Job Title
Chief of Staff
Salary
£60k-£100k + Equity
Company Description
Catapult is a venture-backed London AI startup building personalized intelligence grounded in a user’s complete digital context. Led by a former Meta executive and a Cambridge PhD, Catapult is solving foundational challenges in secure data processing to fundamentally improve how knowledge workers search, synthesize, and manage information across their tools.
Job Description
As the first non-engineering hire, you will act as a strategic partner to the founders, taking complete operational ownership as Catapult prepares for its alpha launch. You will drive critical initiatives across recruiting, SOC 2 compliance, and product readiness, transforming breakthrough AI research into a market-ready platform through high-leverage execution.
Location
London, UK
Why this role is remarkable
- Join an elite team of research engineers from Meta, AWS, and TikTok as the first operational hire at a venture-backed AI startup.
- Work directly with a CEO who scaled products at Meta and a CTO with a PhD from Cambridge on genuinely novel technical problems.
- Transition from London to San Francisco within 12 months, playing a pivotal role in the global scaling of personalized AI technology.
What You Will Do
- Lead full-cycle recruiting to source and hire exceptional research engineers from top-tier institutions and frontier technology companies to scale the technical team.
- Manage end-to-end company operations, including achieving SOC 2 compliance and building robust systems in Notion and Airtable to ensure seamless, high-standard execution.
- Drive product readiness for the upcoming alpha launch by conducting rigorous testing and managing strategic go-to-market relationships with other startup founders.
The ideal candidate
- Holds 5+ years of experience, including significant time at a top-tier strategy consultancy like McKinsey, BCG, or Bain for exceptional analytical rigor.
- Demonstrates a proven track record of startup execution, either as a venture-backed founder or a high-impact Chief of Staff at an early-stage company.
- Exhibits technical literacy and extreme proficiency with modern productivity tools, capable of building complex operational systems with zero supervision and high attention to detail.
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