Technical Chief of Staff

Summary

Join IFT as their new Technical Chief of Staff and support the Co-Founders in driving execution across multiple projects. This high-level role requires a competent, action-oriented senior leader with exceptional EQ, comfortable with ambiguity. You will be responsible for supporting operational strategy and execution, ensuring structured decision-making, and serving as a single point of contact for the CEO/Co-founder. The ideal candidate will be deeply technical, experienced in leadership (especially of remote, technical teams), and skilled in conflict resolution and cross-functional collaboration. This is not a traditional Chief of Staff role; it demands a 'fixer' mentality and the ability to handle day-to-day operations while maintaining a focus on big-picture strategy. The role offers a negotiable compensation range in fiat/crypto and a remote, decentralized work environment.

Requirements

• Aligned to our principles (https://status.im/our_team/our_principles.html) and ideology (https://logos.co/manifesto)
• Embedded in Web3 / Blockchain ecosystem
• Highly competent in running an organisation
• Deeply Technical
• Demonstrated, high emotional intelligence & diplomacy
• Deep experience in leadership (preferably of remote, technical teams)
• Experienced leader of leaders - able to help up-skill Program leads
• Able to build trust / rapport quickly;  empathetic yet assertive, listening, understanding, creating solidarity across our organisation
• Able to focus on big picture strategy, but also to zoom into intricate detail
• FOSS experience

Responsibilities

• Support Co-Founders by extracting key information from meetings and written updates, ensuring that action items are recorded, planned and ultimately executed upon
• Ensure a structured decision making process is followed for organisational decisions
• Managerial responsibility and oversight - serving as the single point of contact to the CEO/Co-founder
• Consistency in handling day to day operations
• Mediator of any conflict between teams, facilitating productive communication & resolution
• Handle any administrative issues/tasks (internal system approvals, budgets, etc)
• End goal of alignment & achieving buy-in across the org, through observation, listening and connecting with our teams to understand priorities / pain points

Preferred Qualifications

• Founder / Start-up experience
• Experience working for a politically aligned organisation
• Highly technical / background in Software Engineering

Benefits

• We are Remote and Decentralised
• We are 200+ employees spread across 30+ different countries