Role: Narratives & Communications Lead

Location: New York City, NY (Brooklyn Navy Yard — On-Site, 5 Days/Week)

Salary: $150K–$200K + Equity

Our client is an AI-native consumer product incubator that builds and scales mobile apps at high velocity. Through a vertically integrated model, proprietary growth infrastructure, and AI-enabled development workflows, they rapidly test, learn, and scale products across categories like finance, health/wellness, and the creator economy.

Backed by leading investors and operated by a lean, high-talent-density team, they spin out winning products as independent entities once they reach meaningful scale.

Position Overview:

The Chief of Staff will report directly to the Founder/CEO and build the operating system that preserves speed as complexity grows. You’ll architect the planning, process, and execution frameworks that enable the team to ideate, pressure-test, and scale multiple consumer apps in parallel.

This is a high-ownership, systems-focused role for an operator who can turn ambiguity into clarity and ship outcomes quickly.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build the company OS: Define the repeatable system for how ideas are sourced, validated, and scaled into real products and companies
• Establish planning and goals: Create annual plans, quarterly goals, monthly targets, and OKRs the team actually uses
• Design the operating rhythm: Standups, retros, and rituals that keep an 8-person team shipping like a 50-person team
• Drive alignment: Run monthly check-ins, all-hands, and offsites to keep the team focused and coordinated
• Own investor relations: Monthly updates, quarterly board materials, and memos; build a lightweight, repeatable machine
• Make knowledge systems work: Bring discipline to the knowledge base so it becomes a true source of truth (not a junk drawer)
• Run critical internal projects end-to-end: New entity formation, finance breakouts by company, stock option setup, asset transactions
• Build the hiring engine: Stand up recruiting infrastructure for both the holding company and spinouts
• Translate founder ideas into execution: Turn messy concepts into clear plans with owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes

Qualifications:

This is a role for a structured thinker and exceptional communicator who loves turning ambiguity into clarity.

✅ You likely fit if you:

• 5+ years total experience, including:
• Consulting or equivalent analytical/operator background
• 2+ years inside a VC-backed startup in a Chief of Staff or similar high-ownership role
• Consumer context: Experience at a consumer-focused company (B2C/DTC/consumer apps)
• Founder enablement: Experience “managing” or partnering closely with a high-velocity founder/CEO
• Systems builder: Demonstrated ability to design processes that increase velocity and drive outcomes (not process for process’s sake)
• NYC-based and excited about a 5-days-in-office environment
• Bonus: Former founder

❌ This role is not for you if:

• You want to be a project coordinator, note-taker, EA, or meeting shadow
• You prefer rigid structure and clearly bounded responsibilities
• You want remote flexibility or a low-velocity environment
• You see process as governance/control vs. a tool for speed
• You’re uncomfortable owning ambiguous, cross-functional problems end-to-end

What they offer:

• Competitive salary: $150K–$200K + meaningful equity in the holding company (with pro-rata exposure to portfolio companies)
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage
• All meals covered daily + a fully stocked office
• $2K monthly stipend for therapy, commuting, gym — whatever keeps you effective and healthy
• 4 weeks paid vacation
• High ownership with direct access to the founding team
• Clear paths to grow: Stay Chief of Staff, become a GM of a spinout, or develop toward a COO track

Interested?

If you’re reading this thinking “this is exactly me”, please DM me on LinkedIn!🔗