Chief of Staff

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Chief of Staff

The CEO’s right hand across product, deployments, hiring, and fundraising.

Location San Francisco, CA

• In-office

Experience3-6 years

Compensation~$200K base + equity

The role

We're hiring a Chief of Staff to work directly alongside our CEO across every part of the business: product, deployments, sales, recruiting, and fundraising. The central challenge is taking the company's most important open problems, the ones nobody owns yet, and driving them to a result. You'll own priorities end to end, from the first customer call through the analysis, the decision, and the number it moves.

It's a high-ownership role on a small team, with a direct line to every decision that shapes the company.

What you'll do

• Own Lantern's highest-leverage strategic priorities end to end, with real accountability for the outcome.
• Stand up new functions from nothing and run them: build the first version, own the numbers, scale what works, and help hire the right functional leader at the right time.
• Work across product and deployments, turning what distributors actually need into product decisions and unblocking live implementations.
• Run recruiting for critical hires, from sourcing through close, and help set the bar for who joins this team.
• Support fundraising by building the models, the narrative, and the diligence materials.
• Own the operating cadence: metrics, meeting rhythm, board prep, and investor updates.

What you bring

• 3-6 years in consulting, banking, venture capital, product, or an operating role at a high-growth startup.
• Energized by time with customers. You'll spend real time with distributors, and you're at your best in those conversations.
• A track record of taking on ambiguous, cross-functional work and driving it all the way to a result.
• Strong analytical horsepower: you build the model, pressure-test the assumptions, and can defend the answer.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, from a customer email to a board slide.
• Exceptional with people. You earn trust fast with engineers, customers, candidates, and investors alike.
• An extreme user of AI. Like the rest of our team, you sit on the frontier of AI-enabled work, and you help push that frontier further.
• Bias toward action, high standards, and real ambition about what you want to build.

Nice to have

• Prior Chief of Staff, Biz Ops, strategy, or early GTM experience at a seed to Series B company.
• Exposure to supply chain, distribution, industrials, or B2B software sold to non-technical buyers.

What you'll get

• A founding-era, high-impact role in a massive, under-served market.
• Unfiltered exposure to how a company gets built: customers, board, hiring, pricing.
• The clearest path we have to an executive seat, or to founding your own company.
• Competitive compensation: ~$200K base + equity.
• An office in San Francisco with a tight-knit founding team.

What we value

We hire operators who own outcomes, combining sharp judgment with pragmatic execution and a willingness to do the unglamorous work. Hard work, humility, customer obsession, and pride in a job well done: the values our customers live by, and the values we hire for.

About Lantern Lantern is building the AI-native operating system for the $9T wholesale distribution industry. Billions of dollars sit tied up in stock, yet most distributors still buy on gut feel and spreadsheets. We partner with leading distributors to deliver precise, AI-powered purchasing recommendations that drive 30% leaner inventory, 10% higher sales, and 20+ hours saved per week per user. We've gone from $0 to $5M ARR in 8 months, raised $7M from top VCs, and are hitting hypergrowth.