Director, Chief of Staff guiding the Enterprise Consumer Product leadership team. Overseeing strategic initiatives and driving operational excellence across Capital One’s product, tech, and design organization.
About the role
- Founders Associate supporting the management team with project coordination in a hybrid environment. Engaging in community app development and strategic operations at Project Bay.
Responsibilities
- You act as the right hand and sparring partner to our founding team.
- In this challenging and varied role, you proactively support the management and the team with strategic tasks as well as all areas of day-to-day operations.
- You take on and manage independent projects (focus: our 3‑year funded project to develop a community app for rural areas).
- You handle administrative project coordination and communication with project partners.
- You are responsible for the management and controlling of the funded project.
- You prepare interim reports and budget plans.
- You manage scheduling and travel arrangements for internal and external participants.
- You manage partnerships on both operational and strategic levels.
Requirements
- You have completed vocational training or a degree in a commercial/business field.
- You have initial experience in research project administration and project controlling.
- You enjoy working independently and are highly results-oriented.
- You are energetic and not looking for a purely administrative role — you want to actively shape and build.
- Through daily use, you are proficient with Microsoft Office, Slack, Google Workspace, etc.
- Ideally, you have early relevant professional experience in strategic business development, consulting, workation/coworking, community building, startups (as a founder), or venture capital.
Benefits
- You play a key role in the success of the next generation of startups.
- You will help build a top-tier network of organizations and people in the startup ecosystem.
- We value short communication lines, an open culture, and close, motivated collaboration toward shared goals — we grow together every day.
- Join us and actively help shape our working culture.
- Responsibility with tangible impact on new ventures and business models.
- You will enjoy long-term personal development opportunities and fair compensation.
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