Chief of Staff

Core

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• Open role

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Turn the founder's attention into follow-through.

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You run the operating cadence, own what happens after a decision is made, and coordinate work across Labs, Studios, and Systems. You help the founder get more done, without taking over his decisions.

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Remote-first

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• EU / CET overlap  
• Contract or full-time

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Mission

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What the role does and why it matters here.

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Lucentive runs on decisions made once and followed through, not relitigated every week. You make that true. You run the operating cadence, the reviews and check-ins that actually need to exist, and you own what happens after a decision is made: who does what, by when, and what changes if they don't. You sit close to the founder without filtering his judgment: you decide what reaches him, what gets handled underneath him, and what has to move across Labs, Studios, and Systems.

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Responsibilities

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What you would own.

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Run the operating cadence

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Run the operating cadence: the recurring reviews and check-ins that keep the pillars honest, and cut the ones that have stopped earning their slot.

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Own decision follow-through

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Own decision follow-through, track what was decided, who owns it, and surface it again the moment it stalls, not the moment it's overdue.

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Coordinate across the pillars

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Coordinate work that crosses Labs, Studios, and Systems, where no single pillar has the authority or context to close the loop alone.

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Prepare the founder

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Prepare the founder for the conversations that matter: the brief that lets him walk in already knowing the one thing he needs to know.

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Triage what reaches him

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Triage what reaches the founder directly against what a written decision or a delegated call can resolve without him.

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Own the written record

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Own the written record of each operating cycle: what was decided and why, so decisions don't get remade from memory months later.

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How you think and work

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Six traits the work demands.

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Pedigree isn't the filter. Disposition is. The six traits below are what the work actually asks of you.

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• 01 Agentic intuition  

  You read agents the way a manager reads a direct report: when to trust the output, when to interrupt the run, when to take the wheel back.

  You know which of the founder's AI-drafted decisions are ready to execute and which ones need a human read before they go anywhere.

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• 02 Critical thinking  

  Confident-sounding output gets the same scrutiny as anything else, your own work included.

  You've caught a decision that sounded settled in the room but wasn't actually resolved, and said so before it caused a problem.

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• 03 Curiosity  

  You pull on threads. You read outside the lane. You follow a question past the first plausible answer.

  You ask why a recurring meeting still exists before you ask what's on this week's agenda.

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• 04 Agency  

  You move without being told. You decide, ship, own the call. No one has to write the playbook for you.

  You've closed a loop across two teams that neither one owned, because otherwise it would have sat open indefinitely.

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• 05 Systems thinking, long view  

  You see how the parts connect, and where this goes in three years.

  You design the cadence knowing the version that works at a handful of people breaks once Lucentive is bigger, and you build for that version.

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• 06 Leadership instinct  

  You orchestrate work across humans, agents, and stakeholders. You switch register between a workspace ticket, an architect call, and a senior bank room in the same day without losing what you came in to say.

  You keep a founder's priorities clear across a Labs standup, a Studios board prep, and a Systems client call in the same day.

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Useful background

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• You have run point on operating cadence or chief-of-staff-style work for a founder or senior executive, not just supported their calendar.  
• You write a decision memo or follow-up note a busy founder can act on without a meeting to unpack it.  
• You can track context across genuinely different businesses at once without flattening them into one operating model.  
• You chase a stalled decision without needing to be told twice that it's stalled.  
• You exercise judgment about what needs the founder's attention and what doesn't, and you're right often enough to be trusted with it.  
• You've worked inside a multi-entity or multi-business-line structure where coordination costs were real, not theoretical.  
• You've built or run an operating cadence (weekly reviews, check-ins, board prep) from scratch.  
• You've been the person a founder trusted with unfinished thoughts and turned them into a plan.

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Pedigree in your exact field isn't the filter. The disposition above is.

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Logistics

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How the role is set up.

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Location Remote-first. EU/CET overlap expected, Portugal hub available.

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Engagement Contract or full-time.

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Start Flexible, discussed in the written exchange.

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Language English.

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