Hybrid Chief of Staff – COO

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About the role

  • Chief of Staff to COO at Alice & Bob, driving strategy and execution for quantum computing solutions. Collaborating across teams to achieve ambitious goals in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Execution & Alignment: Translate vision into action by working with the COO to break down high-level goals into executable roadmaps, KPIs, and cross-functional projects.
  • Prioritize and drive initiatives: Lead special projects from ideation to execution, ensuring cohesion between Tech & Growth departments to meet aggressive growth targets.
  • Optimized Operations: Identify bottlenecks in workflows, communication, or decision-making, and implement solutions to keep the team moving forward.
  • Act as a force multiplier: Help the COO focus on what matters most by filtering noise, preparing for key meetings, and ensuring follow-through on decisions.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Facilitate collaboration between technical teams (e.g., R&D, engineering) and business functions (e.g., sales, finance, HR).
  • External Stakeholder Engagement: Support fundraising efforts and coordinate due diligence while representing the company at industry events, hackathons, and deeptech forums.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in high-growth environments: Experience in scale-ups, venture capital, consulting (McKinsey, BCG), or deeptech industries.
  • Operational rigor: Proven track record in strategy, operations, or project management, with a bias for execution.
  • Strategic thinker: You can zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to handle the details – ensuring that both align.
  • Deeptech curiosity: Familiarity with R&D cycles, technical constraints, and commercialization challenges in deeptech (e.g., hardware, biotech, quantum…).
  • Analytical mindset: Ability to synthesize complex data (financial, technical, market) into actionable insights.
  • Stakeholder management: Experience working with executives, investors, and cross-functional teams in fast-moving environments.
  • Builder mentality: You thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and create structure where none exists.
  • Resilience: Comfortable with rapid pivots, high stakes, and long-term vision.
  • Humility and confidence: You’re secure enough to ask questions and driven enough to find answers.
  • Nice-to-Hava: Experience in fundraising (VC, grants, corporate partnerships) or M&A; Experience in deeptech, hardware, or industrial sectors; Network in the European deeptech ecosystem

Benefits

  • Our success is your success : own it with our BSPCE plan
  • Turn your ideas into patents – and (competitive) patent bonuses
  • Flexible remote policy, up to 40 % a month
  • A Parental plan including additional benefits such as crèche support or additional days-off to take care of under 12 years old children
  • Subsidized membership with Urban Sports Club
  • Mental health support with moka.care
  • 25-day vacation policy (as per French law) + RTT
  • Half of transportation cost coverage (as per French law), or yearly allowance for the die-hard bicycle users
  • Competitive health coverage, with Helium/Axa
  • Meal vouchers with Swile, as well as access to a fully equipped and regularly stocked kitchen

Job title

Chief of Staff – COO

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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