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Chief of Staff

Exa · San Francisco, California

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Employment
Full time
Level
Executive
Posted
11 months ago

About this role

Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you care about defining how the new AI world consumes knowledge, this is the place for you.

We're looking for a Chief of Staff to be the right hand operator of our founders, doing what is most important for the company. You’d manage everything from company strategy to financial modeling to legal correspondence to recruiting engineers. You'll work with us everyday to make sure the company is moving as fast as we can toward a very important goal.

Who You Are

  • A killer operator with a track record of getting things done well and fast

  • Always available for wild projects

  • Balances speed and attention to detail, knowing when each matters most

  • Excited to wear many hats - recruiting, sales, marketing, finance, legal, and more

  • Care about the problem of finding high quality information and why it matters for the world

  • Bonus: some engineering background

What You’ll Do

  • Support company strategy development

  • Own critical business communications

  • Prepare board meeting decks

  • Run point on special projects that don't fit neatly into any one team

  • Plan and measure company KPIs (e.g., financial modeling, product goals)

  • Conduct research to inform leadership decisions

Logistics

  • Location: This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.

  • Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all over the world. If you receive an offer, our team will work hard to get you a visa.

  • Benefits: We offer premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), fertility benefits, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.

Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, criminal histories consistent with applicable law, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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Skills this posting mentions

Attention to DetailDatabasesHubSpot

About Exa

Exa is an applied AI research lab organizing human knowledge, starting with the web. Exa Search is the highest quality search API at every latency. It accepts natural language queries and produces token-efficient results with citations. Exa Agent is a high-compute web agent that synthesizes information from across the web to handle the most complex deep research, list-building, and enrichment workflows. These products power Cursor, Cognition, Hubspot, OpenRouter, Monday.com, and agents built by over 400,000 developers. We are a worldwide team of engineers and researchers. We're hiring: exa.ai/careers

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