Chief Operating Officer overseeing operations and technology services for ClearBank in Europe. Leading compliance and customer service efforts while managing outsourced activities.
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
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