Chief of Staff
US$170,000 – US$250,000 / yr base salary
Posted 15 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Chief of Staff, AI Strategy”
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- Expected experience
- 4–8 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$170,000 – US$250,000 / yr |
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The role
Valkai is compressing drug and device development timelines from months to days, working inside some of the largest pharma and medical device companies in the world. We have grown by staying close to our customers: serving them well, shipping quickly, and deploying agents that become part of how they work every day. The next chapter is scaling that for the growth stage, so the systems, data, and habits behind the business keep compounding alongside the product.
That is the job. As Chief of Staff, you will own and scale the operating machinery behind the business side of Valkai. The right data reaches the right person when a decision needs it. What we learn on one account shows up on the next. Our interview process selects for the people each role needs. Our own operations are as AI-native as the product we sell. You will work directly with the founders and the AI Strategy team, and you will own the problems that sit between functions.
What you'll do
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Business operations: Capture what we learn across accounts and functions, turn it into playbooks, templates, and reusable materials, and make them available right time, right place. Ramp new strategists and sellers on how we work.
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Commercial strategy: Own our point of view on the market. Sharpen the approach and differentiation, run competitor benchmarking, keep the team current on the industry, and maintain the positioning, pricing inputs, and materials the commercial team runs on.
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GTM engineering: Build the data and tooling layer behind our go-to-market. Make sure the right account, contact, usage, and market data is available to the right person at the right time, and automate the work that gets in the way of selling and serving.
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Revenue operations: Organize and systematize the commercial motion. Define pipeline stages and conversion metrics, run the forecast, and assess where we win by segment, territory, and buyer so we can decide where to invest.
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AI-native operations: Treat Valkai as customer zero. Make Valkai context and knowledge accessible to people and to our AI, set the approach for how we build internal automations and agents, and hold the bar on what good looks like.
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Recruiting: Partner with our Talent team so the process selects for the people each role actually needs. Define what great looks like, design the cases and evaluation tools, and instrument the loop so we can see what predicts success.