Chief of Staff
Role Overview
This senior Chief of Staff role partners directly with the CEO at Bespoke Labs, an applied AI research lab, to drive operational excellence and strategic execution as the company scales from 15 to 40+ people. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing key customer relationships with frontier labs and enterprises, leading cross-functional hiring and organizational design, and coordinating major deliverables to ensure company OKRs are met. The hire will have a high impact by building systems and processes, resolving dependencies, and enabling rapid growth in a high-performing, ambiguous environment.
Perks & Benefits
The job requires full-time in-office presence in Mountain View, CA, 5 days a week, as stated in the logistics, so it is not remote despite the initial location listing. Benefits likely include opportunities for career growth through strategic partnerships and scaling initiatives, exposure to frontier AI labs and leading enterprises, and a culture that values high agency, judgment, and context-switching in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment typical of tech roles.
Full Job Description
About Bespoke Labs
Bespoke Labs is an applied AI research lab pioneering data and RL environment curation for training and evaluating agents.
Recently, we curated Open Thoughts, one of the best open reasoning datasets used by multiple frontier labs, trained SOTA specialized models such as Bespoke-MiniChart-7B and Bespoke-MiniCheck, and taught agents to do multi-turn tool-calling with reinforcement learning.
We work directly with frontier AI labs, as well as leading enterprises.
About The Role
We're looking for a Chief of Staff to partner with the CEO and drive operational excellence as we scale. You'll translate strategy into execution, coordinate cross-functional initiatives, and build the systems and processes that enable rapid growth.
You'll work on our highest-priority challenges: managing key customer relationships, driving hiring and organizational design, coordinating major deliverables, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
You're someone who thrives in ambiguity, has exceptional judgment, and can context-switch between strategic planning, tactical execution, and people operations.
What You'll Do
Partner with the CEO on strategic initiatives and key business decisions
Manage relationships with frontier labs and enterprise customers; coordinate delivery of major contracts.
Lead hiring across functions—sourcing, interviews, closing candidates; manage contractor operations.
Design organizational structures, processes, and operating rhythms as we scale from 15 to 40+ people
Drive execution of company OKRs and unblock teams by resolving dependencies
What We're Looking For
Required
4+ years in high-performing environments (top consulting, banking, high-growth startups, or similar)
Proven track record driving complex cross-functional initiatives to completion
Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence without authority
Strong business acumen, analytical skills, and comfort with data/financial models
High agency and judgment—you see what needs to happen and make it happen
Experience hiring, coordinating teams, or managing people operations
Nice to Have
Previous Chief of Staff role at a high-growth startup
Experience in AI/ML companies or deep tech
Management consulting background (MBB or equivalent)
Technical background or ability to engage with technical concepts
MBA from a top-tier program
Logistics
Location: Mountain View, CA (in-office presence required 5 days a week)
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