Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff LocationNew York CityEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentOperationsAbout Hanover ParkHanover Park builds AI systems that run the financial operations of the world’s most sophisticated investment firms. As an AI-enabled service and fund administrator, we’ve become the way fund CFOs adopt AI. We've raised $31 million from Emergence (investor in Salesforce/Zoom), Susa (investor in Robinhood/Flexport) and angel investor fund CFOs from Bain Capital ($180B), Clearlake ($100B), CD&R ($80B), and Hellman & Friedman ($80B).Our mission is to be the financial infrastructure to orchestrate how the world's capital is operated, governed and allocated. Stripe for payments. Ramp for expenses. Hanover Park for investments. In the next decade, the AI systems we build will advise $100B investment firms on their largest acquisitions and eventually unlock alpha for investors.The roleWe're ~40 people scaling to ~100 by year end. Chris (CEO) is running sales, product, and the company at the same time. That doesn't scale.Right now, too many cross-functional priorities live in Chris's head. Initiatives get started and stall. Owners aren't always clear. Follow-through is inconsistent not because the team isn't good, but because no one's job is to make sure things land.As Chief of Staff, you're the connective tissue between Chris's priorities and the org's execution. You run the operating system that keeps a fast-growing company from losing things in the gaps.This is a high-trust, high-visibility role. You'll have more context on what matters and why than almost anyone at the company.What you'll work onLaunching special projects end to end: scoping, staffing, tracking, and closing them outOwning staffing and pod allocation across services teamsBuilding capacity, utilization, and performance visibility for fund accounting and servicesTurning founder priorities into owners, deadlines, and execution plansRunning follow-through on cross-functional initiatives across product, recruiting, finance, and opsResolving operational loose ends before they escalate to ChrisOwning launch readiness and outstanding-item tracking across the businessDriving and owning the company financial modelBuilding and maintaining the internal operating system: dashboards, trackers, and live priority viewsCreating accountability loops for directors and functional ownersWhat we're looking forThe ideal background is an ex-founder, a chief of staff at a hypergrowth company, or an ex-investment banker who wants to operate rather than advise.Need:Ability to context-switch across finance, ops, product, and people without losing the thread on any of themStrong financial modeling skills: you can build and own a model, not just read oneHigh ownership: if something is at risk of falling through the cracks, you catch it before it doesComfort operating with incomplete information and tight timelinesInstinct for when to escalate and when to just handle itNice to have:Familiarity with private markets, fund administration, or financial servicesExperience building internal operating infrastructure from scratchPrior exposure to a Series A or B company scaling through a growth inflectionThis isn't the right fit ifYou want a well-defined job description that doesn't change week to weekYou need explicit direction to know what the highest priority isYou're more comfortable analyzing problems than owning the resolutionYou want a 12-month ramp before carrying real responsibilityWhy nowThe next 12 months determine whether Hanover Park scales cleanly or under strain. The person in this seat will have more visibility into how the company runs than almost anyone outside the founding team. What you build here becomes the operating infrastructure for a company that will be managing more capital than most banks.If that sounds like your kind of problem, let's talk.Apply for this Job