About the job Chief of Staff — Sphinx Labs
Chief of Staff — Sphinx Labs
Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite, 5 days/week)
Compensation: $120,000 – $160,000 base + 0.05% – 0.15% equity
Visa Sponsorship: None available
Experience Level: 0–4 years
Employment Type: Full-Time
About Sphinx Labs
Sphinx Labs builds AI compliance analysts that automate AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring across banks and fintechs. The product helps institutions eliminate up to 90% of manual compliance work, reduce costs 4x, and dramatically accelerate onboarding. Trusted by financial institutions across the US, Canada, Europe, and LatAm — with seven-figure bank contracts already closed and an undefeated competitive win rate in live deals. Seed-stage fintech AI company founded in 2024.
About the Role
Sphinx is hiring a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO as a true right-hand operator across the business. This is a builder-owner role spanning strategy, GTM, operations, hiring, partnerships, and product launches. The growth path is intentionally broad, with the opportunity to evolve into ownership of GTM or other core business functions as the company scales.
What You'll Own
- Work directly with the CEO across sales, GTM, marketing, product, operations, people, and strategy
- Own projects currently sitting on the CEO's plate and drive them to completion
- Manage CEO inbox, calendar, communications, and execution priorities
- Lead strategic initiatives including hiring loops, product launches, partnership evaluations, and internal operations
- Participate in client calls, conferences, and deal cycles
- Help build foundational processes for future teams
- Grow into GTM ownership over time alongside leadership
Requirements
- 0–4 years of total professional experience
- Exceptional structured thinking and attention to detail
- Strong communication and clear articulation of tradeoffs
- High ownership with comfort operating in ambiguity
- Willingness to handle both strategic projects and unglamorous execution work
- Top-tier university strongly preferred (MIT, Harvard, Berkeley caliber)
- Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco immediately — paid relocation offered
Target Backgrounds
Strong signals include MBB consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG), top-tier investment banking (Goldman, Evercore, Morgan Stanley, PJT, Centerview, Lazard), venture capital, strategic operations or Chief of Staff roles at high-growth startups, founder or startup builder backgrounds, and quantitative or technical degrees (engineering, CS, math, economics).
Ideal profiles: MBB consultant with 1–3 years strong performance, top-tier IB analyst, strategic ops at a Series A/B startup with direct founder exposure, or structured high-output generalist operator comfortable in founder-chaos environments.
This Role Is NOT For
- Sales-heavy backgrounds
- Pure management profiles
- Big-company lifers without startup adaptability
- Low-ownership candidates who need structure
- Candidates unwilling to operate fully onsite in SF
Interview Process
- Pending approval
- Initial screen
- Case study
- Short paid in-person trial
- Offer
Logistics
- Role is fully onsite in San Francisco — 5 days/week — please only apply if you can commit to this
- Paid relocation offered for out-of-market candidates
- No visa sponsorship available
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Sphinx Labs.