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Job Summary
About the Role
We are looking for a former founder who has been in the arena: built teams managed P&L across functions raised capital and made hard calls under uncertainty. This person brings the credibility context and judgment that comes from having run an organisation independently and now channels that experience into amplifying the CEOs impact at scale.
Unlike a traditional Chief of Staff this role demands an operator who has lived the weight of the founders seat who understands the trade-offs between speed and rigour growth and efficiency autonomy and alignment. Someone who is self-driven to a fault takes ownership without being asked and has genuine empathy for what it takes to build something from nothing.
What You Will Own
1. CEO Priorities & Strategic Execution
Partner with the CEO to define sequence and relentlessly drive the companys top strategic priorities.
Bring a founders lens to market competitive and growth analysis drawing on first-hand experience of what actually matters at each stage.
Convert strategic decisions into crisp execution plans with clear owners timelines and success metrics.
2. Operating Cadence & Business Rhythm
Own the CEOs operating system: weekly reviews monthly business updates quarterly planning and leadership offsites.
Drive quality inputs into leadership reviews metrics narratives risks and decision points and ensure closure on every action.
Bring the discipline of a founder who has had to run lean and extract maximum signal from every review.
3. Cross-functional Program Leadership
Lead high-stakes cross-functional programs spanning Product Engineering Sales CX Finance and People.
Identify bottlenecks resolve dependency conflicts and hold the organisation to delivery standards without relying on positional authority.
Apply the earned credibility of someone who has managed every function firsthand.
4. Decision Support & Executive Communication
Build structured decision frameworks and crisp opinionated recommendations for leadership and the board.
Create executive-ready artefacts: briefs memos dashboards talking points board materials.
Drive alignment through clear communication knowing when to push when to escalate and when to let things breathe.
5. Special Projects
Own fast-moving high-leverage ambiguous projects that require CEO-level judgment and rapid execution.
Act as the CEOs proxy in rooms and conversations where presence and credibility matter.
What Success Looks Like
CEO priorities are consistently unblocked and delivered with clear accountability.
The organisation operates with sharper cadence better decisions and fewer execution gaps.
Cross-functional initiatives ship faster with fewer misalignments.
Leadership has better visibility into performance risks and trade-offs and trusts the office to surface what matters.
The CEOs time and focus are protected and directed at the highest-leverage activities.
Who We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate is a former founder who: Built and led a company through early to mid-stage managing all key functions. Raised external funding and navigated investor dynamics. Reached a natural exit or transition point not due to failure of effort or integrity but because the path forward required a different kind of capital context or partner. Is now energised by the opportunity to operate at scale inside a high-growth company channelling their full toolkit in service of a mission they believe in. |
Requirements
Former founder with end-to-end company-building experience from team formation through funding rounds to exit or transition.
Hands-on experience managing multiple functions: Product Engineering Sales Finance Operations and People.
Demonstrated ability to raise capital and work with investors boards and external stakeholders.
Strong analytical and business judgment; fluency with P&L unit economics and SaaS/growth metrics.
Exceptional written and verbal communication ability to produce crisp executive-grade narratives.
High EQ discretion and the ability to influence without authority across all levels of an organisation.
Self-driven: identifies what needs to be done and moves without waiting to be asked.
Nice to Have
MBA from a Tier-1 institution.
Experience in B2B SaaS CPaaS CX contact centre or telecom domains.
Familiarity with OKRs QBRs board reporting and performance dashboards.
Prior experience operating alongside or as a thought partner to a high-growth CEO.
Required Experience:
Founder
