Chief of Staff

at Helium — Self Improving Software

San Francisco, CA, USFull-time1+ years$120K - $160K0.30% - 0.60% equityYC-S24

What the role involves

Helium is building Self-Improving Software: AI that automatically generates & tests new software experiences to lift revenue. We’re…

Talent-dense (8 people, 6 engineers, 75% ex-founders)

Well-funded ($6M from Google & Leaders from OpenAI)

Fast-growing (Doubled revenue this month & Serving tens of millions of users per day)

AI has created a once-in-history opportunity, and we’re here to win, because of that

🔴 We work hard — In-Office Monday–Friday, and often push through weekends 🔴

What You’ll Do

Helium is growing extremely fast — We're looking for someone to be the CEO's right hand. You’ll…

Be the CEO's force multiplier — Take on strategic projects and run them end-to-end (growth, fundraising, hiring, expansion)

Work directly with customers to make them successful (Onboarding, Activation, Support)

Build the operational infrastructure (processes, automations, tools) for our next 1000 customers

Have a great understanding of our product, and constantly propose and spec improvements

Take on special projects (growth, events, recruiting) that are strategically important

Do whatever it takes to help us 10x revenue over the next 3 months

What We’re Looking For

You have 1-4 years of experience in a fast-paced operations environment (startups, consulting, banking, etc)

You get shit done

You have a proven track record of building things, launching game-changing projects, and having impact on tight timelines.

You bring order to chaos

  • You’re organized and think structurally. You can take a messy problem and turn it into a plan.
  • You’re a top 1% communicator: People understand you and like you. You’re able to navigate tricky, high-conflict situations with tact.
  • You’re creative and proactive: You find ways to accelerate your work and get better with ever rep
  • You’re low ego: You jump on the bug, take the late-night support ticket, and do whatever it takes to solve the problems you face.

Bonus Points

  • Background in a high-intensity environment (consulting, banking, startup, sport, military).
  • Prior experience at an early-stage startup.
  • You use AI to 10x your output while maintaining high standards.

In your application, please include the following (in 3-6 sentences max)

  • Your SAT/ACT score
  • What’s a time you successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?
  • What was the hardest you ever worked on something? How hard did you work, why did you work so hard, and how did it go?

About Helium

Helium is building self-improving software — AI that continuously experiments on key moments in the user funnel to boost revenue. Our first customer, a social app with 20M MAU, uses Helium to test new in-app paywalls to get more users to subscribe. Zach previously made $100M+ in growth experiments at Uber, Shishir led the first LLM features for Alexa, and Anish worked at Meta building ML to automatically experiment on ads, increasing Instagram ads conversion by 10%.

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