Source

Chief of Staff

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Organization:
Source, Inc.
Organization Profile:
AI is leaving the cloud. Agents now run in vehicles, robots, drones, and satellites, and by 2029 Gartner expects them to generate 10 times more data from the physical world than all digital AI applications combined. Every database and permission system those agents touch was built for people, who trust whoever runs them. Agents can’t. They have to verify. Source is the frontier data lab building for them. Our open-source stack gives agents a database they can verify instead of trust: a context graph where every record links to the history that produced it, shared directly between machines, normalized into the shape each agent expects, and usable with or without a connection. Secrets management and access control are part of it. Then we built Gents on top of it. Model labs build harnesses to sell their models; Gents is a multiplayer harness built around the data. We’re a small team that ships. No layers, no theater, no waiting for permission. If you’d rather build the foundation agents run on than another layer on top of it, you’ll like it here.
Location:SF/Bay Area + NA
Salary:$125,000 - $175,000 + equity

Why we are hiring this role

Source has built the data stack agents need beyond the cloud, and Gents, the multiplayer harness we built on top of it, is going to market. Model labs build harnesses to sell their models; Gents is built around the data. The next stage is turning that into a product teams adopt and a company that scales with it. That’s the job we’re hiring for.

Why this role matters

As Chief of Staff, you’ll work directly with the CEO across product, engineering, operations, partnerships, and fundraising. You’ll own the initiatives that take Source from research to deployment: bringing Gents to market, landing the partners who put the stack into the field, and keeping a deep-tech team focused on the few things that matter most.

This is a high-trust role for someone who can hold a technical argument and an operating plan at the same time. You won’t write the cryptography. You will need to understand why it matters, so that what the lab proves becomes what the company ships.

Responsibilities

  • Run the operating rhythm with the CEO: set the quarter’s priorities, track them across teams, and cut the ones that stop mattering.
  • Drive the Gents go-to-market plan across product, engineering, and marketing, so every team works from one plan and one set of numbers.
  • Run the fundraising process with the CEO: narrative, materials, data room, pipeline, and follow-through.
  • Keep partnership deals moving between meetings: scope, internal owners, and next steps that actually happen.
  • Build how a growing deep-tech company works: how decisions get made and written down, how teams stay informed, how hiring runs.
  • Be the CEO’s thought partner on the calls that matter most, including what not to do.

Requirements for the role

  • Have owned outcomes, not just coordinated them, as a founder, an early operator, or a lead inside a venture-backed company.
  • Can get far enough into distributed systems and cryptography to explain to an investor why our database can be verified without trusting whoever runs it.
  • Write clearly enough that engineers, partners, and investors all act on the same memo.
  • Turn an ambiguous problem into a plan with owners and dates, and keep it current as things change.
  • Have run, or been close to, a fundraise, a product launch, or a strategic partnership.
  • Care whether machines can trust the data they act on.

Why Join Source

The technology is built. The operating model around it isn’t yet, and you’d be the one designing it. You’ll work alongside the engineers and researchers who built the stack, see strategic and technical decisions as they’re made, and help decide how a frontier data lab becomes a company that scales.

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