Chief of Staff, Office of the President

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San Francisco, CA - USA

profile Yearly Salary: $ 165000 - 220000
Posted on: Yesterday
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Us:

Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation coding and clinical workflow built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. Trusted by top health systems across North America Ambiences platform is live across outpatient emergency and inpatient settings supporting more than 100 specialties with real-time coding-aware documentation. The platform integrates directly with Epic Oracle Cerner athenahealth and other major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC/FT Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) OpenAI Startup Fund Kleiner Perkins and other leading investors.

Join us in the endeavor of accelerating the path to safe & useful clinical super intelligence by becoming part of our community of problem solvers technologists clinicians and innovators.

The Role

Reports to: Ambience President Co-Founder and Chairman - Mike Ng

Work Location: San Francisco HQ (Hybrid 3 days onsite)

The Office of the President exists to answer Ambiences hardest questions: where the company is going how it wins its category and what must be true for Ambience to become the defining healthcare AI platform by 2030.

This office is not a functional team and not an additional management layer. It is a problemsolving nucleus built to help the President see the future more clearly architect the best possible version of Ambience and move the company decisively toward it. The Chief of Staff is the core operating partner within that office.

In this role you help drive trajectorychanging decisions - the choices that materially shape Ambiences longterm direction ecosystem position and competitive advantage. These include decisions around platform evolution strategic partnerships market sequencing external relationships and moments where speed judgment and leverage matter more than consensus.

You do not own strategy in a vacuum nor do you operate with predefined lanes. Instead you take the beginnings of direction from the President a working hypothesis a voice memo a conversation and turn it into concrete progress: framing the problem gathering signal aligning the right people and driving execution until a real decision or outcome is reached.

Some weeks you will quarterback multithreaded initiatives across senior leaders and external partners. Other weeks you will personally own and execute critical work endtoend. Priorities will shift. Timelines will compress. The work will often be confidential urgent and highstakes.

This role is for someone who genuinely wants to be at the tip of the spear working on the most important things in the company at the moment they matter most.

What Youll Accomplish

President Leverage & Decision Support

  • Act as the Presidents strategic and operational right hand on the companys most critical initiatives

  • Translate high-level direction (e.g. voice memos working sessions early hypotheses and rough ideas) into clear plans decisions and execution

  • Prepare pre-reads frameworks and analyses that directly inform executive decision-making

Trajectory-Changing Initiatives

  • Own or quarterback the most important projects in the company often with little notice

  • Lead fast-moving high-stakes workstreams involving senior internal leaders and external executives (e.g. hyperscalers foundation model partners health system CEOs)

  • Navigate confidential time-sensitive initiatives including partnerships negotiations and strategic pivots

Cross-Functional Orchestration

  • Bring structure momentum and accountability to complex multi-threaded efforts

  • Align stakeholders across Product Engineering GTM Legal Finance and external partners

  • Identify bottlenecks early and creatively remove them

Problem Solving Under Ambiguity

  • Take loosely defined problems and impose clarity sequencing and decision logic

  • Rapidly gather signal test hypotheses and adapt direction as new information emerges

  • Operate comfortably across altitudes from executive narrative to detailed execution

What Were Looking For

Must Have

  • 5 years of experience in consulting strategy BizOps investing or high-impact operating roles

  • Proven ability to solve ambiguous high-stakes problems with limited direction

  • Exceptional clarity of thought and communication (especially written)

  • Experience working closely with senior executives or founders

  • High judgment discretion and comfort handling confidential information

Strong Signals

  • You are a fast learner who actively seeks out new information and updates your views as you learn while also valuing feedback debate and mentorship from strong partners

  • You are motivated by getting to the truth not by being right; you enjoy having your assumptions challenged are comfortable saying I dont know and move quickly to find out

  • You use writing analysis and action as tools to create clarity and drive decisions

  • You follow problems through to real outcomes even when the work is unglamorous or cross-functional

  • You operate with low ego and high integrity prioritizing whats best for the company over personal scope

  • You are highly AI-forward: you actively use AI systems to think learn analyze and communicate operating at roughly a Level 4 AI Fluency (AI as a thinking partner not just a productivity hack)

Nice to Have

  • Healthcare enterprise SaaS AI or startup experience

  • Experience in partnerships corporate development or complex negotiations

  • Experience operating in AI-native environments where decisions are informed by first-principles reasoning rapid learning loops and written synthesis (e.g. memos briefs or decision docs that materially shaped outcomes)

Why This Role Matters

This role sits at the center of Ambiences most important work. You will have unmatched exposure to executive decision-making external ecosystem dynamics and the hardest problems the company faces.

It is also a demanding role requiring flexibility resilience and a genuine desire to serve the mission above personal scope or autonomy. For the right person it will be the fastest learning environment in the company and one of the most impactful roles of their career.

Pay Transparency

The base compensation for this role is approximately $165000$220000 per year excluding equity or bonus targets. We intentionally offer a wide range to support flexibility around cash and equity. We believe strongly in equity ownership and want team members to share meaningfully in the impact they create.

If youre outside this range we still encourage you to apply we take an individualized approach to compensation that considers the full picture.

Being at Ambience:

  • An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients

  • Work alongside a world-class diverse team that is deeply mission aligned

  • Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company

  • Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health dental and vision coverage quarterly retreats unlimited PTO and a 401(k) plan with matching

Ambience is committed to supporting every candidates ability to fully participate in our hiring process. If you need any accommodations during your application or interviews please reach out to our Recruiting team at . Well handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.

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About Us:Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation coding and clinical workflow built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. Trusted by top health systems across North America Ambiences platform is live across outpatient emergency a...
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Key Skills

  • Compliance Management
  • Customer Retention
  • Quality Assurance
  • Customer Service
  • Extensive Knowledge
  • Account Management
  • Front Office
  • Telephone Calls
  • Needs Analysis
  • Cold calls
  • Business Relationships
  • Customer Complaints
  • Sales Goals
  • Sales Process
  • New Clients