[Hiring] Chief of Staff/Special Projects to the CEO @Korrus

Role Description

This is a broad, high-ownership role in the Office of the CEO. You are the person any member of the leadership team can point at a problem. You take the direction, translate it into a plan with an owner, a date, and a definition of done, then make sure it happens.

You will report to the CEO and work daily with the CEO, CFO, and CIO of a global business. In a single week you can work with:

• Product development
• Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Supply chain
• Finance
• A consumer brand going to market

You will be deploying AI across all of it. You will have a direct mandate from the CEO with full visibility.

Qualifications

• You intend to start a company.
• You are looking at entrepreneurship through acquisition.
• You just finished an MBA and you are better than your offer list.
• You did your two years in investment banking or consulting.

Requirements

• Range: Enough engineering, finance, operations, and commercial sense to hold your own in any of those rooms.
• Capacity: You absorb an unreasonable amount quickly and connect it across disciplines.
• Energy: This job is demanding, and the people who do it well want it that way.
• Fearlessness: You will ask the leadership team the question you think sounds dumb.
• Initiative: You figure out the route without waiting for a detailed guide.
• Business acumen, including real comfort with a P&L and the numbers underneath it.
• Genuine fluency with modern AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Two to four years in banking, consulting, private equity, or high-growth operations, or an engineering background.
• No lighting industry experience required.

Benefits

• A direct line to the CEO and CFO of a global business.
• Range across executive leadership, finance, accounting, innovation, engineering, product development, supply chain, manufacturing, operations, and a consumer brand launching into the market.
• The mandate to deploy AI across an entire organization.
• Real operators to learn from in an industry that is being rebuilt around science.
• Two years of experience that will teach you how a company is actually run.

Logistics and Compensation

• Contract Role
• $11,000-$15,000/Monthly DOE
• Remote (US), with meaningful overlap with Pacific working hours and occasional travel to Southern California.
• Reports to the CEO, with a standing mandate to take direction from any member of the leadership team.

To be considered

Send us your resume and, in two or three sentences, tell us about a time you were responsible for something you had no authority over and got it done anyway. We are especially interested in what you did with AI to make it faster.

Finalists complete a short, paid exercise built from a real problem of the kind this job produces every week, so we can see how you work.

Company Description

Korrus is transforming the way people interact with light. We are the leader in human-centric lighting, built on more than 500 patents in spectral and circadian technology.

• Ecosense: A globally known and respected leader in architectural and commercial lighting.
• OIO: Our consumer brand, bringing circadian lighting into the home.
• Everything else in Human Light Interaction: Pushing the limits of what light can do for human health and performance.

We run as a horizontal organization with AI as the backbone.