Hiring: Chief of Staff Company: Arc Institute Location: Palo Alto, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 10:24:40 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AI, Machine Learning About the job Experience: •12+ years of experience, sufficient to serve as a genuine scientific thought partner. This role spans multiple levels; final leveling and compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience, scope of prior responsibility, and demonstrated impact. Required Skills: •Create leverage for the Executive Director's highest-priority scientific and organizational work by owning her operating rhythm, helping drive technical initiatives to completion, and connecting the right people, data, and resources to unblock science. •Be trusted with confidential scientific and organizational information and empowered to act on her behalf, so scientific judgment, discretion, and follow-through are essential. Qualifications: •You love engaging with science deeply across functional genomics, neuroscience and computational science •You are fluent across the experimental/computational divide. You are comfortable talking with wet-lab scientists and computational biologists alike and can help them collaborate effectively. •You are highly organized and 10/10 detail-oriented •You are a natural information gatherer, synthesizer and connector. You proactively seek out the right people and data, ask incisive technical questions, and turn a complex, ambiguous picture into clear options and recommendations. •You build trust and enable others. You are persuasive but tactful, bringing diplomacy, curiosity, and positive energy to every interaction. •You love structuring hard problems. You break ambiguous research initiatives into clear workstreams and deliverables, identify dependencies, and anticipate bottlenecks before anyone else. •You are a strong writer and communicator, able to translate technical work for non-specialist audiences without sacrificing accuracy. •You are unflappable and solution-oriented amid ambiguity, shifting priorities, and rapid change, and you handle confidential information with discretion. •You are mission-oriented and energized by accelerating science through great organization, coordination, and partnership. •In this position you will Compensation: •$160,000 - $237,500 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!