Chief of Staff
Chief of Staff at Nirvana — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Nirvana
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $180,000–$300,000 a year
- Posted: 2026-08-03
About this role
Who we are:
Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.
We’ve already proven the scale—serving thousands of fleets and more than doubling our written premiums year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 30 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.
With $270+ million raised, including our Series D round in December 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Glassdoor, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Nationwide, The Hartford, and RLI.
The role
As Chief of Staff, you’d sit at the center of the business and work directly with Rushil on the most strategic initiatives across the company. You’d scale how we operate, solve the most critical problems and define new avenues for growth, especially where ownership is unclear.
This is NOT a coordination role. We’re looking for someone who can operate in ambiguous and demanding environments, holds extremely high standards and has the ability to move from board-level strategy to execution detail without compromise.
For the right person who wants to build, this is the perfect accelerant to owning your own P&L, ideally within Nirvana as we continue to expand or even beyond. Success here isn’t being in this role forever - it’s the opportunity to start something with Rushil’s full backing.
Responsibilities include:
- Drive clarity around critical decisions, separate signal from noise and follow-through until they become outcomes
- Own high-priority projects and cross-functional initiatives that don’t have a natural home yet
- Scale our operating rhythms with a high bar for impact - business reviews, off-sites, planning and more
- Proactively identify and solve bottlenecks across the company
- Run board and investor prep, and help shape how we tell our story externally
Who we're looking for
- 5+ years experience in high-ownership roles: we’re not wedded to a specific pedigree, we want smart generalists from the likes of consulting, finance, product, business operations, military, founder/CEO office, etc. Most important is to have operating experience in fast-moving environments
- Previous founding experience strongly preferred, even if it didn’t work
- Strategic and analytical thinker
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Bias-to-action and self-driven: you move fast and build things yourself with an AI-native mindset
- Thrive in high-growth environments with limited direction
- Very high judgment and maturity with sensitive, high-stakes information
- High agency, low ego: you’re willing to do whatever the company needs
- Executive presence and influence: you can push back, when necessary, on experienced leaders
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Medical, dental & vision insurance (100% employer paid)
- 401k with up to 4% company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Wellness reimbursement
We set our salary ranges using compensation data from companies similar to our stage and size. For this role, the estimated total cash for this position is $180,000- $300,000. The actual total cash salary will vary depending on multiple factors unique to each candidate, including location, job-related knowledge, transferable skills, work experience and our assessment of your level during the interview process. Nirvana offers equity for all full-time employees, which is not included in the range listed above and will have an impact on your overall compensation.
If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. We'd like to consider you for this position and roles that may be a fit in the future.
Nirvana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Nirvana considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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