Chief of Staff, Ceo

Lovable Lovable · Coding AI · Stockholm, Sweden · CEO office

Chief of Staff role for a CEO at a hypergrowth startup. The role involves shaping strategy, driving execution, and improving various functions. It requires extensive experience in high-intensity environments, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and comfort with ambiguity and fast-paced decision-making. The role also involves building and iterating on AI-powered workflows to scale the CEO's office.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a sounding board and sparring partner to the CEO on company strategy, competitive positioning, fundraising, org design, and executive hiring
  2. Own the cadence of the company — leadership meetings, leadership offsites, support all-hands preparation, goal-setting, planning, and cross-functional accountability systems
  3. Shape CEO communications for internal audiences (all-hands, leadership updates, sensitive HR matters) and external audiences (investor calls, candidate-facing materials)
  4. Drive alignment across the Leadership team and functional leads — mediate tensions constructively and ensure leadership decisions translate into execution
  5. Lead high-stakes special projects end-to-end — executive hiring processes, competitive intelligence, accountability frameworks

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of professional experience
  • MBB consulting, investment banking, or similar foundation
  • Founder, Chief of Staff, Head of BizOps/Strategy, or senior operations generalist experience
  • Experience at hypergrowth startups
  • Executive-grade communication
  • Diplomatic backbone
  • AI fluency
  • Comfort with founder-speed proximity and intensity

Nice to have

  • Experience building AI workflows and agents
  • Coaching background
  • Executive coaching certification

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of professional experience across high-intensity environments
  • MBB consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan) or similar foundation
  • Ex-Founder, Chief of Staff, Head of BizOps/Strategy, or senior operations generalist experience at a hypergrowth startup
  • Experience at companies that scaled revenue dramatically in compressed timeframes
  • AI fluency
  • daily co-working sessions with the CEO on his schedule, in-person in Stockholm, no remote exceptions
  • Some sessions run long and often happen outside of business hours