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David AI is the first audio data research company, bringing an R&D approach to developing high-quality datasets for AI training. Founded in 2024 by former Scale AI engineers, the company has rapidly grown to serve most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers. The company recently raised a $50M Series B from top-tier investors including Meritech, NVIDIA, and First Round Capital.
As Chief of Staff to the CEO, you will work directly with Tomer (CEO and Co-Founder) on the company's highest-priority initiatives. Your role is to increase the speed and effectiveness of the CEO and the organization around him by taking important cross-functional problems and driving them to completion.
Key responsibilities include:
- Work directly with the CEO on the company's most important priorities, translating broad goals into clear plans, decisions, owners, and next steps
- Own strategic and operating projects that cut across functions or lack a clear owner, from problem definition through execution
- Help run the company's operating rhythm by tracking priorities, surfacing issues early, and ensuring decisions translate to action
- Conduct deep dives into business areas needing attention, identify root causes, and build plans with leadership teams
- Support company planning and translate company-level goals into organizational priorities
- Lead analysis on major company decisions by gathering data, pressure-testing options, and developing recommendations
- Partner with leaders across research, engineering, product, data operations, go-to-market, finance, and people functions
- Support CEO-level work including board preparation, fundraising, executive hiring, and organizational planning
- Help allocate CEO time to highest-impact areas and take ownership of work that doesn't require CEO involvement
- Step into new initiatives requiring temporary ownership, build structure, and stay close until a permanent owner is identified
You'll work across every part of David AI with a front-row seat to building a fast-growing AI company. This is a high-ownership operating role for someone comfortable moving between strategy and execution in a fast-paced environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years of experience in high-ownership roles at a fast-growing technology company, startup, investment firm, consulting firm, or similar environment
- Prior experience owning complex work end-to-end with direct accountability for outcomes (not just advising or coordinating)
- Strong analytical judgment: ability to take ambiguous problems, identify what matters, get to relevant data quickly, and form clear points of view
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to make complicated topics simple and communicate clearly with executives and operators
- Experience working across multiple functions and driving work through people who do not report to you
- Comfort moving between high-level strategy and detailed execution, sometimes within the same day
- Relentless operator with high standards, bias to action, and strong attention to detail
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid pace; thrives in a "build while flying" environment
- Low-ego, collaborative, and mission-driven, focused on team and company success
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience as a founder, early-stage operator, GM, or in strategy and operations at a high-growth startup
- Prior experience working closely with a founder or CEO
- Experience in AI, data infrastructure, marketplaces, or other technically complex businesses
- Experience with board preparation, fundraising, executive recruiting, or company-level planning
- Experience taking a new initiative from zero to one and eventually handing it to a dedicated owner
