Chief of Staff

Who are we?

We’re a team buildingSagora—an AI for autonomous system design and operations. Sagora understands the characteristics of the workload, adapts to dynamic environments, and continuously optimizes multiple layers of the AI stack to achieve performance and cost objectives. Sagora designs and delivers system optimizations 10-100x faster than experts, reducing weeks of human effort to hours. The technology is based on a decade’s worth of know-how and insights from award-winning research in the Networks and Mobile Systems group at MIT CSAIL.

Chief of Staff to the CEO

We are seeking a highly organized, resourceful, and execution-oriented Chief of Staff to partner closely with the CEO of our growing 15-person AI startup. This person will play a central role in helping the CEO manage the company’s day-to-day internal operations, advance key priorities, and ensure important work moves forward without anything falling through the cracks.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys bringing structure to a fast-moving environment. The Chief of Staff will operate across business operations, strategic initiatives, people operations, and executive administration. Responsibilities will range from coordinating company-wide priorities and preparing investor materials to supporting HR processes and following up on critical action items.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years of relevant experience and is comfortable moving seamlessly between strategic projects and practical execution. No task is too big or too small when it contributes to the company’s success.

Key Responsibilities

CEO and Strategic Support

• Serve as a trusted partner to the CEO, helping translate priorities and ideas into clear plans, actions, and outcomes.

• Track the CEO’s key strategic and operational priorities, proactively following up with owners and ensuring commitments are completed.

• Maintain visibility into important company initiatives, deadlines, decisions, and dependencies so that nothing falls through the cracks.

• Prepare the CEO for important meetings by developing agendas, compiling relevant materials, and identifying decisions or follow-up items.

• Attend key meetings as appropriate, document decisions and action items, and drive follow-through.

• Conduct research and synthesize information to support company decisions, partnerships, investor conversations, and other strategic initiatives.

Business Operations and Administration

• Coordinate and plan leadership meetings, company meetings, planning sessions, and other internal events.

• Organize and maintain pitch decks, documents, investor materials, company presentations, reports, and other critical business documents.

• Support the development of board, investor, and key customer updates, including gathering information and coordinating information from across the company.

• Assist with vendor relationships, contracts, company insurance, office needs, and other administrative matters as required.

• Identify operational gaps and proactively recommend practical solutions.

People and HR Support

• Support day-to-day people operations and HR activities as needed, working with external advisors and vendors where appropriate.

• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring employees have a smooth and professional experience.

• Help maintain employee records, policies, organizational information, and other people-related documentation.

• Support recruiting coordination, interview scheduling, offer processes, and new-hire preparation.

• Assist with benefits administration, payroll coordination, performance-review processes, employee engagement, and company events.

• Help the CEO foster a highly collaborative, accountable, and mission-driven culture.

• Handle sensitive employee and company information with exceptional judgment and discretion.