Chief of Staff

About Spawn

The role

What you'll own

• People ops & HR. Onboarding and offboarding, benefits, payroll coordination, PTO, employee records, IACs and offer letters, the eternal task of making sure everyone has the equipment and access they need on day one.
• Accounts payable & finance ops. Invoices, expense reports, reimbursements, corporate cards, working with our bookkeeper and accountant, keeping the books clean enough that we never scramble before a board meeting.
• Vendor management. Software subscriptions, infrastructure providers, contractors, office services. Knowing what we pay for, why, and whether we still need it.
• Legal coordination. Working with outside counsel on contracts, NDAs, contractor agreements, IP assignments, and the assorted legal cleanup that accumulates at a young company.
• Logistics & scheduling. The CEO's calendar, team offsites, travel, candidate interview loops, investor meetings, the physical space.
• Whatever else is on fire. This role is defined by surface area, not scope.

Who you are

• You have 3+ years of operational experience at a startup, in consulting, in finance, or in a similar high-rigor environment. Title doesn't matter; track record does.
• You write clearly and concisely. You can draft an investor update, a vendor email, and an offer letter in the same hour and they all sound right.
• You are absurdly organized. Things do not fall through the cracks on your watch. If they do, you have a system that catches them next time.
• You are discreet. You will see compensation, fundraising, performance, and personal information. None of it leaves the room.
• You are low-ego and service-oriented. The reward for this role is leverage and trust, not credit.
• You are technical enough to learn new tools quickly and not afraid of spreadsheets, contracts, or basic SQL.
• Bonus: you've played and loved at least one deep simulation or sandbox game. You'll be working on one.

Why this role is good

• You'll work directly with the CEO every day and have visibility into every part of the company — engineering, fundraising, hiring, strategy, legal, finance.
• You'll build the operational foundation of a company that we believe is building something genuinely new. The systems you put in place will compound.
• The role grows with you. The first version is generalist execution. The second version, if you want it, is whatever you make it — Head of Ops, BizOps, People, or your own thing.
• Compensation is competitive: meaningful equity and an SF-market salary.

Compensation