As the first non-engineering hire, you will act as a strategic partner to the founders, taking complete operational ownership as Catapult prepares for its alpha launch. You will drive critical initiatives across recruiting, SOC 2 compliance, and product readiness, transforming breakthrough AI research into a market-ready platform through high-leverage execution.
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Chief of Staff at Catapult
Join Catapult as Chief of Staff and the first operational hire, working directly with founders from Meta and Cambridge to build the future of personalized AI. This London-based role offers a unique path to San Francisco within a year, putting you at the helm of operations, recruiting, and product readiness for a venture-backed startup tackling breakthrough technical challenges. If you have elite consulting rigor from a firm like McKinsey and true startup hustle, this is your chance to co-build a generational AI company from the ground up.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£60k-£100k + Equity
Company
Catapult
Role overview
London, United KingdomSeed (VC-backed)
At Catapult, we're building personalised AI models that understand the complete context of your work across email, calendar, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, and more.
We're pushing the frontier of what's possible in AI with personalisation, memory, and deep context - to help you work better than you ever thought possible.
We’re a focused team of founders, researchers, and engineers. Between us, we've led teams rolling out new products at Meta, built multiple startups, published papers in leading journals, taught AI at Cambridge, worked at AWS, TikTok, Imperial and UCL, and pioneered frontier technology - from quantum random number generators to privacy-focused, local coding agents.
Backed by Blockchain Capital, Stani Kulechov, Eden Block, OrangeDAO, Ryan Berkun, Entrepreneur First.
What you will do
- Lead full-cycle recruiting to source and hire exceptional research engineers from top-tier institutions and frontier technology companies to scale the technical team.
- Manage end-to-end company operations, including achieving SOC 2 compliance and building robust systems in Notion and Airtable to ensure seamless, high-standard execution.
- Drive product readiness for the upcoming alpha launch by conducting rigorous testing and managing strategic go-to-market relationships with other startup founders.
Who this is a fit for
- Holds 5+ years of experience, including significant time at a top-tier strategy consultancy like McKinsey, BCG, or Bain for exceptional analytical rigor.
- Demonstrates a proven track record of startup execution, either as a venture-backed founder or a high-impact Chief of Staff at an early-stage company.
- Exhibits technical literacy and extreme proficiency with modern productivity tools, capable of building complex operational systems with zero supervision and high attention to detail.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join an elite team of research engineers from Meta, AWS, and TikTok as the first operational hire at a venture-backed AI startup.
- Work directly with a CEO who scaled products at Meta and a CTO with a PhD from Cambridge on genuinely novel technical problems.
- Transition from London to San Francisco within 12 months, playing a pivotal role in the global scaling of personalized AI technology.
How Jack & Jill work together
I get to know what you’re great at, then find roles you’d never find yourself.Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
I recruit from Jack’s network and make the intro when I spot a great match.And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
Jack gets to know what you're great at and what you want next, then searches 15 million jobs daily and helps you discover roles at companies like this.
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What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and Catapult wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.