Chief of Staff
Chief of Staff at Variance — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Variance
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 140–200 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We're looking for a Chief of Staff who is highly driven, organized, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited to join us in-person in San Francisco to help build and scale the company.
You'll work directly with the CEO and set the cadence for how the company operates. You'll own end-to-end execution on whatever needs to happen, from hiring to new initiatives, finance, hiring and day-to-day operations. We're a lean team, which means you'll make the call on what happens and how it gets done.
What you’ll do
Own internal operations for finances, HR and more
Run operations and handle admin work (payroll, expenses, vendor management, all the stuff that needs to get done)
Hiring/sourcing candidates, running interviews, closing offers, onboarding new hires
Execute new initiatives and special projects for growth, sales, marketing, and partnerships
Support the enterprise GTM motion
Build and automate processes and systems as we scale
This is a high-leverage role for someone who wants to be a world-class operator. You'll get your reps executing across recruiting, marketing, operations, customer development, and more. As we grow, so will the responsibilities and opportunities for this role.
Who you are
Extremely organized, you’re able to maintain simple processes for keeping tabs on many parallel threads, and have a strong intuition for when to be scrappy vs. processized
Comfortable with ambiguity, you don't need a playbook, you write it and figure out what needs to happen
Founder mentality, you think and act with high ownership, building with us rather than just executing for us
Bias towards action, you move fast, make calls with limited data, fix things in real time, and rarely get blocked
Strong operator with startup, consulting, or investing experience, you've seen how great organizations operate and can execute at that level
High ownership, you own outcomes, not just tasks, and feel it personally when something doesn't ship
Bias for action and urgency, you have a visceral sense of discomfort when the ball sits in your court too long
Highly autonomous, you make most decisions yourself, don't wait for permission, and move fast
Strong generalist, you want to get your reps across different disciplines from recruiting to event planning to operations
No task is beneath you, you'll update the cap table, run payroll, and take pride in optimizing tedious work
Strong product sense and taste, you understand what makes software feel great
Love technology and startups, you automate yourself from processes where you’re not needed, you aren’t scared of using AI tools and you love the ambiguity of startups