Chief of Staff

Job Description

VVater is America’s Next Water Company, delivering the future of purification through its award-winning Farady Reactor (CES Best of Innovation 2025, World Future Award 2025, Time Best Invention Award 2025), proprietary ALTEP (Advanced Low Tension Electroporation Process), Advanced Dissolved Air Flotation, and Micro & Nano Bubble technologies. Unlike outdated chemical, filter, and membrane systems, VVater’s electric‑field breakthroughs eliminate PFAS, microplastics, microorganisms, and other contaminants with record retention times, without toxic byproducts or costly consumables.

With over 4.3B gallons treated and validation from global leaders, VVater is scaling into municipal drinking water and wastewater, DPR/IPR, onsite reuse for data centers, commercial buildings, resorts, residential purification, and consumer health water, delivering a 60% smaller footprint, 40% Cap Ex savings, 80% OpEx savings, and 40% less energy use.

THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION BASED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS - NO REMOTE OR HYBRID AVAILABILITY FOR THIS POSITION.

The Chief of Staff is the force multiplier to the Chairman & CEO. You are the operator, builder, integrator, and proxy. You take the commander’s broad intent and high‑level direction from the CEO and translate them into tactical plans that you then execute, often with little oversight and significant ambiguity.

This is not a strategy role. This is not a deck role. This is a hands‑on operating seat in a hardware manufacturing company that makes physical products in a physical factory and ships them to physical customers. You will spend time on the shop floor as often as you spend it in the boardroom. You will jump into sales when a deal is stuck, into marketing when a launch is slipping, into finance when a vendor needs to be renegotiated, into engineering when a project is off‑spec, and into HR when a sensitive personnel issue lands on the CEO’s desk.

You are the person who walks in, sees a broken process, and quietly fixes it before anyone else notices it was broken.

• An operator's seat in a vertically integrated hardware and manufacturing company
• A builder's role, you will design, deploy, and own systems, SOPs, dashboards, and internal tools
• AI‑native, you live in modern AI tools and use them to multiply your output by 10x
• Cross‑functional by design, sales, marketing, ops, finance, engineering, HR all flow through this seat
• A confidential information broker who sees everything and discloses nothing without authorization
• A future executive, the path from this seat leads to C‑suite roles as VVater scales

This role is not an executive assistant (we have separate EA support), not a consulting role, not a pure strategy role, not a 9‑to‑5, and not a seat for someone who needs a defined process to function.

First 30 Days:

• Full command of VVater's business, the technology, the customers, the financials, the org chart, the factory floor, and the current strategic priorities
• Trusted relationships established with the executive team and key managers
• CEO's operating cadence (meetings, decisions, action items) actively owned and running cleanly
• Quick wins shipped, small fires put out within the first two weeks

First 90 Days:

• A documented operating system in place for how the executive office runs
• Two to three strategic initiatives owned end‑to‑end and driving toward measurable outcomes
• AI‑powered internal tools, dashboards, or agent workflows built and deployed where they save time
• Decision briefs and weekly executive reporting cadence established
• CEO has reclaimed meaningful time for high‑leverage external work, investors, customers, and strategic partnerships

By the End of Year 1:

• VVater operates with measurably better…