Chief of Staff @ String

Status: Hiring

Business Unit: Operations

Compensation: $130k-$180k + Meaningful Equity

Reports To: CEO (Rohit)

Location: NYC in-person 5 days a week

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Overview

Hey this is Rohit (CEO/co-founder) writing this. I find most JDs to be quite impersonal and bland. We do things a bit differently here at String. So to start off, I appreciate you for taking the time to read this and for considering us.

We're building the most comprehensive platform to collect and structure data from the web.

Customers ranging from the world's largest hedge funds to seed-stage startups use String to pull 30M+ rows of structured web data per week (that's literally 50 rows every second).

We're generating 7 figures in ARR with no sales people. We have found initial PMF and are now building our team to accelerate growth. We've done everything so far with a lean engineering team and we recently raised a seed round (unannounced) from leading VCs and angels in our space (Auren Hoffman, Charlie Songhurst, and many more).

As we scale, I need a force multiplier. Someone who can operate as an extension of me - taking on high-priority strategic projects, driving cross-functional initiatives, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks as we grow. This is a role for someone who wants to learn how to build a company from the inside and eventually become a founder or executive themselves.

What do we do

Today any business that wants to collect web data has to jump through many hoops:

Build infrastructure to send thousands of requests to websites

Build technology to avoid getting detected as a bot (very hard to do at scale)

Code individual scripts for every website they want to scrape

Fix all those scripts as websites change, and

Ensure consistent data quality across runs

We solve all of these problems for them so that they never have to worry about scraping. Thus, we 1) significantly improve their end products driving millions in revenue and 2) save them hundreds of thousands of dollars in engineering costs.

Building this would have been impossible before the AI revolution. We have a unique opportunity to build the first platform where anyone can collect structured data across any website with just a prompt. And we're excited to be at the forefront of solving this problem for our customers.

What will you do

Strategic Projects (40%)

Own and drive key strategic initiatives end-to-end (e.g., market expansion analysis, competitive intelligence, operational efficiency projects)

Build frameworks and processes that help us scale - from OKR tracking to board reporting

Conduct research and analysis to support major business decisions

CEO Support & Operations (30%)

Serve as a thought partner and sounding board for the CEO on key decisions

Manage CEO priorities and ensure follow-through on critical action items

Handle sensitive projects that require discretion and executive judgment

Cross-Functional Coordination (30%)

Drive alignment across engineering, sales, and operations teams

Lead internal communications and ensure information flows effectively

Identify and resolve organizational bottlenecks before they become problems

Step in to lead or support any function that needs extra bandwidth

Who are we looking for

2-5 years of experience in consulting (MBB preferred), investment banking, venture capital, or high-growth startup operations

Exceptional problem-solving skills - you can break down ambiguous problems and drive to solutions

Strong written and verbal communication - you'll be drafting investor updates, internal memos, and presenting to the team

Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously

Scrappy and resourceful - you get things done without needing a playbook

Based in or willing to relocate to NYC

Nice to haves:

Experience at an early-stage startup (seed to Series B)

Technical background or comfort with data/analytics

Exposure to B2B SaaS or data products

Entrepreneurial aspirations - you want to start a company someday

Why join us

The Chief of Staff role at String is not a glorified EA position. You'll be operating at the strategic level, with direct exposure to every aspect of building a high-growth startup: fundraising, sales, product strategy, hiring, and operations.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to:

Learn how to build a company from the vantage point of working directly with the CEO

Gain breadth of experience across product, sales, operations, and strategy

Accelerate your career toward becoming a founder, executive, or GM

Make a real impact at a company with strong PMF and momentum

We've structured compensation to be competitive and include meaningful equity because we want someone who thinks like an owner. Other benefits include:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Annual international offsite (last 2 years - Istanbul & Kuala Lumpur)

NYC office - beautiful office in Chelsea, snacks, drinks, peak startup energy

Interview Process

Initial conversation with Rohit (30 mins)

Case study / problem-solving exercise (take home)

Presentation + deep dive with Rohit (1 hour)

Culture interview with the team (45 mins, ideally in person)

References

Values & Team

Feel free to read through our team values to see if working with us will be a good fit for you. If you get excited from reading the values page, it's likely a good fit and vice versa.

Logan (CTO): Leading engineering and has extensive web scraping & AI experience. Ships like a 10 person engineering team (Rohit bragging for him). Previously worked as the founding engineer at Nourish (YC W21, now unicorn) and as a software engineer at C3 AI.

Rohit (CEO): Leading GTM and has signed 25+ deals including 6 of the 10 largest hedge funds while spending half his time coding. Previously worked as a consultant at Bain and cofounded two startups in college, one of them with Logan called CampusOven.

Engineers: We have 7 more great engineers on the team who help build and maintain the full end to end product. We're lucky to have such passionate and thoughtful engineers on the team.