# Chief of Staff to the CEO at WindBorne

- Company: WindBorne
- What the company does: WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in the atmosphere. Backed by Khosla and Pear VC.
- Company website: https://windbornesystems.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: RWC HQ
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/windborne-systems/49c67693-14ad-4efa-b39d-9ea451bd5000
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/windborne-chief-of-staff-to-the-ceo/

## About the role

I'm John, CEO of WindBorne. I have more things I want to do than time to do them, so I need two functions covered: a chief of staff who is real operating leverage — taking meetings in my place, moving things forward without me, making calls on my behalf — and the EA work of calendar, travel, and the small well-defined tasks.

## What they're looking for

- Learns new things fast and can show real understanding of complex subjects quickly
- Excellent at slide decks, and at project-managing a deck across people who don't report to you
- Scrappy, with strong follow-through and meticulous attention to detail
- Calm handling a lot at once, and genuinely organized
- Gets good work out of AI models. You don't need a software engineering background — this can be learned on the job — but you do need to find this changing landscape interesting
- Comfortable in a spreadsheet and in a team chat tool (we run on Zulip)

Tags: Business