Chief of Staff to the CEO

🏢 Windborne Systems · 📍 RWC HQ · 💼 onsite · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

The role

I'm John, CEO of WindBorne. I have more things I want to do than time to do them, so I need two functions covered: a chief of staff who is real operating leverage — taking meetings in my place, moving things forward without me, making calls on my behalf — and the EA work of calendar, travel, and the small well-defined tasks.

The complication is AI. It can do a lot of what an EA does, but not everything, and humans are still really valuable in a lot of ways. What I actually want is a combination: a human plus AI automations, where the human can close the feedback loop and build the automations themselves. The catch is that building those automations usually takes a software engineer, and a traditional EA usually won't know how.

I don't know what the right setup is yet — a person, software, or some mix. Part of this job is helping me figure that out, and you may have to do EA-like work until we do. Right now one of our software engineers is filling in as my chief of staff, and his engineering skills are too valuable elsewhere.

What you'll do

Take meetings in my place with anyone: an investor, a big potential customer, someone senior in government, a CEO who wants to partner with us
Fill the gaps and be a reliable EA for me when I need it
Juggle a lot of miscellaneous work and keep it organized
Own our most important decks. Build high-quality slides quickly yourself, and drive the ones you don't write — a board meeting where each executive owns a section, and someone has to chase every one of them to done and make sure the finished deck holds together
Learn my point of view and the reasoning I'd apply, so you can make calls on my behalf
Build actual automated systems with AI — not just prompt it — to take over more of the support function over time

What I'm looking for

Learns new things fast and can show real understanding of complex subjects quickly
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🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Windborne Systems Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating hard-core hardware/software integration, atmospheric science intuition, and extreme engineering resilience for global weather data collection.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Theoretical-only engineering background with no experience building physical, deployable hardware.
2. Low tolerance for field testing failures and iterative physical prototyping.
3. Inability to operate effectively in a lean, high-risk, high-reward deep tech environment.

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I design resilient hardware-software systems built to operate autonomously in the most extreme atmospheric conditions on earth.

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