Chief of Staff to the Founder and CEO

Where this is going We are a founder-led group of B2B software companies serving the private wealth and governance world: WealthComply (FATCA and CRS compliance automation), MinuteMaster (board minutes and governance automation), a venture that is in stealth, and a small media strategy company.

The founder is based in Jersey. The team works from several countries. Our clients are trust companies, fund administrators and private wealth firms across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean.

Over the next three years we want a group with a real leadership team, where the founder spends his time on the few things only a founder can do and everything else runs without him. This role makes that happen. If that pulls you, read on. If it does not, this is a good place to stop.

The role You run the founder's office across the group. You work through other people, with authority the founder lends you openly. In practice: You own the operating rhythm: the daily check-in, the weekly business review, the Friday update, the decision log.

You take the workstreams that have no natural owner (a funding round's mechanics, an alliance agreement, a pricing clean-up, a specialist pool) from a conversation to a one-page recommendation, then you execute what the founder decides. You curate what reaches him.

Every decision arrives as one page: the decision, the options, a recommendation, a deadline. You close the loops that need a person: chasing, calls, counsel, the company secretary, candidates.

You run hiring with our recruiter (scorecards, interviews, references, trials, onboarding) so the founder interviews and decides, and does nothing else in the process.

You take on the group's operating admin (payroll, banking within limits, tools, the filing calendar) until it is documented and handed to the right owner. The aim is to remove it, then move on. You will be in the room with the co-founders, investors' teams and advisers.

When the team needs a decision or an owner, you are the