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Chief of Staff, AI Strategy

Valkai· AI Strategy
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Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)Full TimePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Chief of Staff role focused on building and scaling the operating machinery behind Valkai’s business side, working with founders and the AI Strategy team to connect insights across accounts, functions, and processes, and to drive AI-native operations, GTM, revenue operations, and organizational cadence.

Responsibilities

  • Business operations: Capture learnings across accounts and functions, turn them into playbooks, templates, and reusable materials; ramp new strategists and sellers on how we work.
  • Commercial strategy: Own market point of view, sharpen differentiation, conduct competitor benchmarking, keep industry knowledge current, maintain positioning, pricing inputs, and materials for the commercial team.
  • GTM engineering: Build data and tooling layer behind go-to-market; ensure account, contact, usage, and market data are available to the right people and automate selling/serving workflows.
  • Revenue operations: Define pipeline stages and conversion metrics, run forecasts, assess performance by segment/territory/buyer to guide investments.
  • AI-native operations: Treat Valkai as customer zero; make context and knowledge accessible to people and AI; set approach for internal automations and agents; define quality standards.
  • Recruiting: Partner with Talent team to define success for roles, design evaluation tools, and instrument feedback loops to predict success.
  • Operating cadence and corporate: Manage planning, goals, scorecards, leadership meetings; build board/investor materials; scale people functions and strategy for future growth.

Qualifications

  • 4 to 8+ years of experience (flexible) ideally mix of consulting, banking, investing and time at an early-stage startup; strong professional-services background also acceptable if top performer.
  • Track record of building systems or processes that are adopted (e.g., CRM, dashboards, hiring loops, planning cadences).
  • Comfort with data and systems: spreadsheets, CRM, ATS, knowledge base.
  • Exposure to enterprise B2B software; life sciences experience is a plus but not required.
  • Daily hands-on use of tools like Claude Code and Codex in work; some experience building with them.

Skills

Required:Problem solving in cross-functional environmentsSystems thinking and scalable process designAI-native tooling and automation

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
  • Generous PTO policy.
  • Paid parental leave.
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Valkai

Agent Systems for Life Sciences

Valkai brings life back to life sciences — Agent Systems that coordinate and automate complex workflows across teams.

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