FOUNDING CHIEF OF STAFF

About

At Steerlab, our mission is to empower Sales teams to win more deals by automating their response to RFPs (Requests for Proposals), Security Questionnaires, and other vendor questionnaires with AI. By leveraging fine‑tuned language models and multi‑modal, agentic AI systems, we turn answers that used to take days into minutes: factual, on‑brand, and ready to submit, while surfacing the insights that drive up win rates. We’re just getting started. We’re backed by top‑tier VCs, and teams at Bolt, GoFundMe and Staffbase already win with Steerlab. Now we’re scaling fast and growing the team to take this much further.

Job Description

• Lead high‑priority initiatives end to end, from strategy through execution, across the whole business.
• Act as a thought partner to the founders, turning ambiguous problems into clear decisions.
• Build and run the operating cadence: planning, OKRs, board materials, and the rhythms that keep the team aligned.
• Find and fix operational bottlenecks that slow the company, often where no playbook exists yet.
• Own special projects that matter most: fundraising, strategic partnerships, new launches, and market research.
• Keep finance running: budgeting, runway, reporting, vendors, and fundraising support.
• Keep hiring and people running: recruiting process, onboarding, and the foundations that protect the culture as we scale.
• Dive into the weeds to get things across the finish line and create process only where it speeds the business up.

Preferred Experience

• 3+ years in high‑performing environments: top‑tier consulting, investment banking, VC‑backed startups, or an equivalent role.
• Generalist edge: BizOps, Chief of Staff, or a high‑growth startup generalist with exposure to finance or people operations.
• Structured thinker who turns chaos into clarity: synthesizing cleanly in writing for founders, investors, and the whole team.
• Analytical: digs into data and pulls out insights that drive decisions.
• Comfortable in messy situations: unafraid of incomplete data and confident making calls without certainty.
• Relentless executor: trusted to own complex, cross‑functional work end to end.
• Scrappy and resourceful: does what it takes to move the business forward.
• Fluent in English (French is a plus).

What’s in it for you?

• Work directly with the CEO and founders on the company's most critical priorities.
• Seat at the table as we scale across product, GTM, finance, hiring, and operations.
• Enormous surface area and rapid growth: the role expands as fast as you do.
• High trust and high autonomy.

Recruitment Process

• Intro call (20 to 30 min): background, work style, and contextual fit.
• Practical working session (60 to 90 min): solve a real Steerlab problem such as scoping a strategic initiative or untangling an operational bottleneck and illustrate your execution approach.
• Final conversation and culture fit (30 min): discussion with the founders about ways of working, ownership, values, and references.
• Offer: if it’s a match, we move fast.

Additional Information

• Contract Type: Full‑Time
• Location: Paris (occasional remote authorized)
• Experience: > 3 years