Chief of Staff

About Entangl and Role Overview

Entangl, Inc. is developing a foundational operating system aimed at critical infrastructure, initially focusing on data centers. The company seeks an outstanding Chief of Staff to partner closely with the founder and translate the company's bold ambitions into actionable outcomes.

This position demands proactive leadership beyond a typical strategic or meeting facilitator role. The Chief of Staff will be responsible for prioritizing key issues, propelling initiatives forward, and accelerating the company’s progress.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate intimately with the founder on the company’s top-priority challenges.
• Convert broad strategic objectives into precise plans with designated owners, deadlines, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional projects from unclear beginnings to successful completion.
• Detect potential issues early to prevent costly consequences.
• Relentlessly track progress and ensure completion of commitments.
• Identify and highlight uncomfortable truths, missed deadlines, weak logic, or execution risks ahead of time.
• Ensure decisions made during meetings translate into tangible actions.
• Prepare the founder for pivotal conversations with customers, investors, and during strategic negotiations.
• Conduct research and analysis to support major organizational decisions.
• Assist in recruiting, evaluating, and securing outstanding talent.
• Enhance internal communication, accountability, and information flow.
• Develop systems that reduce overreliance on the founder.
• Tackle urgent or overlooked problems and swiftly establish order.
• Represent the founder in sensitive discussions requiring trust and judgment.
• Take ownership of essential projects lacking clear responsibility.

Indicators of Success

• Accelerated progress on the company's highest priorities.
• Improved quality and timeliness of key decisions.
• Consistent completion of commitments.
• Earlier identification of problems.
• Increased clarity and accountability across teams.
• More of the founder's time freed for value-generating work.
• Durable systems that function without constant oversight.
• Growing trust in the Chief of Staff to handle critical decisions.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional ownership, resourcefulness, decisiveness, and the ability to switch effectively between strategic thinking and detailed execution. Strong organization skills combined with flexibility, directness, honesty, and sound judgment are essential. They thrive under pressure, prioritize outcomes over recognition, hold high standards of performance, and can foster trust across diverse stakeholders.

Preferred backgrounds include entrepreneurship, early-stage startups, operations, consulting, investing, engineering, product management, or military leadership. Demonstrated capability, sound judgment, and rapid growth trajectory matter more than traditional qualifications.

Fit and Misfit for this Role

This role is unsuitable for individuals who require clearly defined responsibilities upfront, prefer advisory roles to hands-on execution, avoid accountability or conflict, equate long hours with productivity, desire frequent recognition, or seek roles with narrow scopes or minimal challenge.

Work Culture and Expectations

Entangl operates rapidly but values thoughtful action. The company expects independent thinkers who communicate candidly, safeguard its reputation, care deeply for customers, and take full ownership of their work. The Chief of Staff must exercise exceptional discretion, integrity, and strong judgment, sometimes challenging leadership when needed but fully committing to decisions once finalized.

Application Instructions

Applicants should avoid generic letters and instead address the following prompts:

• A significant problem taken ownership of without requests.
• An ambiguous project delivered successfully.
• An experience challenging senior leadership and the outcome.
• An example of a system or process created that sustained itself without the creator’s involvement.
• Views on what a Chief of Staff should accomplish beyond common expectations.
• Key areas to investigate within Entangl during the initial month.

Entangl seeks candidates demonstrating judgment, proactive ownership, intensity, honesty, and execution ability. This position offers the potential to become highly influential as trust and results build.