Chief of Staff

Chief Of Staff

We are hiring an Executive Operations leader to work directly with the CEO to drive clarity, speed, and follow-through on the company's most important priorities. This role sits at the center of decision-making and executionworking across leadership, board, and investors to ensure we operate as a high-performance team. You'll bring structure to chaos, translate vision into operating rhythm, and lead critical projects that cut across functions. This is an ideal role for a strategic operator who wants to be in the room where decisions happen and build a long-term leadership path in climate and technology.

Location : San Francisco, CA

Languages : Fluent in English, Portuguese a plus

Role Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO on key decisions and priorities : Drive clarity and execution across the highest-leverage priorities and strategic bets.
• Lead internal operating rhythm : Own and run the company's OKR cycleplanning, mid-cycle check-ins, gradingand help instill a culture of accountability and focus.
• Drive Board and investor prep : Lead preparation for Board meetings, including building the deck, coordinating inputs, and ensuring strategic narratives are tight.
• Run internal communications : Draft key internal memos, run weekly All Hands, and ensure the company speaks with one clear voice.
• Execute cross-functional initiatives : Project manage mission-critical efforts that span teams or require executive alignment and fast decision-making.
• Improve how the company operates : Identify and evolve internal tooling, templates, processes, and documentation to help the company scale.
• Support leadership culture and cohesion : Design and run leadership meetings, team offsites, and retros to improve trust, alignment, and effectiveness.

Background and Requirements

Personal Attributes

About Terradot : Our mission is to stabilize Earth's climate by transforming nature's most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing a global initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.

Founded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot is led by the world's leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows our team to contribute with speed & scale. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures and others. We have sold ~300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and Google.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Research suggests that qualified people from historically marginalized groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.