Role & responsibilities
We are a Chennai-based group operating across media and technology. We are hiring a Chief of Staff to run the CEOs office.
About the role
The CEO runs several ventures in parallel, each with its own lead and project manager. This role is where all of it comes together. Every project lead reports status into you. You turn that into one truthful picture the CEO can act on and then make sure the decisions taken on it actually happen, across the technology, content, legal and marketing teams.
This is an execution role with real authority, not an advisory one. The people whose work you coordinate are senior and do not report to you.
What you will do
- Own the operating cadence across every venture: what gets reviewed, when, by whom, and against what evidence
- Take structured status from each project lead and hold one consolidated view of status, owners, blockers, risks and pending decisions
- Run the weekly review and publish a single report the CEO can rely on, replacing several separate conversations
- Coordinate the technology, content, legal and marketing teams, and resolve dependencies before they become delays
- Enforce the operating rules: no status without proof, and no task without an owner
- Prepare the CEO for reviews, convert his decisions into owned tasks with dates, and verify closure
- Run the office side — vendors, budgets, tooling, and hiring coordination with HR
- Take on zero-to-one projects, and build the internal dashboards and automations that make status visible without manual chasing
Skills and experience we are looking for
- 815 years in a chief of staff, founder’s office, strategy and operations, management consulting or programme management role
- Demonstrable experience coordinating multiple teams or workstreams at once, with outcomes you can quantify
- Exceptional structured communication, written and verbal — you will write the report the CEO reads
- Comfort in product and engineering discussions; you can tell when an answer is vague
- Fluency with AI tools for research, drafting, analysis and tracking
- Evidence of shipping, not just reporting — something you personally drove to completion
- The judgement to know what needs escalating, and the willingness to escalate it
- Able to be based in Chennai full time, in person
Good to have
Chief of staff or founder’s-office experience at a startup or high-growth company. Consulting background (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Kearney, Big Four) or a tier-1 MBA or engineering degree. Content, creator or media operations experience. Ability to build dashboards and automations using no-code, low-code or AI-assisted tools. Familiarity with Linear, Jira, Notion or Asana. Basic contracts and IP literacy.
Other details
Compensation is competitive and discussed openly in the first conversation. The selection process includes a short take-home exercise designing our weekly operating cadence. This is a confidential search; full details of the organisation are shared at the first call. NDA and background verification apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.
To apply:
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📌 Chief of Staff / Head of Office (Chennai)
🏢 Atman Artwork
📍 Chennai