Chief of Staff – Business Ops
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Chief of Staff serving as CEO’s operational partner at Searoutes, a climate-tech SaaS company measuring freight emissions. Owning board cadence, reporting, dashboards, and scaling projects.
Responsibilities:
- Own the full cadence with shareholders: board decks, pre-reads, action tracking, and follow-through
- Run the agenda, follow-ups, and accountability loop for leadership meetings
- Build and maintain pipeline dashboards in HubSpot, KPI tracking, and management/investor reporting
- Support the CEO on communications and meeting preparation
- Represent the CEO in operational forums when needed
- Lead cross-functional initiatives, including process improvements, tool rollouts, and scaling projects
- Turn strategic priorities into execution and ensure decisions become action
Requirements:
- 3–5 years in business operations, strategy consulting, or a Chief of Staff–type role, SaaS or logistics/supply chain experience is a strong plus
- A builder's mindset: organized, detail-obsessed, and allergic to dropped balls
- Comfort with data: HubSpot, spreadsheets, dashboards, and slide decks are your natural habitat
- Fluent French and English, written and spoken
- Genuine ease working across cultures, you'll be in daily contact with US-based teams
- A proactive streak: you spot what's needed before anyone has to ask
- Startup energy, you're energized by ambiguity, not slowed by it
- Nice to have: Experience working with US shareholders or inside a subsidiary structure
- Nice to have: Familiarity with Notion, PandaDoc, Basecamp, or HubSpot
- Nice to have: A genuine interest in sustainability, logistics, or the maritime industry
- Nice to have: Experience helping a company professionalize through a scaling phase
Benefits:
- A high-impact seat at the leadership table, from day one
- Exposure to both European startup culture and US corporate governance
- A fast-paced, no-BS environment; your work matters immediately, not eventually
- Competitive fixed salary + performance bonus
- Mutuelle, and standard French benefits (Syntec collective agreement)
- Two company-wide offsites a year
- A mission worth showing up for: helping decarbonize global trade




















