Chief of Staff

About Qualitate

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Qualitate is the AI-native primary intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. We automate primary research end to end, from study design and expert recruitment to AI-moderated interviews and synthesis. Weeks of manual work become hours.

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Expert research is slow, expensive, and manual. Investment and strategy teams burn hundreds of hours wrangling intermediaries and scheduling calls, only to get insights that go stale in weeks.

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Our AI Moderator interviews thousands of experts every month, capturing purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. We turn those interviews into quantified time-series data on 10,000+ public and private companies, queryable in plain English. Customers include some of the world’s largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and VCs.

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The role

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Join Qualitate as Chief of Staff. You’ll support our leadership team - primarily our CEO and founder, Sagar Kadakia - across all cross-functional workstreams. From product to sales to operations, you’ll have a hands-on role across the organization. Some weeks you’ll be building a model or a board deck. Others you’ll be on calls with corporate and investor customers, testing a new research product, or fixing a broken process yourself. We want someone who would rather ship something than write a memo about it.

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In return, you’ll see from the inside how an AI-native company is built, at a pace few companies match. You’ll work directly with the CEO and be a part of the founding team, and you’ll leave ready to run a business of your own. Above all, we’re looking for judgment and execution. You’ve worked somewhere that moves fast, you have a perfectionist’s attention to detail, and you know how to work against a tight deadline.

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What you’ll do

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• Run the CEO’s top priorities. Take a project from a rough idea to a finished result, scoping it in days, not weeks.
• Support cross-functional projects. Work with Sales and Product on new go-to-market plays, help win strategic accounts at investment firms and enterprises, and build partnerships.
• Explore expansion opportunities. Size new markets for Qualitate’s data, test new offerings with customers, and build the case for where we go next.
• Run the operating cadence. Assist with quarterly/annual planning, leadership meetings, and make sure every decision turns into an owner, a deadline, and a result.
• Keep the team moving. Decide what matters most, clear blockers across teams, and keep communication clear and fast.

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Who this role is for

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• 2-6 years in a high-performance environment. Ideally at a tech startup, management consultant, investment bank, or investment firm.
• Attention to detail. You can make sense out of messy data, you don’t make typos, and you can be trusted with executive-level communications.
• A crisp communicator. You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A track record of excellence. You’ve stood out wherever you’ve been, in school, at work, or elsewhere.
• AI-native. You use AI daily to research, analyze, and automate, and you look for ways to make the whole team faster with it. It’s core to how we work.
• High ownership, low ego. You want to help build Qualitate, not watch it being built. You do the work that needs doing, whatever it is.

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What sets you apart

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• Experience in a Chief of Staff, BizOps, or BD role at an early-stage startup.
• A background in expert networks, market research, or data products.

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Who this role isn’t for

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• You’d rather advise than execute.
• You need a lot of structure, or you value process over progress.
• You don’t want to get into the details.

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Compensation & benefits

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• Base salary: $140-180K, based on experience.
• Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant.
• Benefits: Health coverage, flexible PTO, paid holidays.
• Location: NYC. In-person Mon-Wed, remote Thu-Fri.

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What to expect working at Qualitate

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• Excellence. An exceptionally high bar for quality and impact.
• Speed. Fast growth, fast decisions, fast impact.
• Agency. We hire people we trust to figure it out.
• A builder’s mindset. You’ll write the playbooks that define how we scale.
• Shared ambition. A small team taking on a multi-billion dollar industry with AI.
• Joy. We work hard and love working together.

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Qualitate is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.