C-Level Full-Time In office — Kolkata, West Bengal, India Permanent
Compensation
INR 50 LPA - 95 LPA base
Engagement
Full-Time
Permanent role. Full-time commitment. This is an on-site role at Kolkata. It is not remote and not hybrid.
Scope of role
Build the function from zero. Set the strategy. Own the outcome.
01 — The role
Why this role exists at EduRankAI
EduRankAI is a frontier AI and educational intelligence organization working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, research, talent development, and institutional transformation. The Chief of Staff sits inside the Founder's Office and is the highest-leverage non-functional role in the company. This is not an administrative role. It is the seat where strategy meets execution, where ambiguous problems get resolved into shippable plans,
and where the founder's bandwidth is multiplied by someone who can be trusted with anything from a board memo to a hiring loop to a partner negotiation. The Chief of Staff has no formal team and unlimited scope. The right person for this role will look at the company in three months and see their fingerprint on at least six different functions — and at six months will have made themselves indispensable in ways that did not exist in the original job description. You'll thrive here if: you treat ambiguity as a resource, not a problem. You read drafts of other people's writing for sport. You can run a hiring loop in the morning, a partner call at lunch, and a market-sizing analysis in the afternoon — and you would rather do that than specialize. You understand that the highest-leverage role in a frontier company is the one nobody wrote a job spec for, and you can write that spec for yourself. You'll struggle here if: you measure your impact by org-chart depth. You need a clear remit handed to you. You think