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Chief of Staff — Founder's Office
Founder's Office Strategy, Execution & Cross-functional Leverage
Compensation
INR 50 LPA - 95 LPA base + meaningful equity. Compensation is commensurate with experience, capabilities, and expected contribution; the equity component is intentionally generous because the role compounds.
Engagement
Full-Time
Permanent role. Full-time commitment. Remote-first, with periodic in-person off-sites.
Scope of role
Build the function from zero. Set the strategy. Own the outcome.
01 — The role
Why this role exists at EduRankAI
EduRankAI is a frontier AI and educational intelligence organization working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, research, talent development, and institutional transformation. The Chief of Staff sits inside the Founder's Office and is the highest-leverage non-functional role in the company. This is not an administrative role. It is the seat where strategy meets execution, where ambiguous problems get resolved into shippable plans, and where the founder's bandwidth is multiplied by someone who can be trusted with anything from a board memo to a hiring loop to a partner negotiation. The Chief of Staff has no formal team and unlimited scope. The right person for this role will look at the company in three months and see their fingerprint on at least six different functions — and at six months will have made themselves indispensable in ways that did not exist in the original job description. You'll thrive here if: you treat ambiguity as a resource, not a problem. You read drafts of other people's writing for sport. You can run a hiring loop in the morning, a partner call at lunch, and a market-sizing analysis in the afternoon — and you would rather do that than specialize. You understand that the highest-leverage role in a frontier company is the one nobody wrote a job spec for, and you can write that spec for yourself. You'll struggle here if: you measure your impact by org-chart depth. You need a clear remit handed to you. You think founders should outsource judgment. You write memos that nobody opens.
02 — The work
What you will own
- 01 Work directly with the Founder on strategic and organizational priorities — daily.
- 02 Drive execution of high-impact initiatives across multiple functions (research, AI platform, product, partnerships, hiring).
- 03 Conduct first-principles research and analysis on markets, technology, education, policy, partnerships, and organizational development.
- 04 Coordinate cross-functional projects and own delivery against deadlines that the rest of the company is watching.
- 05 Develop executive briefings, board memos, public communications, and decision-support materials — at a quality the Founder would publish under their own name.
- 06 Support institutional partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and strategic collaborations (governments, universities, donor agencies, research labs).
- 07 Lead leadership hiring loops alongside the People function — sourcing, calibration, panel design, closing.
- 08 Identify operational bottlenecks across the company and design scalable solutions you then drive to implementation.
- 09 Monitor progress against organizational goals and KPIs; surface drift early.
- 10 Hold confidential and mission-critical projects requiring discretion and sound judgment.
03 — The expertise
What we look for
04 — The bar
Who thrives here
- → You have founded a company, run a strategy or operations function at a serious startup, or held a Chief of Staff role at a frontier-AI or frontier-tech organization. Equivalent paths considered.
- → You can describe in writing a $50k+ decision you made (or strongly influenced) and what the second-order consequence was.
- → You write memos that other people open and forward. You can point at one.
- → You have run a hiring loop end-to-end (sourcing, calibration, panel, close) and you have hired at least two Senior or Staff-tier people who stayed past 18 months.
- → You can read a research paper, identify the load-bearing claim in 30 minutes, and brief a non-technical reader on it in 200 words.
- → You hold contradictions productively — you can argue for two opposing positions in writing and articulate where each is right.
- → You are comfortable being the most junior person in the room AND the most senior person on the call, often in the same hour.
05 — How we work
The EduRankAI environment
Remote-first, async-first
Work from anywhere. We optimise for deep work, not face time. Periodic in-person off-sites for the full-time team.
High autonomy, high standards
We hire adults and trust them. You will be expected to set your own goals, communicate clearly, and ship.
Builders, not bureaucrats
We optimise for clarity over process. Make the call, ship the work, write up what you learned.
Bharat-built, globally ambitious
We are an Indian frontier AI lab. We build for India first and the world second — in that order.
06 — Hiring process
What to expect after you apply
- 01
Application review
Every application is read personally within five business days. We respond either way.
- 02
Take-home or live exercise
Role-specific. Time-boxed. Real problems we are actually working on, not invented puzzles.
- 03
Conversations
Deep technical and values conversations with the team you would join. No trick questions. No panel ambushes.
- 04
Offer or honest no
If yes: digital offer letter, signed in-portal, transparent terms. If no: written feedback if you want it.
Before you start
What we will collect. What it costs. What we will not do with it.
Application fee
CHF 100
C-Level tier
We will collect
- Name, email, phone — Account + application updates. No marketing.
- Resume / portfolio link — Human review of your work.
- Date + place of birth — Identity verification only.
- Your written responses — Selection rubric. Read by humans.
- Government ID (later) — Anti-fraud at offer / interview stage. Not at signup.
We will never
- Sell your data
- Share with third-party recruiters
- Use for advertising
- Train models on it
- Send marketing email
Our situation
EduRankAI is a small, independent organization building long-term capabilities in educational intelligence, advanced AI systems, and research infrastructure. We take no advertiser money, no donations with strings attached, and no investor pressure on hiring decisions. The small per-application fee covers the real cost of processing your application — human review, identity verification, infrastructure, reviewer time. It buys us the right to be honest. Genuine financial hardship? Request a fee waiver inside the application — reviewed individually within 5 business days, with no record in your file and no second-class treatment of waiver-granted applications.
Ready to apply?
We read every application personally. If you are the right person for this role — regardless of pedigree, background, or where you are based — you will hear back from us within five business days.
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