Chief of Staff

About

Hanover Park builds AI systems that run the financial operations of the world's most sophisticated investment firms. As an AI-enabled service and fund administrator, we've become the way fund CFOs adopt AI. We've raised $31 million from Emergence (investor in Salesforce/Zoom), Susa (investor in Robinhood/Flexport) and angel investor fund CFOs from Bain Capital, Clearlake, CD&R, and Hellman & Friedman.

Our mission is to be the financial infrastructure to orchestrate how the world's capital is operated, governed and allocated. Stripe for payments. Ramp for expenses. Hanover Park for investments. In the next decade, the AI systems we build will advise $100B investment firms on their largest acquisitions and eventually unlock alpha for investors.

The Role

Serve as the CEO's right hand to translate founder priorities into clear owners, deadlines, and execution. Lead cross-functional initiatives, run special projects end-to-end, build and maintain internal operating systems and dashboards, own staffing/pod allocation and the company financial model, and ensure follow-through across product, recruiting, finance, and ops.

We're ~40 people scaling to ~100 by year end. Chris (CEO) is running sales, product, and the company at the same time. That doesn't scale. Too many cross-functional priorities live in Chris's head. Initiatives get started and stall. Owners aren't always clear. Follow-through is inconsistent not because the team isn't good, but because no one's job is to make sure things land.

As Chief of Staff, you're the connective tissue between Chris's priorities and the org's execution. You run the operating system that keeps a fast-growing company from losing things in the gaps. This is a high-trust, high-visibility role with more context on what matters and why than almost anyone at the company.

Responsibilities

• Launch special projects end to end: scoping, staffing, tracking, and closing them out
• Own staffing and pod allocation across services teams
• Build capacity, utilization, and performance visibility for fund accounting and services
• Turn founder priorities into owners, deadlines, and execution plans
• Run follow-through on cross-functional initiatives across product, recruiting, finance, and ops
• Resolve operational loose ends before they escalate to CEO
• Own launch readiness and outstanding-item tracking across the business
• Drive and own the company financial model
• Build and maintain internal operating system: dashboards, trackers, live priority views
• Create accountability loops for directors and functional owners

Requirements

• Ability to context-switch across finance, ops, product, and people without losing the thread
• Strong financial modeling skills: can build and own a model, not just read one
• High ownership: catch risks before they fall through cracks
• Comfort operating with incomplete information and tight timelines
• Instinct for when to escalate or handle independently
• Background as ex-founder, chief of staff at a hypergrowth company, or ex-investment banker
• Nice to have: Familiarity with private markets, fund administration, or financial services
• Experience building internal operating infrastructure from scratch
• Prior exposure to Series A or B company scaling through growth inflection

This isn't the right fit if

• You want a well-defined job description that doesn't change week to week
• You need explicit direction to know highest priority
• Prefer analyzing problems over owning resolution
• You want a 12-month ramp before carrying real responsibility

Why now

The next 12 months determine whether Hanover Park scales cleanly or under strain. This role will have more visibility into company operations than almost anyone outside the founding team. What you build becomes the operating infrastructure for a company managing more capital than most banks.

Compensation & Benefits Highlights

• Career-linked recognition and rewards tied to urgency, ownership, and performance typical of startups