Chief of Staff

Vapi (/'Vɑːpi/):

• Voice AI that resolves, not transfers
• Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life
• Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
• Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised
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Why We're Hiring This Role:

Vapi is scaling fast, and the CEO's time is the company's scarcest resource. We're hiring a Chief of Staff to be a true force multiplier: someone who can take an ambiguous, high-stakes problem, run it to ground, and either solve it directly or stand up the team and process to solve it. This is not a scheduling or note-taking role. It's a role for a builder who wants to operate at the center of the company, touch every function, and grow into a broad operating leader. If you've founded something, been a founding employee, or thrived in the chaos of an early-stage company, you'll feel at home here.

What You'll Do:

• 30 Day: Embed with the CEO and the leadership team. Learn the product deeply enough to speak credibly with customers and engineers, sit in on every major meeting, and build a clear map of how the company runs today: goals, metrics, open decisions, and where things are stuck. Start owning the operating cadence (leadership meetings, agendas, follow-ups) so nothing falls through the cracks.

• 60 Day: Take full ownership of one or two ambiguous, cross-functional problems the CEO cares about - the kind that don't have an obvious owner - and drive them to measurable outcomes. Tighten planning and reporting: get to a crisp view of company metrics and OKRs, and make sure priorities are clear and progress is visible.

• 90 Day: Operate as a trusted extension of the CEO. Represent them in meetings, make and communicate decisions on their behalf, and run key company processes (planning, board prep, all-hands, key hiring loops). Identify the next set of high-leverage problems and either own them or build the team to own them.

Who You Are:

• A strong business generalist with a technical bent - you don't need to write production code, but you can go deep on a technical product, conduct meetings with engineers, and reason about how the product and market fit together.
• You've either founded a company, been a founding employee, or otherwise operated with a high degree of ownership in a fast-moving environment. (Prior "Chief of Staff" experience is not required - we care about the operating instinct, not the title.)
• A fast learner who can pick up an unfamiliar domain quickly and get to competence faster than seems reasonable.
• Exceptionally organized. You bring order to ambiguity, track the details, and make sure things actually get done.
• Comfortable owning a broad and shifting set of responsibilities. One week strategy you're focused on strategy, the next week operations, the next week a critical hire.
• Ideally, some consulting, banking, or similar structured-problem-solving background. You know how to break down a messy problem and communicate crisply to executives.
• High trust, high judgment, and low ego. You're happy to do the unglamorous work and to give away the wins.

How We Work:

• Build something worthy of love
  
  • Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
• Commit and follow through
  
  • We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
• Why not today?
  
  • We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.
• Seek raw input
  
  • We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
• It's our problem
  
  • We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
• Be direct and kind
  
  • We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.

Why Vapi:

• Generational impact : Build the human interface for every business
• Ownership culture : a large portion of our workforce is former founders
• Kind team : The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians
• Tier-1 Investors : YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A

What We Offer:

• Real stake : We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
• Comprehensive health coverage : medical, dental, and vision plans
• Team love : We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
• Flexible time off : take what you need
• More : catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget