About Current AI

Current Al is a first-of-its-kind global public-private partnership that brings together governments, foundations, and the private sector to build public interest AI at scale. Launched at the AI Action Summit in Paris in 2025, the organisation has already raised hundreds of millions through partnerships with the French government, AI Collaborative, and other leading governments, philanthropic, and industry partners. 

If AI is the transformative revolution we perceive it to be, it needs to serve the public interest today and tomorrow. At Current AI, our goal is to help build a collaborative, collective, and global vision for AI, not one governed by a specific country or a company. 

Role Overview

As Chief of Staff, you will serve as a strategic partner and force multiplier to the CEO, helping translate vision into clear priorities, high-quality decisions, and focused execution. Working alongside the COO, who leads operational infrastructure, you will concentrate on strategic alignment, leadership team effectiveness, and CEO leverage. Your role is to sharpen focus, prepare critical decisions and engagements, and ensure the organisation’s top priorities move forward with clarity and accountability.

This is not a conventional Chief of Staff position. It operates at the intersection of strategy, communication, design, and relationship management, and demands genuine excellence across all four.

What you’ll do

This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, operational discipline, project management, and strong communication skills. This role is focused on amplifying the CEO’s effectiveness and ensuring strategic clarity across the organisation. The Chief of Staff concentrates on priorities, alignment, and decision support.

Strategic clarity and alignment

• Translate short conversations, voice notes, and half-formed directions into crisp memos, polished decks, and actionable roadmaps, fast and without hand-holding
• Act as a trusted thought partner: sharpen ideas, stress-test assumptions, and help determine where the CEO's attention is best directed each week
• Support board preparation and strategic materials in coordination with the COO and relevant leads.
• Prepare high-quality briefing materials that frame decisions, highlight trade-offs, and synthesise complex information into clear options.
• Track progress against top-level priorities and surface emerging risks, tensions, or misalignment early.

Relationships and VIP management

• Maintain a living map of key relationships in partnership with the EA (funders, partners, government contacts, ecosystem figures) with context on who they are, what they care about, and how to nurture them
• Brief the CEO before every significant interaction: who's in the room, what they need, and what she should remember
• Follow up where it matters and flag when a relationship needs attention before it needs repair
• Join meetings, identify opportunities to follow up, partner, share information with members of the team, or get additional clarity

Design and creative production

• Bring genuine design sensibility to every CEO-associated output: events, presentations, website updates, and partner-facing materials.
• When representing the organisation at hosted events (whether dinners, convenings, or launches) you bring a considered aesthetic sensibility that reflects our standards.
• Translate ideas and concepts into tangible prototypes and visual outputs, using tools such as Canva, Figma, or equivalent design platforms.

Comms, narrative, and external presence

• Work with the Head of Comms to identify which conversations, stages, and global moments Current AI needs to be in, and prepare the CEO to show up well-prepared
• Draft and structure talks, remarks, and key messages, with the judgement to know what resonates with each audience
• Read the AI news cycle and surface what matters: policy shifts, ecosystem moves, events, moments worth reacting to or weighing in on

Leadership team effectiveness

• Increase the CEO’s effectiveness by ensuring meetings, engagements, and commitments are purposeful, well-prepared, and followed through.
• Design and manage leadership team meetings to ensure clarity of decisions, accountability, and follow-through.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on strategic initiatives, working alongside the COO to ensure collaboration and effective communication.
• Lead select high-priority, cross-cutting projects that require CEO-level sponsorship but do not sit squarely within one function.
• Help codify decision-making norms and ways of working in partnership with the COO.

Product and roadmap thinking

• Build and maintain roadmaps for cross-cutting organisational priorities: not just tracking tasks, but understanding dependencies, sequencing, and trade-offs
• Identify gaps, propose structures, and lead select high-priority initiatives that don't sit cleanly inside any one function

What we’re looking for

‍Must-haves

• 7+ years of professional experience, including in a Chief of Staff position, management consultant, or a highly demanding strategic/operational role, preferably supporting a senior executive in a fast-paced environment.
• You write well and fast (in English and French): executive memos, briefing docs, talking points, internal comms
• You have genuine design skills: not just "visual sense" but the ability to make things (decks, layouts, event concepts) that look and feel considered
• You know how to use AI tools to move faster and produce better output (and you're already doing this)
• Strong judgment about people and relationships — you know when to push, when to hold, and how to make someone feel genuinely valued
• High discretion; strong initiative and comfort operating in ambiguous early stage environments 
• You've worked across cultures and are comfortable in international, multilingual environments
• Proven experience in strategic planning, project management, and driving complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills; able to quickly grasp complex issues and develop practical solutions.
• Strong interest for public interest AI
• Strong proficiency with strategic and operational tools (e.g., Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Airtable etc.)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in philanthropic or mission-driven organizations, public sector, international organizations, or high-growth start-ups.
• Familiarity with governance, Board relations, or internal finance/HR processes.
• Product management instincts: you think in systems, roadmaps, and user needs, not just tasks
• You've produced or supported events where the details reflected a specific aesthetic point of view
• An understanding of the AI ecosystem and its impact on society, technology, and global governance.

Character traits

We’re looking for people who:

• Put the mission before personal credit and work well in low-ego, highly collaborative teams
• Exercise good judgment and integrity, including knowing when to push back or say no
• Enjoy building from scratch and making progress with imperfect information
• Have a bias to action, shipping useful things and helping others do the same
• Are comfortable moving between strategy and hands-on execution as needed
• Work effectively across cultures, time zones, and disciplines
• Believe AI can serve the public interest - and are willing to do the practical, unglamorous work to make that true.

The offer

We’re committed to ensuring that team members are supported, well-compensated, and able to thrive.

Expected Salary Range: $110,000-150,000 for New York City, depending on experience. For outstanding candidates, we may consider a higher package.

How to apply

Please apply using the button below, and attach a covering note answering each of the following questions in no more than 500 words in total:  

1. What excites you about joining Current AI as Chief of Staff at this early stage?
2. Describe a time you successfully helped an executive translate a high-level strategy into actionable, time-bound organizational priorities, with very limited guidance.
3. Tell us about a systemic operational challenge you identified and solved in a previous organization to improve efficiency or decision-making.
   

Ventula is leading this job search and will be handling all applications.

Equal opportunity commitment  

Current AI is committed to ensuring equal access to employment and preventing all forms of discrimination. All applications will be reviewed fairly, without regard to origin, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religious beliefs, views held, or any other criteria unrelated to professional qualifications. Selection will be based solely on skills, experience, and suitability for the role.  

Current AI does not accept unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies with whom we do not have a signed agreement. Current AI will not be liable for any fees or commissions in the event that a candidate submitted in this manner is subsequently hired.

Please note that this search is being led by Ventula Consulting, who will be reviewing all applications on behalf of Current AI.