Chief of Staff for Series A Tech Company

Kinetic Kinetic

Kinetic

Full-time

New York City

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Summary

We’re hiring a Chief of Staff for Kinetic.

Great summary - What the heck is Kinetic?

Kinetic is an AI native incubator backed by Google Ventures, Point72, Alexis Ohanian, and others.

Why you should keep reading:

We launched in March 2025, have 8 employees, and closed a $20M series A in August.

What we do: We build and scale consumer apps fast. In our first six months we launched a top 10 Finance app and a top 25 Health and Fitness app. We incubate our own ideas and scale them from 1 to 100.

The perfect person for this job

You worked in consulting or similar
Then you spent 2+ years at VC backed startups as a Chief of Staff
You want to join a killer team and apply what you have learned to scale a business
(Bonus) - if you are a former founder yourself.

Why This Role Exists

We are growing insanely fast and our CEO (the guy who wrote this) is unskilled in some critical things like: building processes + internal systems, setting clear OKRs across a series of businesses, + creating repeatable structures.

To keep our speed, we need someone who:

Creates the systems for how we build and spin up new companies
Owns internal projects from start to finish without hand-holding
Makes the CEO and the whole team more effective

Reporting Structure

You report directly to the CEO - Justin Silver
You work across the entire portfolio of incubated companies
You partner with engineering, growth, product, and design
You operate with a lot of ownership and very little oversight

The quick pitch on Justin the CEO

You will work with Justin Silver - LinkedIn. His career:

Built Brooklinen out of college as first employee + CMO into a 9-figure PE exit
Then scaled a FinTech bank called Albert - 20 million customers
Then Co-founded the best selling filtered shower head - Afina
Then founded Kinetic in March 2025.

Your Core Responsibilities

Build the operating system for Kinetic. How we find ideas, pressure test them, and turn them into real products and companies.
Create planning systems we actually stick to. Annual plans, quarterly goals, monthly targets, OKRs.
Design how the team works every day. Standups. Retros. Rituals. The stuff that keeps an 8-person team shipping like a 50-person team.
Keep us aligned as humans. Monthly check-ins. All-hands. Offsites.
Own all investor communication. Monthly updates, quarterly board decks, memos.
Bring discipline to Notion so it becomes our real source of truth instead of a junk drawer.
Run the critical internal projects. New entities, breaking out finances by company, stock options, selling an asset, and anything else that pops up.
Build the hiring engine for Kinetic and the companies we spin out.
Take messy ideas from me and turn them into clear plans with owners, timelines, and actual outcomes.

Who You Are

Your Background:

Former consultant or similar background
Then at least 2 years inside a startup doing Chief of Staff work

Non-Negotiables:

Experience in consumer focused company
Experience "managing' a high velocity founder
Deep analytical experience building process that ADDS velocity to business outcomes
5+ Years of experience
Characteristics - everyone at Kinetic has these traits

What You Will Not Do

You are not a project manager only
You are not a note taker
You are not a babysitter
You are not an EA

You are here to force multiply, run projects autonomously and make the CEO and the whole org more effective.

Compensation and Path

Equity in Kinetic
Salary 150k to 200k
Health, dental, vision fully covered
All meals covered daily + unlimited stocked fridge with whatever you want
2k monthly stipend for therapy, commuting, gym, whatever helps you stay healthy and effective
4 weeks paid vacation (that we all take)

This role can evolve into several paths depending on how you perform and what you want. You can stay Chief of Staff. You can become a GM of one of our companies. You can grow into a COO style role.