You will operate as the founder’s execution proxy in ongoing external threads—driving responsiveness, organization, and forward motion—while the founder remains focused on engineering, flight-critical milestones, and customer proposals. This is not an administrative support role. It is a judgment role: you will be trusted with confidential information, expected to act independently within clear boundaries, and measured by closed loops, clean execution, and disciplined external coordination.

You will work at the center of high-stakes conversations and time-critical execution across aerospace, autonomy, and enterprise/government stakeholders. Your job is to protect the founder’s focus by owning the operational back-and-forth—so the work that matters most ships faster.

This is a high-trust, high-impact role for someone who thrives on pace, precision, discretion, and follow-through.

External & Investor Operations

• Own day-to-day coordination and follow-through with investors, strategic partners, and other external stakeholders
• Run structured relationship management (target lists, touchpoints, follow-ups, scheduling, next steps)
• Draft and negotiate NDAs using company templates; route non-standard exceptions to counsel as needed
• Manage controlled information sharing: access to materials, permissions, versioning, and audit-friendly workflows
• Maintain a clean pipeline of external conversations with clear next actions, owners, and deadlines
• Prepare periodic investor communications (e.g., quarterly updates) from founder-provided inputs; manage distribution logistics and track replies/action items
• Ensure founder involvement is reserved for high-leverage moments (closing conversations, key inflection points)

Founder Office Execution

• Take ownership of founder-delegated initiatives that are time-consuming, tactical, or coordination-heavy
• Drive tasks to completion across internal and external parties (vendors, counsel, customers, investors, contractors)
• Package decisions for the founder: context, options, tradeoffs, recommendation, and next step
• Track commitments made by the founder and ensure follow-through—nothing disappears in email, meetings, or side conversations
• Identify blockers early and resolve them independently where possible; escalate with a proposed solution

Communications & Coordination

• Prepare founder-ready drafts for external correspondence (emails, follow-ups, updates) for founder review and approval
• Maintain communication cadence and follow-through across external stakeholders; ensure responsiveness and clarity
• Prepare concise briefing notes for high-stakes meetings (objective, participants, history, desired outcome, agenda, next steps)
• Capture decisions and action items from critical conversations and drive execution immediately after
• Maintain discretion and information hygiene: need-to-know sharing, clean channels, disciplined handling of sensitive content

Special Projects

• Step into urgent efforts that don’t fit neatly into one person’s scope (customer coordination, partnership process, internal execution pushes)
• Create lightweight operating structure when necessary (tracking, cadence, accountability) without adding bureaucracy

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in roles requiring high ownership and external-facing execution, such as: Chief of Staff in Founder Office roles, Business Operations, Strategic Operations, Partnerships, enterprise deal operations, or program leadership with heavy coordination and follow-through, corporate development support, diligence/process heavy roles, or investor/external stakeholder operations (execution oriented).
• Demonstrated ability to run complex external workflows end-to-end (multiple stakeholders, shifting priorities, sensitive information)
• Experience handling NDAs and agreements, controlled document sharing, and coordination with legal teams
• Strong executive communication: can produce concise, high-quality drafts and correspondence that move threads forward (with founder approval on final messaging)
• High judgment and discretion; comfortable operating with confidential information and ambiguous situations
• Proven loop-closure: you reliably track threads, push momentum, and deliver outcomes without constant reminders
• Active Secret clearance preferred; must be eligible and willing to obtain/maintain a clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with technical founders or in deep-tech environments (aerospace, defense, robotics, hardware, AI, or regulated domains)
• Familiarity with investor relationship operations (touchpoints, updates, follow-through, coordination across stakeholders)
• Comfort building lightweight systems: pipeline tracking, dashboards, templates, repeatable processes
• Experience interfacing with counsel on contracts/NDAs and managing redline workflows

Traits We Expect to See

• High agency: you act, then report cleanly
• Bias for closure: you eliminate dangling threads and unfinished commitments
• Calm urgency: you move fast without creating chaos
• No ego: you care about outcomes, not credit
• Operational discipline: you keep work organized, secure, and audit-friendly

ITAR REQUIREMENT

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

BENEFITS

100% Company-Paid Medical, Dental, Vision; Paid Time Off; Bonus Potential, Stock Incentives, Performance-Based Promotions