[Hiring] Chief of Staff @Refine.ink

Role Description

You'll be the founders' eyes and ears, working directly with the two of us - Yann Calvo Lopez (CEO) and Ben Golub (Chief Scientist, formerly a tenured economics professor at Harvard) - on whatever needs doing that week. Our advisors include OpenAI co-founder John Schulman.

• Short term, you take execution work off our plates: the kind that needs context on the whole company.
• Over time, you build the engineering and business context to grow into a managerial role.
• Most of it you'll never have done before. You'll use AI to do it anyway, and do it well.
• It's not an easy job; there's a lot of grunt work, and the pace is very fast.

A typical week:

• A founder has an idea; you run it end to end.
• Prepare the meetings that matter.
• Follow up on everything.
• Run Refine on the documents that matter, and turn the results into something a prospect, partner or investor can act on.
• Make things happen with the team.
• Whatever else needs doing.

How we run:

• Our company memory lives in repositories that AI agents keep current, with a source and a date on every entry.
• Claude is connected to the tools we use - Slack, Drive, Notion, HubSpot, PostHog and more.
• You get full-company context from day one, and so does your AI.

Qualifications

• Highly intelligent, and a fast learner.
• AI-native, with judgment.
• Dedicated; ideally obsessive.
• A clear writer.
• At home in chaos.
• Fluent in English.

Requirements

• Title and years of experience don't matter if this describes you.

Benefits

• AI-native throughout.
• Small team, strong engineering.
• Autonomy.
• Speed.
• Remote-first.
• Respect for users.
• Meritocracy.
• Compensation: competitive.

How we hire

• Written answers to the questions below.
• An exercise close to the real work.
• Conversations with the founders.
• A paid trial: one or two days working with us on real work.

How to apply

Look around refine.ink , then send your CV or LinkedIn with short answers to:

• Tell us about something you'd never done before that you did well with AI. What did you hand to AI, what did you keep, and how did you know it was right?
• What did you get obsessed with, and how far did you take it?
• How you think matters more than polish.