Chief of Staff || Fast Track to COO
About
We’re hiring a Chief of Staff for a VC-backed, product-led SaaS company at the seed stage (12 people). This is a true founder proxy role, not a support function. You’ll work directly with the CEO and help shape how the company scales across GTM, operations, product, hiring, and strategic execution.
This role offers unfair exposure, real ownership, and a genuine COO / VP / founder trajectory.
Your Impact
You will help design and execute the next phase of growth for the company. You'll shape how the team operates internally, how strategy turns into execution, and how the company scales from a tight early-stage team into a high-performing organisation. This role touches every critical function in the business.
What You’ll Do
- Work directly with the CEO on company priorities, strategic planning, and cross-functional alignment
- Act as a founder proxy across key initiatives (commercial, product, ops, hiring)
- Lead high-impact special projects (e.g. preparing for major deals, scoping partnerships, launching new GTM initiatives)
- Build internal systems and processes (dashboards, hiring pipelines, execution frameworks)
- Support investor updates and strategic reporting
- Partner with customers to translate insights into product and GTM strategy
You won’t be observing the business. You’ll be running parts of it.
Who You Are
- Scrappy, high-agency, and self-directed
- A ruthless prioritiser who knows what actually matters
- Comfortable in ambiguity and early-stage chaos
- Naturally takes ownership and drives things to completion
- Thinks like an operator, not an advisor
You enjoy being in the detail and the big picture at the same time.
What You’ll Need
- Prior experience in a high-velocity environment
- (Founder, early operator, Chief of Staff, consulting, or product-adjacent role)
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- Proven ability to structure messy problems and execute
Bonus Points
- Experience supporting enterprise or complex sales motions
- Product intuition around SaaS, AI, developer tools, or automation
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects end-to-end
Location & Comp
📍 Paris-based
💰 up to 85k base + equity
Why This Role Is Special
This is not a corporate Chief of Staff role. This is a founder's apprenticeship at a VC-backed, product-led company in a category with huge tailwinds, with real ownership and career leverage.
In 2 years, you’ll either be running major parts of the business or be perfectly positioned to become a COO, VP, or founder yourself.
If you’re ambitious and want a seat where your work genuinely shapes the company, this is one of those rare roles.
Founded in October 2020, Growth exists to do one thing: help ambitious SaaS companies hire better, faster, and smarter. We partner with founders and revenue leaders to turn hiring into a repeatable competitive advantage from first GTM hires to executive benches that can carry you to IPO. We work across EMEA and the Americas, placing top talent in Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Pre-Sales, Product, Operations, Engineering, and Leadership. Beyond filling roles, we help design the hiring plan,
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