Chief of Staff

As Chief of Staff at Powernaut, you are the right hand of the founders and the operational backbone of a fast-growing company. Your mission is to free the founders to spend their time on what only they can do (strategy, fundraising, product vision, top-of-funnel sales) by absorbing, structuring, or delegating everything else.

You move between strategic projects, operational ownership, finance, and executive support. One week you're running due diligence on a new market; the next, you're rebuilding the company-wide OKR cycle, closing the monthly financials, prepping the board deck, or sitting in on a customer escalation. You bring order to chaos, rhythm to a fast-moving team, and leverage to two founders.

You operate with high autonomy, working with the founders to shape strategic decisions and keep our collective efforts aligned with Powernaut's ambitious vision.

Here's what your impactful role will entail:

• Strategic projects: Own end-to-end the projects that don't yet have an owner: market entry analyses, pricing studies, fundraising preparation, regulatory deep-dives, board-level investigations. You scope, run, and either ship or hand off.
• Finance ownership: Run financial planning, budgeting and cash management. Work with our accountant and external advisors on monthly close, board financials, and the path to next-round metrics. Own investor reporting, the data room, and the financial narrative we tell.
• Operational cadence: Design and run the company's operating rhythm: quarterly planning, OKRs, weekly reviews, all-hands, board prep. Add scalable processes where today there is improvisation, while preserving speed where improvisation still wins.
• Founders' leverage: Sit in on the meetings the founders cannot prepare for. Pre-read, prioritise, brief, follow up. Act as a trusted sounding board and a decisive filter on inbound asks.
• Automation mindset: You automate your own work, your processes, and the company's repetitive operations wherever it makes sense. You do the rest yourself, or hire someone if the business case is there to do so. You will be measured on leverage, not hours.
• Business operations & legal: Coordinate the non-engineering back-office: HR, legal, subsidies, corporate compliance, vendor management. Partner with external advisors and internal owners to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
• Hiring leverage: Partner with the founders on key hires: writing roles, sourcing, running first-round filters, and owning offer logistics. As we scale, this becomes a real hiring engine.
• Cross-functional glue: Be the connective tissue between Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Delivery, and Account Management. Surface misalignment early, broker decisions, keep the team rowing in the same direction.

A few examples of what your week might include:

• Briefing the CEO on the morning's three most important asks and what to push back on.
• Running a one-day deep-dive on whether to enter a new country market.
• Closing the monthly financial review and prepping the next board update.
• Sitting between Legal and Finance to close an investor side-letter.
• Catching the operational debt nobody else has flagged.

The actual mix shifts week to week. That is the job.