About This Role
This Chief of Staff role supports the Chief AI Officer, ensuring the AI organization operates efficiently and effectively. The position involves bridging across all teams and functions, prioritizing work, and ensuring plans translate into high-quality deliverables. It suits an experienced professional who can manage operational rhythms, planning, and cross-functional coordination within a fast-paced AI/ML environment.
Responsibilities
- Own the operating rhythm and planning, including annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and weekly and monthly business reviews
- Drive budget and headcount planning, adjusting as priorities shift
- Prevent major programs from colliding or stalling across research, modeling, product, delivery, and security
- Act as a point of contact for decision ownership and trade-off navigation
- Serve as connective tissue between the Chief AI Officer’s organization and the rest of the company, coordinating with product, engineering, security, and finance
- Lead special projects that do not fit neatly within existing teams, such as reorgs, new partnerships, or flagship research events
Requirements
- 12+ years of operating experience, with real time inside an AI/ML organization in a Chief of Staff, business operations, or senior program-operations seat
- Ability to partner with teams shipping fast and often to high-stakes organizations, and to change course with agility
- Understanding of how AI actually works, from a hands-on perspective
- Ability to discuss credibly how a model turns into a product, data requirements for research and engineering, and common delivery challenges
- Fluency in numbers, including model performance metrics, data pipeline throughput, and budget-to-impact
- Ability to understand programs well enough to earn respect for judgment from those running them
- Capacity to hold strategy and execution in the same hand
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, handle ambiguity with curiosity and confidence, and remain calm under pressure
- Track record of bringing order to a fast, complex organization without hindering progress
- Outstanding communication skills, including clear writing, direct talk, ability to influence teams and individuals, and executive presence to represent the Chief AI Officer in high-stakes conversations
Benefits
- Six weeks’ paid vacation
- Equity / stock options
- RRSP, 401(k), and Pension Scheme contributions
- Coverage for 100% of insurance premiums across health, dental, vision, and travel
- Additional coverage for accessing mental health providers/services
- Six months of fully paid parental leave, including adoption and surrogacy
