VVater

Chief of Staff

Austin, TX · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 62 days ago
Agentic AIProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementCRMSupply ChainProcurementERPCadenceResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Unlike outdated chemical, filter, and membrane systems, VVater's electric-field breakthroughs eliminate PFAS, microplastics, microorganisms, and other contaminants with record retention times, without toxic byproducts or costly consumables.
  • Job Description: THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION BASED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS - NO REMOTE OR HYBRID AVAILABILITY FOR THIS POSITION The Chief of Staff is the force multiplier to the Chairman & CEO.
  • You are the operator, builder, integrator, and proxy.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrated track record of building things, internal tools, systems, processes, products, or businesses.
  • An executive assistant (we have separate EA support)
  • You are widely recognized inside the company as an extension of the CEO and a credible decision-maker in your own right
  • If you want to be in the room where it happens, and you want to build the room, this is exactly where you want to be.

Requirements

  • You can vibe-code a working internal application in an afternoon.

Skills

  • An operator's seat in a vertically integrated hardware and manufacturing company
  • AI-native, you live in modern AI tools and use them to multiply your output by 10x
  • A confidential information broker who sees everything and discloses nothing without authorization
  • A documented operating system in place for how the executive office runs
  • Two to three strategic initiatives owned end-to-end and driving toward measurable outcomes
  • AI-powered internal tools, dashboards, or agent workflows built and deployed where they save time
  • Decision briefs and weekly executive reporting cadence established

Company info

  • THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION BASED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS - NO REMOTE OR HYBRID AVAILABILITY FOR THIS POSITION The Chief of Staff is the force multiplier to the Chairman & CEO.
  • You take the commander's broad intent and high-level direction from the CEO and translate them into tactical plans that you then execute, often with little oversight and significant ambiguity.
  • This is not a strategy role.
  • This is not a deck role.
  • This is a hands-on operating seat in a hardware manufacturing company that makes physical products in a physical factory and ships them to physical customers.
  • You will spend time on the shop floor as often as you spend it in the boardroom.
  • You will jump into sales when a deal is stuck, into marketing when a launch is slipping, into finance when a vendor needs to be renegotiated, into engineering when a project is off-spec, and into HR when a sensitive personnel issue lands on the CEO's desk.
  • You are the person who walks in, sees a broken process, and quietly fixes it before anyone else notices it was broken.
  • Full command of VVater's business, the technology, the customers, the financials, the org chart, the factory floor, and the current strategic priorities
  • Trusted relationships established with the executive team and key managers
  • CEO's operating cadence (meetings, decisions, action items) actively owned and running cleanly
  • You have demonstrated readiness for a future executive seat (CRO, COO, CSO, or a function-specific leadership role) THE REALITY OF THIS ROLE We will be direct, because that is one of our values.
  • We are not asking for someone to grind for the sake of grinding.

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