Chief of Staff
4 нед. назад
United KingdomEuropeC-levelOnsite
Support to CEO and executive team to improve organizational efficiency and strategic initiatives.
Обязанности
- We're building 's AI-native operating engine, and we need the person who runs it. As Chief of Staff, you'll operate closer to a COO than a traditional chief of staff: building the drumbeat of the company, keeping a 200-person organisation aligned across three geographies and ensuring the operating rhythm holds as we scale fast.
- The timing matters. The operating structure this role builds is the structure scales on: if it isn't in place now scaling effectively becomes very difficult. You won't inherit a rhythm, you'll create it, and you'll do it AI-first: this is about building an AI-powered company, not automating a traditional one.
- This is a senior leadership role with real ownership over how this company thinks, communicates and executes. Our founders are experienced and capable; your job is to multiply them.
- Build the company brain: design our AI-native information architecture and knowledge flows so the right people know the right things at the right time, across every team and geography.
- Own the operating rhythm: build and run the cadence that doesn't exist today: weekly and quarterly business reviews, OKRs, goal-tracking and cross-functional alignment across three geographies.
- Create founder leverage: make the founders meaningfully more productive and effective through hyper-growth: owning their priorities, filtering what reaches them and driving what leaves their desk to completion.
- Run investor relations: own the cadence and quality of investor updates, keeping our backers (a16z, YC, HV Capital and others) close and informed as we scale.
- Build communication infrastructure: define how decisions get made, documented, communicated and followed through at scale, internally and externally.
- Turn patterns into systems: wherever the company repeats itself, find the pattern, build the process or the agent that runs it and get out of the way.
- Be the connective tissue: spot misalignment between teams and geographies before it becomes a problem and fix it without being asked.
Требования
- You're one of two profiles:
- Ex-founder, operator at scale. You've built something yourself and you've worked inside a fast-scaling company. You know what 200 people looks like from the inside, you've seen what breaks and you know how to stop it happening.
- Senior operator ready for a bigger seat. You've been in a chief of staff, strategy, or senior ops role at a high-growth startup or scaleup. You've built the operating systems companies run on and you're ready to own them end to end in a company moving faster.
- In both cases, you are:
- Deeply AI-native. You use AI tools instinctively and you're thinking about how to build an AI-powered company, not just automate tasks. You can show the systems and prompts behind how you work.
- A systems thinker. You find the pattern, build the process and get out of the way. You'd rather build something repeatable than be the bottleneck it depends on.
- A sharp communicator. You write clearly, synthesise fast and can represent the founder's credibly to a room of investors or a floor of operators.
- Trusted with everything. You handle sensitive company, people and investor information with total discretion and sound judgment.
- Comfortable at pace. moves fast and expects the same from everyone. Shifting priorities energise you rather than rattle you.
- Genuinely excited to build the operating system of a company defining a category that didn't exist three years ago.
Будет плюсом
- Experience in marketplaces, commerce, or supply chain businesses
- Exposure to fundraising, board management, or investor communications
- Experience working across multiple geographies and time zones
Другое
- The fashion industry produces over 100 billion garments a year. 60% end up in landfill, not because people don't want these clothes, but because the supply chain for getting secondhand fashion from donation to resale is completely offline, manual, and broken.
- is fixing this. Our mission is to make secondhand the first choice. We're building the infrastructure powering the global secondhand clothing trade, through a B2B marketplace and the AI systems digitising the supply chain behind it
- Through , vintage stores, online resellers, and retail buyers source graded secondhand inventory directly from wholesalers and rag houses across multiple countries. Our key enabler is FleekSort, an AI model fine-tuned on secondhand fashion, that can grade, price, and categorise items with just a photo, turning what has historically been an opaque and manual trade into a structured, searchable, and tradable global inventory layer.
- Since 2022, we've saved 9 million items from landfill and tripled in size year-on-year. We've raised ~$50M from a16z, Y Combinator, HV Capital, and others, and have recently closed our Series B. Our advisors and private investors include operators behind Depop, Shopify, and Postmates.
- Today, we serve thousands of resellers and retailers across the UK, Europe, and the US. With the secondhand fashion market projected to reach $350B by 2027, is building the AI-native operational and financial backbone for secondhand commerce globally.
- We're looking for people who want to build something that matters, and move fast doing it. Sound good? Keep reading.
- Competitive salary
- Generous equity: being on means you'll own a part of it
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- A collaborative team in a lovely office in the heart of East London
- Access to founders. We're a small team and they're heavily involved (and good fun!)
- Exclusive employee discounts to buy on
- Access to borrow any item from our collection of vintage and reworks in the office
- A disproportionate level of responsibility and the opportunity to drive massive impact
- is an in-office company. We're based at Commercial Street, E1 (Liverpool Street / Aldgate East). We operate a fully in-person culture at our office in Shoreditch, with trust-based flexibility. We hire adults and trust them to perform.
- Location: London HQ, Commercial Street, E1 (Liverpool Street / Aldgate East)
- Work model: On-site, with trust-based flexibility
- Stage: Post-Series B, hyper-growth
- Team: 200 across three geographies
- Culture: High ownership, non-hierarchical, fast-moving. Founder-led with strong opinions loosely held.
- First 30 days: deep understanding of how runs today: every team, geography, and founder workflow mapped, with the first version of the operating cadence proposed.
- 3 months: weekly and quarterly business reviews, OKRs and goal-tracking live and holding across all three geographies; investor update cadence owned end to end.
- 6 months: the company brain operational: AI-native knowledge flows in place, decision-making documented and followed through, measurable time returned to the founder's calendar.
- 12 months: the company runs as a system, not a person. The operating rhythm scales with headcount and leadership treats it as infrastructure they can't work without.
- Five values shape how we work at :
- Dream Big and Disrupt Yourself: Push the most ambitious version of what you're building. Step out of your comfort zone. Nothing is out of reach.
- Absolute Ownership: The buck stops with you. Drive initiatives to completion. Experiment, learn, persevere. The job isn't done until the job is done.
- Curiosity Leads the Way: Don't accept anything at face value. Ask questions you don't know the answer to. That's how you innovate.
- Talk to the Customer: Deeply understand their challenges, motivations, and ambitions. Every decision starts with the customer at the centre.
- Embrace Diversity: A global team building for a global supply chain. Bring your authentic self and embrace the diversity of everyone you encounter.
- Ready to build the infrastructure for the world's fastest-growing fashion economy? If you want to work on genuinely hard problems, with a world-class team, at a company that's tripling annually, we'd love to hear from you.