Collinear AI
Chief of Staff
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 18, 2026
About the job
Partners with the CEO to turn company priorities into strategic decisions, coordinated execution, and measurable results at an AI research lab building simulated worlds and evaluations for AI agents.
What you'll do
- Drive company priorities, operating cadence, and cross-functional projects from diagnosis through delivery.
- Assess markets, pricing, partnerships, and resource allocation using customer input, research, and quantitative analysis; prepare decision and investor materials.
- Build and improve AI-assisted workflows for research, reporting, and operations, and help the organization scale its ways of working.
What they ask for
- Track record of delivering difficult, loosely defined projects with measurable results in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong analytical judgment, including working with data and business economics and explaining conclusions clearly.
- Technical curiosity and fluency to learn AI training, evaluations, and agent workflows and collaborate with researchers and engineers.
- Excellent writing and communication, initiative, discretion, dependable follow-through, and practical experience using AI tools while checking their outputs and limits.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI infrastructure, enterprise customers, data operations, or a technical founder-led company.
AI focus
Build and improve AI-assisted workflows for research, reporting, and operations; evaluate their accuracy and usefulness, retain human judgment where it matters, and use AI tools practically while checking their outputs and limitations.
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