Chief of Staff
Job Summary
The Role
We are looking for a high-energy execution leader with strong medical domain expertise to join our leadership team as Chief of Staff reporting directly to the Founder & CEO.
This is not a traditional administrative Chief of Staff role. It is a high-impact strategic and operational position designed for someone who can act as the CEOs right hand and force multiplier. You will bridge the gap between vision and reality ensuring that Mindpeaks strategic objectives are translated into operational excellence across the entire organization.
Your Mission
Your mission is to ensure that strategy turns into reliable execution.
You will act as the connective tissue of the company ensuring that the CEOs priorities are communicated owned and delivered. You are someone who thrives in the gray area between departmentsmedical regulatory engineering and commercialbringing clarity where there is ambiguity and momentum where there is friction.
This means:
Driving the CEOs Agenda: Ensuring top-level priorities are met through relentless follow-through.
Operational Architecture: Building and refining the operating rhythms (OKRs leadership meetings cross-functional syncs) that keep a scaling AI company focused.
Medical & Domain Alignment: Bringing medical relevance into high-level decision-making to ensure our AI impacts clinical reality.
Executing Special Projects: Taking ownership of first-of-their-kind initiatives that dont yet have a natural home in the organization.
What Youll Do
Strategic Partnership & Execution
CEO Sparring Partner: Act as a sounding board for the CEO on organizational design scaling decisions and product direction.
Priority Management: Filter and prioritize the CEOs time and focus ensuring the leadership team stays aligned on the Vital Few goals.
Meeting Architecture: Design and lead leadership offsites board preparations and weekly management meetings to maximize decision-making speed.
Operational Excellence
Scaling the Backbone: Introduce pragmatic software-native processes that allow us to grow from 50 to 100 employees without losing our soul or speed.
Interdisciplinary Glue: Break down silos between medical engineering and regulatory teams to ensure the PS get on the road and stay there.
Accountability Loops: Ensure that once a decision is made it is sustainably implemented followed and measured.
Medical & Domain Leadership
Clinical Translation: Ensure our strategic roadmap reflects real-world clinical workflows and the rigorous demands of pathology and drug development.
Your Profile
Execution Powerhouse: You have shown that you can execute in challenging environments.
Force Multiplier: While the CEO is great at the Zero to One (the vision and the kickoff) you thrive on the One to N (the execution)
Mindset: Hands-on and decisive. You dont just design frameworks; you stay until they work.
Language: Fluent in English.
Location: Based in Hamburg.
Who This Role Is Not For
Pure Strategy Consultants: If you prefer building decks over building organizations this isnt for you.
Administrators: This is an execution role not a personal assistant or traditional office manager position.
Why Mindpeak
Impact: Build AI systems that power both clinical cancer diagnostics and data-driven drug development.
Culture: An open creative environment with flat hierarchies and a focus on continuous development.
Leadership Development: Join a leadership team that invests in itself through regular workshops and peer coaching.
Location: A centrally located Hamburg office with a beautiful view over the harbor.
Ownership: We offer an equity component in the compensation reflecting the strategic importance of this role.
Application Details
Please send us:
Your CV
Job references
Salary expectations and earliest possible starting date
Contact: Email:
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
We are making the difference in pathology We’re a Hamburg, Germany-based start-up with the mission to democratise cancer diagnostics. We apply artificial intelligence to improve pathologists‘ ability to identify cancer quickly and accurately. The opportunity to take cancer diagnostics ... View more