Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff @ Hard Launch RoleCompany Description

Hard Launch works with founders on their hard launch: the out-of-stealth moment, the raise, and the product drop. It’s our mission to help our founders & companies become ‘known’ and have folks truly care about them.

To accomplish this, I step in as the company's interim CMO and bring my team in to execute everything on the marketing, video, creative, event, and design front to make it land. We work across the board, whatever the launch actually needs.

The companies we've worked with are some of the biggest launches of the year: Flora, Listen Labs, General Intelligence, Eigen, Tomo, and more, backed by firms like Benchmark, Lightspeed, Sequoia, and many more of the valley's best firms.

Outside of working on launches, we're constantly working on special projects and initiatives with incredible partners across the ecosystem to do novel experiences & bring together amazing people.

Role Description

I'm hiring a Chief of Staff, and I'm looking for someone who wants to learn everything, take it all in, and give it their all. This is my life’s work and I want to bet on every single person on my team to be generational.

Hard Launch means everything to the founders we work with, and is the opportunity of a lifetime for someone who makes the most out of everything. There’s no other place where you’d get the ownership, impact and work on the projects and with the amazing people that we work with.

I'm hiring a Chief of Staff to be my right hand, and I’ll teach you everything you need to know about launching.

This is a full-time, hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You'll spend your days with founders, investors, and partners, and most of your time on the strategic and creative work that makes a launch land.

These are the three main priorities & work streams you’d work on:

Operations: You're on top of everything, always. We're running a lot of processes across a lot of active engagements at once, and you make sure nothing gets dropped. There's always a million and one things to do, but I need someone detail-oriented who can walk in, prioritize correctly, and help build the systems that make Hard Launch as a whole run smoother. This is one of the highest-leverage things you can do: a tight, smooth ship means we get to do even cooler things.

Strategy & special projects: Our work is strategic and high-impact. We're a thought partner to our companies, advising on everything launch related, and I need someone who genuinely cares about technology, startups, and this larger ecosystem to help carry that. There's a lot of high-leverage stuff we could be doing: bigger events, new collaborations, new initiatives at Hard Launch, and you'll help make it happen.

Creative & Marketing: A big part of the role, but this looks like working directly with me and with our creative partners, video team, and designers to actually bring campaigns and launches to life. Marketing is core to what we do, and you'll be working alongside me to help crack virality for every founder we work with.

What you'll do

• Build and own the systems that keep Hard Launch running, internally and externally, from how we manage client engagements to how we run as a team
• Navigate ambiguity and make things happen no matter what, even when the path isn't clear
• Serve as a thought partner to me on Hard Launch's biggest priorities
• Lead across every part of a launch, creative, marketing, ops, events, making sure nothing falls through the cracks
• Spot bottlenecks across our engagements and fix them before they become problems
• Translate big ideas into real plans, timelines, and shipped work
• Use AI tools to move faster: automate the busywork so we spend more time on the actual creative and strategic work
• Own and drive special projects, from bigger events to new partner collaborations
• Be the reason Hard Launch can take on more, move faster, and do better work

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $75,000–$110,000/year, based on experience
• Location: SF/Bay Area, Hybrid 2-4x in person a week but with flexible schedule
• Health insurance & other core benefits
• Performance bonus
• Equity / carry in the companies we work with, on top of your base

Who you are

• Open to all experience levels, roughly 0-5 years, coming from ops, marketing, creative, or strategy
• Down to hustle, high agency, and hungry to build something big, you'll take this opportunity and run with it
• Detail-oriented and on top of everything: nothing ships sloppy & nothing falls through the cracks. You close loops before anyone has to ask
• Genuinely into marketing, creative, & tech, not just good at it
• You have something of your own. A project, a brand, a newsletter, a page, something you built because you wanted to
• Want to build marketing as a real skill and have some experience already, whether that's an internship, a past role, or something you've run yourself
• Warm, high-energy, and trusted: people want you in the room

Why it's worth it

• A front-row seat to the best startup launches in AI & tech, alongside the best investors and creatives in the world
• Strategic, high-impact, creative work from day one
• Real ownership and a fast path to running things
• The best of all worlds in one seat: creative, marketing, events, and startups



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