Chief of Staff for Prof. Sir Kostya Novoselov

Carnot

ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Chief of Staff to serve as a force multiplier for the CEO. This is a part-time contract role (at least 20 hours per week, with flexibility on scheduling) designed for someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution. This isn't a "shadow the executive" role. You'll own real problems, make real decisions, and have direct impact on how the company scales. The position has a clear path to full-time conversion, with a mutual evaluation at the 3-month mark. The ideal candidate has the horsepower of a top-tier consultant, the scrappiness of an early startup employee, and the judgment to know when to ask questions versus when to just figure it out. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Drive strategic planning: Own the quarterly planning process, track KPIs, and keep the company aligned on what matters. * Fix what's broken: Identify bottlenecks in how we work, communicate, and ship. Implement solutions without waiting to be told. * Lead cross-functional projects: Take ownership of high-priority initiatives that don't fit neatly into existing teams, whether that's analyzing a new market, coordinating a product launch, or preparing for a fundraise. * Maximize the CEO's time: Manage priorities, prepare materials for board meetings and investor conversations, and handle external engagements. * Support hiring and culture: Help recruit key roles and maintain a strong, unified culture across our SF and Tokyo teams. * Build the information edge: Conduct research on competitors, market trends, and potential partnerships to inform decisions at the top. REQUIREMENTS Experience * 2+ years in a high-performance environment: top-tier management consulting, investment banking, or Chief of Staff at a high-growth startup. * Track record of managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders and delivering under pressure. * Exceptional communication skills. You can take messy information and turn it into a clear, concise narrative. * Strong analytical and financial modeling skills. * Native/Bilingual proficiency in English. Bonus * Prior experience as a founder or early employee at a venture-backed startup. MINDSET * Ownership: You treat this like your company. You don't wait for permission to solve problems. * Adaptability: You're comfortable with ambiguity and can pivot between strategic, financial, and operational challenges without losing momentum. * Discretion: You'll have access to sensitive information. You operate with integrity and keep confidences.

Elgin Energy

ELGIN VALUES Core behavioural responsibilities for all employees   Agility  We Lead with Agility   Integrity  We Act with Integrity Excellence  We Empower Excellence Care We Value Care JOB DESCRIPTION We’re looking for a highly commercial Chief of Staff (CoS) to act as a key partner to the CEO, materially increasing their effectiveness by converting Elgin’s strategy into clear priorities, decisive action, and measurable outcomes. The COS will lead mission-critical cross‑functional initiatives, actively challenge and shape strategic decision-making, and ensure management focus is consistently directed at our highest-value priorities. You’ll act as a central integrator between Elgin, our international offices in Dublin, London, Ulm, and Rome, and our main shareholder, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the world’s largest dedicated greenfield energy investment fund manager, with over EUR 37bn raised. This is a senior, high impact role with significant exposure to our Board and investors. The CoS will own and execute critical corporate workstreams, taking responsibility off the CEO, and providing high-calibre intellectual and commercial challenge across strategy and execution. The Role in Context You will work directly with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team across the most critical decisions facing the business. Why This Role * Work at the centre of a business scaling a 10GW+ renewable energy platform across Europe. * Play a direct role in how Elgin executes its strategy—not just how it defines it. * Gain exposure across development, financing, delivery, and operations. * Build toward broader leadership responsibility as the company continues to scale.  What you will do:    Strategy & planning  * Develop and sustain an enterprise roadmap of strategic corporate and departmental priorities, holding management accountable for execution. * Challenge and optimise our strategic objectives and our approach to execution, ensuring a consistent focus on value creation and risk management. * Own the annual strategy cycle, working with management, investors and the Board to translate the long-term business plan into clear Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that drive project delivery and EBITDA growth. * Lead ongoing performance management to ensure individual, functional, and corporate objectives are met.   Own the Company Operating System  * Own the production of Board and investor materials, ensuring they are clear, decision-ready, and focused on the issues that matter most. * Build and continuously refine the ELT operating cadence, ensuring high-quality inputs, focused discussions, and clear follow-through. * Support the governance of Board Sub-Committees and internal committees, ensuring teams deliver high‑quality packs with robust analysis. * Act as the connective tissue across the organisation, bringing the right people together, resolving interdependencies, and removing blockers to execution.     Lead High-Impact CEO-Sponsored Initiatives  * Lead time-sensitive and high-impact strategic initiatives and CEO-sponsored projects. * Work with ELT members and Heads of Function to maintain a unified view of delivery across internal and external and internal priorities. * Help identify and resolve cross-functional risks, issues, dependencies and decisions. * Translate strategy into executable plans with clear ownership, timelines, and deliverables. * Drive critical cross-functional initiatives from conception through to delivery. * Identify and escalate risks early, ensuring decisions are made quickly and with full context.      Growth & Scaling the Organisation  * Support the evolution of Elgin’s organisational structure as we scale across markets and asset classes. * Help define clear ownership, decision rights, and information flows across the business. * Enable the organisation to scale without losing pace, clarity, or accountability. * Develop highly effective working relationships across the organisation and with our investors and corporate partners. * Draft and shape CEO communications across internal and external audiences, ensuring clarity, consistency, and impact. * Represent the CEO and Elgin in selected internal and external interactions where appropriate. * Create alignment across teams by ensuring messages land clearly and consistently. * Consistently raise the bar by shaping exceptional decision-making materials.    Strengthen Decision-Making Through Data & Insight  * Own the development of a clear, trusted “single source of truth” for company performance, ensuring leadership can make decisions based on accurate, timely data. * Lead an ongoing focus on data accuracy across teams; ensure inputs are timely, definitions are consistent, and insights inform decisions. * Build simple, scalable reporting and tracking frameworks that drive accountability. YOUR PROFILE Experience * Ideally 5+ years in a consulting or banking environment, with strong project management and problem-solving experience. * Evidence of operating at pace with senior leadership teams and Boards / external Investors.   * Exposure to multi‑country governance is desirable. * Ideally sector experience in energy, infrastructure or industrials, or familiarity with the renewable asset lifecycle (development to operations), project finance concepts (capital stack, lenders’ needs), PPAs, grid or permitting.     Skills * Execution: Project and task management across multiple teams and have a “get it done” discipline.  You will have a track record of taking loosely defined questions or problems and turning them into an approach and completed actions. * Problem‑solving: Structured thinking; able to comfortably move between detail and the big picture. * System thinker: Able to design repeatable, holistic, processes and actions.   * Influence: Earns trust quickly and manages through influence, not authority.  Strong stakeholder management across functions and organisations.  Able to act as a team player, supporting the ELT to execute their agenda’s.   * Communication: Exceptional slide deck production, crisp writing, and executive storytelling. * Financial & analytical: Model‑literate; comfortable interpreting budgets, dashboards and KPIs. * Tools: Office 365 (Excel/PowerPoint/Teams).  Experience of project tooling (Planner / Project / Smartsheet) and BI (Power BI) is desirable.     Behaviours * High integrity, sound judgment, discretion with sensitive matters. * Learning agility, inclusive and globally minded. * Resilience and a bias to action. * High sense of personal responsibility and humility.    Qualifications * Degree in business, engineering, finance or similar; MBA / CFA a plus. * Project / program management credentials (PRINCE2/PMP/Agile) or similar practical experience advantageous.   Practicalities * Base location: Dublin preferred; hybrid working aligned to ELT and CEO cadence. * Travel: 1 – 2 short trips per month expected to other Elgin sites.  * Eligibility: Right to work in the UK and Ireland. * Compensation & benefits: Competitive base, performance‑related bonus and benefits; long‑term incentive eligibility aligned to seniority and policy.

Lovable Labs Sweden AB

TL;DR We're looking for someone who has thrived in a hypergrowth startup environment and wants to do it again — someone who genuinely loved the part that most people only tolerate. You'll work side-by-side with our founder-CEO to scale his effectiveness, shaping strategy, driving execution, and making every function better than you found it. This is an intense, high-proximity role with very little structure, very little guidance, and enormous leverage for the right person. Why Lovable? Lovable lets anyone and everyone build software with any language. From solopreneurs to Fortune 100 teams, millions of people use Lovable to transform raw ideas into real products - fast. We are at the forefront of a foundational shift in software creation, which means you have an unprecedented opportunity to change the way the digital world works. Lovable-built applications and websites are visited hundreds of millions of times a month, and our enterprise footprint is compounding fast. And we’re just getting started. We’re a small, talent-dense team building a generation-defining company from Stockholm. We value extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We seek out people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world. What we’re looking for 10+ years of professional experience across high-intensity environments. This role has no manager, no structured feedback loops, and no one scoping your work. You are expected to see what needs to happen across strategy, operations, communications, and people and drive it without being asked. MBB consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan) or similar foundation. You learned structured problem-solving and executive communication under pressure. The CEO is a prolific, high-velocity idea generator who moves across product, GTM, partnerships, brand, and org design, sometimes within the same conversation. Ideas arrive faster than any single person could execute. Your job is to identify which ones carry real strategic weight, and sequence them against competing priorities. Ex-Founder, Chief of Staff, Head of BizOps/Strategy, or senior operations generalist experience at a hypergrowth startup who has lived the chaos firsthand. This company changes direction at the speed of the market it's defining. The strategic priority from Monday's leadership meeting may be reframed by Wednesday because a new partnership, competitive signal, or product insight emerged. This role is for someone who gets energy from moving fast inside ambiguity and can bring others along with them. Experience at companies that scaled revenue dramatically in compressed timeframes (think Ramp, SpaceX/Tesla, TikTok/ByteDance, OpenAI, Stripe, Anduril, Anthropic, Databricks, Figma, Scale AI). Lovable's leadership team has been assembled at lighting speed. You’ve seen this before before and how to support the CEO in building a strong leadership team. You will often be the connective tissue, the translator and mediator. Executive-grade communication. You can produce investor memos, board updates, internal comms, and candidate briefs that are polished, high-signal, and fast. You'll shape how the CEO communicates to the company, the board, and candidates — translating high-speed thinking into prose that lands with precision. Much of your impact will be invisible to the org and attributed to others. That needs to be fine with you. Diplomatic backbone. You navigate leadership tensions, headcount negotiations, and hard conversations with both empathy and candor. Comfortable with founder-speed proximity and intensity. This means daily co-working sessions with the CEO on his schedule, in-person in Stockholm, no remote exceptions. The team, customers, partners and investors are distributed across Stockholm, Boston, San Francisco and London. Some sessions run long and often happen outside of business hours. AI fluency. You actively use AI tools in your workflows and see them as a leverage multiplier, not a novelty (experience building AI workflows and agents is a strong plus) Coaching background is a meaningful plus. Executive coaching certification, or equivalent. What you’ll do In one sentence: Be the CEO’s strategic right hand — own the operating rhythm of the company, drive cross-functional alignment, and lead the highest-stakes initiatives from strategy through execution. Serve as a sounding board and sparring partner to the CEO on company strategy, competitive positioning, fundraising, org design, and executive hiring Own the cadence of the company — leadership meetings, leadership offsites, support all-hands preparation, goal-setting, planning, and cross-functional accountability systems Shape CEO communications for internal audiences (all-hands, leadership updates, sensitive HR matters) and external audiences (investor calls, candidate-facing materials) Drive alignment across the Leadership team and functional leads — mediate tensions constructively and ensure leadership decisions translate into execution Lead high-stakes special projects end-to-end — executive hiring processes, competitive intelligence, accountability frameworks Design and maintain function-level KPIs, headcount planning models, and performance dashboards that keep the leadership team honest Build and iterate on AI-powered workflows (multi-agent systems, Slack triage, meeting prep, action-item tracking) to scale the Office of the CEO This role is not for you if You expect to work regular working hours. Our teams, partners, investors and customers span Stockholm, San Francisco, Boston and London. You need clear role boundaries and a well-defined job description to do your best work You've never worked in a high-growth startup and are drawn to the idea of it more than the reality You take it personally when work you've invested in gets deprioritized or redirected abruptly You need regular recognition from your principal to stay motivated You expect the person you support to hand-hold you, or model the behaviors and systems you're implementing for the rest of the org You want a 12-month stepping-stone into a functional leadership role, this role is its own thing, and it demands full commitment to the craft of it How we hire Intro call with a member of the recruitment team to explore fit and alignment Call with a member of the CEO Office In-person meeting with the CEO if Stockholm-based, virtual otherwise Call with a member of the Leadership Team In-person work simulation with the CEO