering noise and driving outcomes
Serve as the connective tissue across product, engineering, operations, sales, finance, and legal
Drive operating rhythm including weekly priorities, exec reviews, board preparation, and follow-through
Ensure commitments are clear, dependencies are surfaced, and teams stay aligned
Identify gaps, bottlenecks, and misalignment early and move decisively to resolve them
Act as a partial Technical Project Manager ensuring product and engineering teams are communicating clearly with commercial and operational stakeholders
Translate between technical and non-technical contexts without losing precision
Oversee sensitive domains including payroll, financial workflows, legal coordination, and confidential company information
Represent the CEO and Ando with investors, customers, and partners as needed

Experience from strategy, consulting, investing, or high-expectation operating environments
Highly organized without being rigid
Technically fluent and comfortable partnering closely with engineers and product leaders
Able to context-switch rapidly while maintaining clarity
Discreet, trustworthy, and emotionally intelligent
Motivated by ownership, impact, and long-term trajectory rather than title alone.

Chief of Staff

Key skills