Role: Chief of Staff

Reporting to: Founder and CEO

Location: Hyderabad, with travel across India and internationally as required

Engagement: Full time

Summary

About Flamingo Aerospace

Flamingo Aerospace Private Limited is building India's first privately led commercial aircraft manufacturing ecosystem, anchored by an exclusive technology transfer and licensing programme for a certified regional aircraft platform and the development of the Flamingo Global Aerospace Hub in Andhra Pradesh. The Company works across aerospace manufacturing, international technology partnerships, structured project financing, and national industrial policy, aligned with the Make in India mission.

Role Overview The Chief of Staff will act as a strategic partner and an extension of the Founder, driving alignment between vision and execution across the organisation. The role sits at the centre of strategy, programme execution, capital, partnerships, government engagement, and organisational building. It spans aircraft programme milestones, OEM relationships, ministry level submissions, board and investor governance, and the build out of a greenfield aerospace hub, and is designed to evolve into a senior leadership role as the Company scales.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy, Execution, and Founder Leverage

- Translate the Founder's vision into actionable plans, roadmaps, and execution frameworks, and drive key strategic initiatives end to end.
- Manage the Founder's priorities, schedules, and decision flows, and prepare briefs and structured inputs for key meetings, negotiations, and decisions.
- Establish OKRs, execution cadences, and dashboards, and track organisational priorities, milestones, and outcomes.

2. Aircraft Programme and Government Engagement

- Support the Company's aircraft licensing and technology transfer programme, including milestone tracking, documentation, and OEM partner coordination.
- Prepare and quality control submissions to ministries, regulators, and government bodies, and maintain a structured calendar of institutional follow ups.
- Support land, approvals,



and incentives related work with state authorities for the Company's manufacturing hub.

3. Fundraising, Investor, and Board Relations

- Support fundraising strategy, investor outreach, and capital planning; prepare investor decks, data rooms, and programme updates to institutional standard.
- Coordinate due diligence with investors, lenders, and advisors, and track covenants and deliverables across financing arrangements.
- Act as the key liaison with the investor community; prepare board packs, quarterly update presentations, and manage board agendas, minutes, and follow through.

4. Partnerships, Ecosystem, and Industry Representation

- Identify and support strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and supplier collaborations, and work with leadership on deal structuring and execution.
- Represent the Company in industry bodies, taskforces, forums, and events, and help build its narrative in the aerospace ecosystem.
- Travel as required to strengthen relationships with partners, investors, and institutions in India and abroad.

5. Operations, Reporting, and Organisation

- Own critical cross functional projects end to end, and build systems, processes, and document standards for scalable execution.
- Design and run MIS, KPI trackers, and dashboards that give leadership real time visibility into programmes, performance, and milestones.
- Support hiring across key roles, build HR processes and culture, and drive organisational structure aligned with growth plans.

6. Communication and AI Enabled Efficiency

- Oversee internal and external communications, shaping the Company's voice so all messaging reflects its mission, values, and vision.
- Integrate AI and automation across workflows,



from document production to reporting and programme tracking, to improve speed and quality of execution.

Key Skills and Competencies

- Strong strategic thinking with execution excellence; able to think like a strategist and execute like an operator.
- High ownership and the ability to operate in ambiguity within a first of its kind venture.
- Exceptional communication, with the ability to produce institutional grade documents for regulators, boards, investors, and international partners.
- Exceptional stakeholder management across government, institutional, corporate, and international counterparts.
- Hands on financial skills, including modelling, valuations, KPI tracking, and investor grade materials.
- Exposure to manufacturing operations, government processes, and board and investor reporting is a strong advantage.
- Familiarity with AI tools and digital systems, and absolute discretion in handling confidential information.

Experience and Qualifications

- 8 to 15 years across strategy, consulting, investment banking, venture capital, programme management, or founder's office roles, or an equivalent record of high responsibility delivery.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with founders, CEOs, boards, or senior government and institutional leadership.
- Prior Chief of Staff or founder's office experience at a manufacturing, industrial, aviation, or deep technology company is a strong advantage.
- A track record of driving complex, multi stakeholder initiatives from concept to completion.
- Willingness to travel extensively and operate across time zones with international partners.

What This Role Offers

- Direct exposure to building a global aerospace company from the ground up, including a first of its kind aircraft manufacturing programme in India.
- The opportunity to work closely with the Founder on the highest impact strategic, capital, and institutional decisions.
- A dynamic, rapid paced environment with significant ownership, and a defined pathway into a core leadership position as the Company scales.

📌 Chief of Staff (Hyderabad)
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