Chief of Staff
Apheris
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in Europe
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Lead
About the role
- Enable the company leadership
- Act as a force multiplier for the CEO by structuring priorities, preparing decisions, and ensuring rigorous follow-through
- Own preparation, execution, and follow-up of key leadership, board, and external meetings
- Keep cross-functional initiatives moving, ensuring clarity, timeliness, and delivery quality
- Optimize the CEO’s engagement with key stakeholders, including investors, board members, and senior partners
- Prepare investor and board materials in collaboration with company leadership
- Maintain consistent, data-driven investor communications and reporting
- Consolidate company metrics, coordinate data-room updates, and track fundraising deliverables
- Selectively work with the finance team on reporting, forecasting, and operational planning to ensure sound decision-making
- Own and drive strategic initiatives, special projects, and analytical deep dives that support company priorities
- Conduct targeted market or competitive analyses where relevant to inform strategic discussions
- Collaborate across Product, Science, and Commercial teams to ensure progress on high-impact workstreams
- Evolve the company’s operating cadence, including planning cycles, OKRs, and performance management
- Build and maintain lightweight documentation, dashboards, and communications that create transparency and scalability across teams
- Improve execution speed and organizational effectiveness through AI-enabled systems and automation
Requirements
- Master’s or advanced degree in business, economics, engineering, life sciences, or a related analytical field, graduating in the top 10% from a top-tier university or business school
- 2 - 4+ years of work experience in high-performance, fast-paced environments such as strategy consulting (e.g., MBB), venture capital, or high-growth startups or scaleups
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, able to structure complexity and extract insights quickly
- Exceptional execution drive, organization, and attention to detail
- Strong proficiency in core tools, including expert-level PowerPoint and Excel skills, ability to build high-quality materials fast, and comfort using modern AI and productivity tools
- High ownership mindset; you take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
- Comfort working in a remote-first environment across distributed teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication. English: C2 level; German optional
- Curiosity and willingness to learn about AI-driven drug discovery, the broader life sciences ecosystem, and Apheris’ customers
Benefits
- Industry-competitive compensation, including early-stage virtual share options
- Remote-first working – work where you work best, whether from home or a co-working space near you
- Great suite of benefits, including a wellbeing budget, mental health benefits, a work-from-home budget, a co-working stipend and a learning and development budget
- Generous holiday allowance
- Office Days at our Berlin HQ or a different European location (3x a year)
- A fun, diverse team of mission-driven individuals with experience across leading organizations (e.g., MBB, Palantir, NVIDIA, top pharma) and a drive to see AI and ML used for good
- High exposure to core strategic and technical topics, significant ownership from day one, and plenty of room to grow personally and professionally while shaping your own role
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillsexecution driveattention to detaildata-driven communicationmarket analysiscompetitive analysisstrategic initiative managementoperational planningperformance management
Soft skills
organizational skillsownership mindsetcuriositycommunication skillscollaborationadaptabilityleadershipattention to detailexecution speedtransparency
Certifications
Master’s degreeadvanced degree