About the role
Imbue CTO and co-founder Josh Albrecht is hiring a Chief of Staff to help him scale. This is a high-trust, demanding, execution-focused role with huge growth potential. The focus is on business operations — building entirely new functions (ex: marketing), hiring, taking on special projects, and generally doing whatever it takes to make Imbue successful.
This position is meant to become a long-term partnership — someone Josh can work with, learn from, and invest in for years to come. As one example, Josh still collaborates with his first Chief of Staff (Ali) from his previous company (Sourceress). Ali applied to that role cold, and now Josh, Kanjun, and Ali are co-GPs at Outset Capital, the small venture fund Ali leads full-time. Ali even helped write this job description!
This is an opportunity to get deeply involved in the world of AI, helping to build a top product and team at one of the world's most exciting early-stage startups. Imbue is just getting started, so building a strong foundation for company operations is critical. You will help grow a culture of operational excellence and passion for doing the right thing in the world into a company that becomes a household name.
About us
Imbue's mission is to make "open" AI agents win over closed agents. To do that, we build AI systems that reason and code, enabling AI agents to accomplish larger goals and safely work in the real world.
Our first product, Sculptor, gives engineers the power to run and coordinate multiple coding agents in parallel, helping them move faster, and stay in flow. We intend to make the source code available to both serve as an example of how to create open agents, and provide a tool that makes it easier for others to create open software.
We aim to rekindle the dream of the *personal* computer, where computers become truly intelligent tools that empower us, giving us freedom, dignity, and agency to pursue the things we love.
What you’ll do
• Represent Josh in internal and external communications, meetings, and events
• Make things happen on timelines that others find absurd
• Hire for executive roles (ex: CMO, COO)
• Talk to and message potential users, candidates, and contributors
• Create new processes and tools to run the company more efficiently
• Organize events, building networks, and represent the company with developers
• Execute on special projects
You are
• An unstoppable executor who gets things done with urgency and ownership
• High-agency and proactive—you spot what needs to be done and make it happen
• An excellent judge of people
• Deeply interested in AI
• Flexible and able to design end-to-end solutions with clear execution plans
• A sharp, detail-oriented operator with strong writing skills
• A first-principles thinker who questions convention and builds from the ground up
• A fast, curious learner who thrives on tackling unfamiliar problems
• Empathetic and effective at collaborating and communicating with anyone
Compensation and Benefits
• Support for self-improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc
• Company offsites—past locations include NYC, Santa Cruz, Hawai’i, and Tokyo!
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
• Lunch provided daily
• $250 lifestyle stipend per month
• Flexible PTO
• Frequent team events, dinners, and fun activities
• Compensation packages are highly variable based on a variety of factors. If your salary requirements fall outside of the stated range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is $180,000–$275,000.
How to apply
Submit your resume below, along with a video of yourself (that is <= 1 minute long) using the file submission below.
We know this is an unusual ask for a job application, but your effort won’t go to waste, as Josh personally watches every video that comes in.
For the video, use it however you like to show why it’s worth moving forward—for example, why you’re excited about the role, something unique about you, or something interesting you’ve been learning lately. There's no need to cover everything on your resume—we'll look at that too.
You're welcome to include a cover letter and any other work you can showcase (open source code, side projects, etc.) Folks from untraditional backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We know that talent comes from many backgrounds, and we aim to build a team with diverse skillsets that spike strongly in different areas.
We try to reply either way within a week or two at most (usually much sooner).
