Khaerospace

Chief of Staff

Reno, Nevada, United States · Exec

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About the role

  • Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA) is an aerospace company specializing in long-endurance unmanned aerial platforms for a wide variety of industries.
  • Success in this role requires exceptional judgment, discretion, organizational discipline, executive communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities evolve rapidly.
  • Additional details regarding salary range and other incentive eligibility will be provided during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted operating partner and right hand to the CEO, creating leverage across executive priorities and organizational execution.
  • Build and manage a practical leadership team operating cadence focused on decisions, risks, priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.
  • Maintain visibility into company priorities, execution risks, resource constraints, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies.
  • Drive accountability and consistent follow-through while fostering strong, productive relationships throughout the organization.
  • Recommend and implement scalable leadership operating processes, tools, and best practices that improve execution without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
  • Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter describing your experience serving as a trusted operating partner to a CEO, founder, commander, or senior executive, and why this opportunity is a strong fit for your background.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in military operations, aerospace and defense, manufacturing operations, technical program management, business operations, Chief of Staff, or a closely related leadership role.
  • Excellent organizational, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Ability to work effectively with senior leaders, technical experts, operators, customer-facing leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity, incomplete information, and rapidly changing priorities while maintaining clarity and forward momentum.
  • Track CEO priorities, commitments, decisions, open issues, and required follow-up.

Nice to have

  • Prior military experience, particularly in a Chief of Staff, Executive Officer, operations, planning, command staff, or similar role.
  • Experience in a startup, growth-stage company, founder-led organization, or similarly entrepreneurial environment.
  • Familiarity with leadership operating rhythms, OKRs, EOS, program reviews, integrated master schedules, priority dashboards, or comparable execution systems.
  • Experience preparing executive, board, military, government, or customer briefings.
  • Active or prior security clearance.
  • Trusted, discreet, and calm under pressure.
  • Operationally disciplined without being bureaucratic.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid change, and incomplete information.

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation and a complete health care package.
  • Additional details regarding salary range and other incentive eligibility will be provided during the hiring process.

Company info

  • KHA develops the world's longest endurance fully electric Unmanned Aerial System ("UAS") in our size and weight category.
  • We solve large-scale worldwide problems by providing persistent overhead services to help our soldiers remain safe in theater, provision rapid emergency communications for disaster relief efforts, enable search-and-rescue services to assist emergency response efforts, help anti-poaching to protect the world's most endangered species and provide geospatial data to assist in slowing climate change.
  • Compensation:
  • Competitive compensation and a complete health care package.

Equal opportunity

  • EEO Statement

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Active or prior security clearance
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