Spawn

Chief of Staff

San Francisco, USA · Exec · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 106 days ago

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About the role

This is a generalist operating role reporting directly to the CEO.
On any given week you might be onboarding a new engineer in the morning, chasing down a vendor invoice at lunch, prepping a board doc in the afternoon, and coordinating with outside counsel on a contract in the evening.
If "I'll just handle it" is your default reflex, keep reading.

You will own the unsexy, high-leverage work that nobody else has time for and that the company falls apart without.
What you'll own People ops & HR.
About Spawn Spawn is a platform where anyone can create multiplayer games from words.
You describe what you want, our AI companion Savi builds it with you, and seconds later you're playing it with friends.
We're a small team (~10) building a custom game engine, a novel AI authoring system, and the runtime that ties them together.

You have 3+ years of operational experience at a startup, in consulting, in finance, or in a similar high-rigor environment.
track record does.
You can draft an investor update, a vendor email, and an offer letter in the same hour and they all sound right.
You are absurdly organized.
If they do, you have a system that catches them next time.
You are discreet.
You are low-ego and service-oriented.
You are technical enough to learn new tools quickly and not afraid of spreadsheets, contracts, or basic SQL.

Onboarding and offboarding, benefits, payroll coordination, PTO, employee records, IACs and offer letters, the eternal task of making sure everyone has the equipment and access they need on day one.

Working with outside counsel on contracts, NDAs, contractor agreements, IP assignments, and the assorted legal cleanup that accumulates at a young company.
We're looking for the person who runs the company around the company - the operational spine that lets everyone else go fast.

This listing is sourced directly from Spawn's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.