Chief of Staff

$120K - $150K • 0.40% - 0.70% • Palo Alto, CA, US Job type Full-time Role Operations Experience 3+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Skills AI Agents

About the role

About Coris

Coris is the AI-first risk intelligence platform for the payments industry. Payments platforms, ISOs, and sponsor banks use Coris across underwriting, fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and operations. We sit at the intersection of fintech infrastructure and applied AI, two of the fastest-moving categories in the market. Coris was born from experience. After two decades leading risk organizations in payments, our Co-Founder/CEO watched underwriting and monitoring run on antiquated systems that held fintechs back, and started Coris to build the infrastructure he wished he had.

The Opportunity

You will be the right hand to our Co-Founder/CEO, who brings two decades of payments and risk experience to Coris. On day one, you will own the Business Operations function, including finance, growth metrics, and board preparation, and build well beyond it. Our CEO spends his time where it counts most: customers, partners, and investors. Your mandate is to run the internal engine and extend his reach. You will sit in board meetings, fundraising conversations, and key customer negotiations, and you will be expected to have a point of view. This is an AI-first role at an AI-first company. We expect you to run every function you own with AI at the core, producing the output of a much larger team.

Your Mandate

• Finance, metrics, and the board: Own the operating dashboard (ARR, pipeline, retention, burn). Build board decks, investor updates, and financial models that hold up to scrutiny.
• Marketing, until we hire a Growth lead: Own product marketing, field marketing, and growth: positioning, launches, events, and pipeline-generating campaigns. Treat it as a GM assignment, not a placeholder.
• Company operations and talent: Run the operating cadence: leadership meetings, goals, all-hands, and decision follow-through. Drive recruiting for priority roles from pipeline to close.
• Strategic projects and partnerships: Quarterback initiatives that cut across product, sales, and compliance. Recent and upcoming examples: our merchant risk data-sharing consortium, our Stripe App Marketplace launch, and our annual State of Merchant Risk industry report. Support partnership work with banks and card networks, and deliver crisp analysis on competition, pricing,and new markets.
• AI leverage: Build AI into every workflow you touch: research,modes,decks,campaigns,and operations.Set the standard for howthe whole company works with AI.
• The unownedandthe urgent: Every week surfaces something that mattersandhas no owner.You find it frame it,and finish it.

Success in Your First90 Days

1. 30 days: You have absorbedthe Business Operations function ownthe company operating dashboard,and runthe cadenceofour weekly leadership meetings.

1. 60 days: You have automatedour monthly financialand metrics reportingwith AI delivered your first board-ready materials,and shipped your first marketing campaign.

3. 90 days: You ownboard prep endto end support marketingand GTM ops on your own,and atleast one AI workflow you built is usedbythe whole company.

Who You Are

• ~2-4 yearsat MBB(McKinsey/Bain/Boston Consulting Group) a top VC firm or an equivalent high-bar analytical environment
• AI-native: AI tools are your default for drafting analysis,and automation;you constantly push what they can do(required)
• You produce partner-ready workon startup timelines
• Financially fluent: models unit economics,and investor-grade materials come naturally
• A closer: you chase every loop until it is shut
• High ownership; low ego: as comfortable setting strategyas fixing a broken process
• Sound judgment with sensitive company; customer;and personnel information
• Genuinely curious about payments; risk;and AI; you will build domain depth fast
• In-person in Palo Alto

Why This Role Wins

• Direct apprenticeship with a CEO who has led organizations at scale in payments
• Real ownership of company-critical functions within your first month; not a note-taking role
• A proven launchpad: Chiefs of Staff at companies like ours become GMs; operators;and founders
• Competitive salary; meaningful equity;and benefits

Compensation

Base salary: $120000to$150000plus meaningful equity benefits401K offering Final compensation depends on experience demonstrated skills.

How to Apply

Send your resumeand a short note onthe hardest problem you have drivento resolution We read everything move fast.

Aboutthe interview

1 Initial callwith CEO 2 In-person interview 3 Take home case

Location Information

Palo Alto; CA; US(in-person required)

Remote Work Allowance

No mentionofremote work allowance; role requires in-person presencein Palo Alto.

Employment Type Keywords

Full-time

Experience Level Mentions

3+ years experience required ~2-4 yearsat MBBor equivalent analytical environment mentioned(mid-level/senior)

Skills Mentioned Explicitly or Implicitly

Technical Skills / Tools / Methodologies:

• AI Agents / AI tools(AI-native role)
• Financial modeling
• Metrics/dashboard ownership(ARR,pipeline,burn rate)
• Product marketing & growth campaigns
• Board deck & investor update preparation
• Strategic project management
• UseofAIfor automation & workflows

Soft Skills:

• High ownership & low ego
• Sound judgment handling sensitive info
• Closer mentality(follow-through)
• Curiosity about payments,risk,and AI domain knowledge building
• Abilityto produce partner-ready work under startup timelines

Salary Information

$120K - $150K base salary plus0.40% -0.70% equity stake plus benefits including401K.

Application URL or Link

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris/jobs