Chief of Staff

Eventual is building data curation for Physical AI, processing video and sensor data at petabyte scale to help robotics and Physical AI teams decide what goes into their training runs. As Chief of Staff, the role owns the work that drives company growth and spans go-to-market, operations, and legal, including the company's operating cadence, customer and partner conversations, contracts, and cross-functional projects. The company is a small team from AWS, Lyft and Tesla, backed by $30M from Felicis, CRV, Y Combinator and the co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity.

Responsibilities

Own the operating cadence end-to-end: planning, company goals and metrics, board and investor materials, and written decisions; Sit in on customer, partner, and GPU cloud conversations with the CEO and run them yourself when the CEO can't, carrying each to an outcome; Step into the functional seat not yet hired (such as sales or marketing in a given quarter) and build the motion behind it; Own contracts and the legal path, acting as internal counterpart to outside counsel and carrying deals through procurement and security review; Pick up ambiguous cross-functional problems (pricing, partner program, first go-to-market hires), drive them to a decision, and hand off or hire against them

Requirements

2-5 years of high-ownership work (Chief of Staff, business operations, strategy and operations, or early go-to-market at a startup, or consulting, banking, or VC followed by an operating role); Broad operating range across planning, metrics, contracts, vendors, and hiring, and comfort moving between them in a single day; Comfortable with commercial and legal detail, including reading an MSA, working with outside counsel, and holding your own on a customer or partner call; Clear writing and clear thinking, with memos and decks good enough to send as-is; Technically literate enough to follow what engineers are building and explain it to a customer (no need to write code)

Nice to have

Time at a data infrastructure, developer tools, or AI infrastructure company, or familiarity with the GPU cloud ecosystem; Exposure to Physical AI (autonomous vehicles, robotics, or ADAS) and a sense of what those teams work on day to day; Experience taking open source to a commercial business, or developer marketing, launches, and events you ran yourself; Enterprise procurement and security reviews, or a Series A or B raise you helped run from the inside; A bachelor's degree or higher in business administration, management, or a related field

Benefits

In-person, tight-knit team (4 days/week in SF Mission office); Competitive comp and meaningful startup equity; Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees; Commuter benefit; Team-building events and poker nights; Health, vision, and dental coverage; Flexible PTO; Latest Apple equipment; 401(k) plan with match