1X Technologies

Chief of Staff

San Carlos, CA · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$230k-$280kDetected 14 days ago

RESTOKRsCadenceRoboticsLeadershipCommunication

About the role

The Executive team sets the direction, pace, priorities, and strategy of 1X.
Their ability to make those calls quickly and coherently has the greatest outsized impact on the entire company.
The Chief of Staff sits at the center of that team, ensuring the highest-leverage work gets the CEO's time and the rest of the business stays aligned around it.

We're building humanoid robots that work in home - doing the chores, handling the tasks, and giving people their time back.
NEO is our flagship - a home robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside real people.
We're scaling, we're hiring with intention, and we need people who want to build something that will genuinely change how humans spend their time - safely creating abundance for all.

6+ years in fast-moving operator roles: Chief of Staff, strategy & operations, top-tier consulting, investing paired with operating, or a founding role.
Demonstrated track record of driving cross-functional initiatives to completion in environments with real technical and operational complexity
Experience running planning and prioritization processes (OKRs, quarterly planning, or equivalent) that leadership actually adopted
You can produce a decision memo, a board update, or an all-hands narrative on short notice

Prior Chief of Staff experience reporting directly to a founder or CEO of a scaling hardware, robotics, AI, or deep-tech company.
Experience designing internal communications rhythms (all-hands, board updates, weekly business reviews).
Comfort translating between technical and business audiences with equal fluency.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support

High-quality decisions are made faster because information is synthesized, tradeoffs are clear, and recommendations are ready
The leadership team executes toward the same priorities with fewer conflicting initiatives
Company initiatives that span engineering, operations, product, finance, and people actually ship
Leadership meetings become decision forums instead of status updates, and conflict gets resolved earlier
OKRs, planning cadence, metrics, reviews, and communication rhythms become repeatable systems
Judgment under ambiguity. You walk into a room with incomplete information, identify the real decision, and drive to a call
Systems thinking. You see the company's operating model end-to-end and spot where friction is compounding before others do
Writing and synthesis. You turn a messy debate into a one-pager that clarifies the tradeoffs and the recommendation
Executive presence. You hold your own with senior leaders, disagree productively, and never confuse proximity to power with authority
Bias for closure. You finish what you start and are allergic to open loops
We've been at this since 2014 and we're at the point where the hard problems are behind us and the hard work is in front of us.

1X is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, justice system impact, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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