Chief of Staff Verso (backed by Hexa)

Founded in 2025 by Lydia Bellahouel (CEO) and Camille Epitalon (CTO) Verso is backed by Hexa (eFounders) the pioneer startup studio in Europe having launched 35 companies including unicorns like Front Aircall and Spendesk combining 230m ARR and 750m raised.

Verso is rewriting the rules of consumer research in a market that is being highly disrupted by AI. We need a seasoned industry voice who can walk into any insights team in the world earn their trust in the first ten minutes and show them a better way.

About Verso & who we are

Verso is an AI-native consumer research platform. Our AI conducts 1:1 qualitative interviews at scale in any language then analyzes transcripts into structured actionable reports in under a week at a fraction of traditional cost. We serve global brands across the world.

We are a small team with high standards and a clear thesis: consumer research has been broken for decades and AI is finally the right tool to fix it.

Verso was founded by Lydia & Camille. Lydia spent 7 years at BCG leading AI-powered transformation for CPGs and knows the pain inside out. Camille is an AI expert and pioneer in agentic systems.

Why this role exists

We have built an AI that runs qualitative interviews at scale and turns interviews into structured insights. The technology works. What we need now is someone who can help us scale with intention: someone who brings structure to our growth without slowing it down and who can hold the strategic and the operational in the same hand.

This is a role for someone who is genuinely comfortable operating at the level of ideas and the level of execution sometimes on the same day and who finds that energizing rather than exhausting.

You will work directly with the founders across everything that sits at the intersection of strategy delivery and product. You will own things not just advise on them. And because you will see every part of the business you will have real influence over where we go next.

What you will own

• Operational backbone. You design and own the processes that make Verso run: how studies are scoped staffed tracked and delivered. You identify where things break before they actually break and you fix them without waiting to be asked.

• Strategic clarity. You help the founders think through the decisions that matter: which markets to prioritize how to structure our offer what our roadmap should look like in 12 months. You are comfortable with ambiguity and know how to bring structure to a messy problem without oversimplifying it.

• Product translation. You sit at the intersection of client feedback and product development. You synthesize what you observe across studies and client conversations into clear actionable input for the product and engineering team. You understand what clients actually need versus what they say they need.

• Cross-functional glue. In a small team things fall through the cracks when everyone is heads-down. You are the person who notices connects the dots and makes sure the right people are talking to each other at the right moment.

• Fundraising and investor relationships. You work closely with the founders on fundraising strategy support key materials and analysis and help manage relationships with current and prospective investors

• Special projects. Some of the most important work at an early-stage company does not have a job title yet. You are the person who picks up those projects runs them and hands them off or scales them as Verso grows.