Founding Chief of Staff

Job Description: Chief of Staff at OneText

• Location: San Francisco Headquarters (Remote Optionality Available)
• Salary: $80,000 - $120,000 + Equity
• Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental Insurance, Untracked PTO

About OneText: Shop by Text

Sitting at the intersection of payments, AI, and marketing, OneText makes shopping as effortless as paying with your hotel room number. Shoppers literally reply and buy with one text. Fast-growing ecommerce brands use our text to buy payments and sales concierge to drive up to 30% more revenue. We replace conventional SMS marketing with two-way conversations that delight shoppers and inspire them to buy more. 

We’re backed by rockstars including Y Combinator, Coatue, Citi Ventures, Khosla Ventures, the founders of Warby Parker, Allbirds and Harry’s and Matt Bellamy, the lead singer of Muse. 

We're building a world-class team and we’re looking for part 🪄magician, part 🏴‍☠️ pirate, part 🚀 astronaut to join as our founding Chief of Staff. If that’s you, reach out!

The Role

As Chief of Staff at OneText, you'll work directly with our founders—Jonathan Fudem, CEO and Daniel Brain, CTO.

How to Apply

• Click to apply
• But to jump to the top of the pile, please submit our application

Key Responsibilities

• Anything & Everything
• Strategy & operations
• Collaborating with CEO, CTO and entire team 
• Financial modeling and planning
• Investor Updates, Team memos and communication with customers, vendors and lawyers
• Overseeing incentive-based compensation for Sales and Success team 
• Running HR software (Gusto, Rippling, Sling, etc)
• Making long documents shorter
• Being the extended brain and hands of the CEO

Required Skills

• Experience in a high-growth startup or tech company
• Exposure to multiple functions such as strategy, operations, finance and HR. 
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making.
• Being able to make it up as you go. You need to be comfortable with ambiguity! 
• Fast learning and excellent at making complicated tasks smaller and faster 
• Extreme honesty 
• Willingness to work the week of US Black Friday / Cyber Monday (the Super Bowl for our industry)
• Readiness to do do whatever it takes to ensure OneText wins
• Desire to fight for truth justice and the defeat of your enemies/our lazy, tired competitors

Why Join Us?

• Key player at a fast-growing startup: Revenue is up 3X year/year and accelerating
• Huge Opportunity: We have the chance to build the payment company of the future, providing a chargeable card on file for every phone number
• Competitors You’ll Love to Fight: We compete and win against spammy, conventional “Big SMS” companies who prefer to lock people into contracts rather than innovate. 
• Personal Growth: We take on big battles every day and work with the best in the industry.

 

How to Stand Out

• Read this far
• Familiarize yourself with our core values and norms
• Visit OneText.com, enter your favorite ecommerce site and play our demo
• Submit our Application
• Love our mission

Join us in building the future of payments and marketing, one text at a time.

1. Submit our application: https://onetext-chief-of-staff.paperform.co/
2. Interview screening with Jonathan, Daniel, and other members of the team
3. Follow up conversation with Jonathan
4. Reference check