Chief of Staff
Global Chief of Staff – Founder’s Office
📍 Preferred: London, Singapore, Dubai, New Delhi, New York or Remote (tier-1 global cities)
💼 Role: Strategic Partner | Compensation: Equity Only (Payout upon Series A / Strategic Liquidity)
✉️ Apply: ceo@shepherds.homes
🏢 About Shepherds
Real estate has remained remarkably resistant to operating innovation.
It’s still opaque, under-optimized, trust-deficient, and ruled by legacy silos.
Shepherds is changing that — not by building a listings portal, but by constructing the operating system for real estate infrastructure in India and the Global South.
We turn premium homes, villas, retail corridors, and idle land into yield-generating, intelligently managed, and globally governed assets — powered by pricing AI, ops automation, hospitality playbooks, and compliant financial architecture.
In an age of abstraction, Shepherds is rooted in the concrete — and scaling with software.
Now spanning India, UAE, Singapore, London, and the Bay Area, Shepherds is assembling a globally distributed leadership network — with C-suite architects across AI, finance, capital, governance, and demand.
But strategy without structure breaks.
We are now hiring a Global Chief of Staff to sit inside the founder’s circle, and build the connective tissue between vision, execution, and accountability.
🎯 The Role
In war rooms, there are two types of power: the one that speaks, and the one that listens before anything is said.
As Global Chief of Staff, you will be the latter — calm, precise, invisible yet central.
You will sit beside the founder.
You will orchestrate a global company operating across timezones, legal jurisdictions, asset classes, and capital corridors.
You will not manage — you will align.
You will not control — you will structure.
You will not report — you will remember what matters when others forget.
This is not a salaried job.
It is an equity-first, performance-based partnership for someone who wants to earn their seat — and help build an institution that outlives its founders.
🔧 Core Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain the global operating cadence across all Shepherds verticals: Capital (SG/Mumbai), Ops (Dubai/India), Governance (London), AI (Bay Area)
- Drive strategic execution across liquidity planning, FO syndicates, Series A readiness, and city expansion
- Structure and professionalize internal governance: from board decks to risk logs to compliance metrics
- Align leadership priorities with tactical execution: investor roadshows, city P&Ls, hiring, legal reviews
- Serve as founder proxy in sensitive, high-leverage conversations (internal or external)
- Build Shepherds’ invisible architecture — decision matrices, cross-border trust flows, Notion systems
- Orchestrate regulatory and risk-proofing operations across asset onboarding, FO capital, and legal entities
- Prepare the org for institutional scrutiny, due diligence, and board governance cycles
🧠 You Might Be a Fit If…
- You’ve worked in strategic advisory, private equity ops, global founder’s offices, or high-trust policy environments
- You think in systems, write in paragraphs, and act in clear lines
- You’re as comfortable with a private trust structuring memo as you are in a 4AM ops fire call
- You understand how institutions protect reputation — and how start-ups scale without losing soul
- You believe words must match structure, and structure must match capital
- Bonus: you or your family own real estate in India — and know the friction of managing it from abroad
📍 Ideal Background
- Ex-VC, Private Wealth, McKinsey/BCG, Global MBA (INSEAD, Wharton, LBS, ISB)
- Legal/Compliance exposure, especially in RE or cross-border structuring
- Trusted operator: someone who’s already been behind a founder or fund
- Based in (or plugged into) London, Dubai, Singapore, or global capital corridors
- Wants to build the most ethical, performance-oriented real estate infrastructure company of the next decade
💎 What You’ll Receive
- Founding-level equity, directly negotiated with the CEO
- Payouts tied to capital events, performance, or strategic liquidity
- Complete access to Shepherds’ capital, compliance, tech, ops, and strategic layers
- Your name on the company’s invisible structure — the playbook no one else sees
- Optional transition into CxO: Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Governance Officer
📩 To Apply
Email: ceo@shepherds.homes
Subject: Global Chief of Staff – [Your Name]
Include:
- Your profile or CV
- A 1-page articulation: “What are the invisible systems a real estate infra company must build before scale?”