Chief Of Staff Jobs

About Us

Radium is a Cloud Service Provider “CSP” for Machine Learning. The platform “Launchpad” automates provisioning of modularly integrated development software, apps and tools with advanced computing machine learning developers require – in the cloud – as a service. Our goal is to significantly reduce time and computing costsrequired to develop “train” machine learning workloads in the Cloud.

Radium is a fast-growing Toronto-based cloud service provider at the forefront of AI infrastructure and

tools. Our platform accelerates and simplifies the building, training, and deploying of machine learning

models.

We’re deeply passionate about AI while remaining committed to its responsible development. With a team that includes some of the most talented scientists and industry leaders in the field, we're confident that we can make a real difference. If you're ready to use your expertise to help shape the future of AI, we want to hear from you.

Chief of Staff Role

Radium is seeking an experienced Chief of Staff with strong operations and financial skills to be the

driving force behind our continued success. This is a fast-paced, multi-faceted role with extensive growth potential for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset and hustle. You’ll be on the founding team and work closely with the team to identify and tackle opportunities as they arise. You’ll work across sales, marketing, operations, partnerships, finance, people, data, and product.

You will partner closely with the CEO and the executive team, you’ll support strategic initiatives and drive accountability for goals across the company. The ideal candidate is a proven leader with a blend of strategic, operational, project management, and leadership skills. Additionally, they should possess exceptional attention to detail, initiative, and critical thinking skills. They are curious, adaptable, and comfortable managing change and ambiguity. They enjoy solving complex problems, are highly collaborative, and operate with a strong bias toward action and results.

Responsibilities

Executive Team Leadership and Company Strategy:

• Assist the CEO in day-to-day operational management of the business and in ensuring the CEO’s priorities are being effectively executed
• Own prioritization and execution strategic initiatives
• Enhance the effectiveness of key meetings by setting effective agendas to drive high-quality content and output, including preparation and meeting follow-ups

Operations:

• Seek areas for improvement and innovation to make the overall business run more smoothly and drive growth
• Build and own the business scorecard to track success metrics
• Set up a goal setting framework structure
• Build and own company operations

Communications

• Lead the preparation and development of all executive presentations, including investor presentations, board meetings, all hands meetings, internal and external speaking engagements, offsites, and events
• Assist with communications for the CEO and the company stakeholders

Requirements

• Strong leadership and team management skills
• Proven experience at a fast, high growth startup in a Chief of Staff or business operations leadership role
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, or a related field
• Excellent GSuite/Microsoft office skills
• Experience creating communications content, including public announcements, pitch decks and website content
• Demonstrated analytical and logic skills with a focus on problem solving frameworks
• Are comfortable with wearing multiple hats with the ability to work independently and as a team player
• 6-8+ years of management consulting experience
• Scrappy with no ego
• 5+ years of experience in finance and operations management, with a track record of success in process implementation & improvement, and project management
• 5+ years experience with financial modeling and analysis, with a strong understanding of business strategy and financial concepts.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and comfort interacting with all levels of management

What are the Benefits of Joining Our Team?

• Hybrid physical/remote work environment
• Flexible schedule and time off when needed to reset
• Competitive compensation
• Lots of autonomy to make impactful decisions
• Opportunity to work with and learn from a world-class team of academics and industry leaders at the forefront of the AI revolution, including leaders from MIT, IBM Watson, and Vector
• Opportunity to grow with the company
• Prime Toronto office location at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre at University of Toronto

What to Expect from Our Selection Process:

We are seeking passionate operators who possess the ability to move from strategy to tactical smoothly to join our leadership team. Our selection process is designed to assess the whole candidate and foster a mutual match for you and us. The process includes:

1. An initial screen interview to get to know you and share more about the role
2. A behavioral and values alignment interview to assess skill set, enthusiasm for the role, and potential to succeed
3. A take home business case assignment to assess presentation skills and ability to synthesize information
4. Final interview to assess critical thinking skills, communication, executive presence, and business acumen

Radium is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves. We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.