We’re Hiring: Fractional Chief of Staff
Please, someone who can work with both humans and agents (and can tell the difference)
Hello! I run Strange Ventures, a deep tech investment and research platform focused on the future of computing. If you read The Strange Review, you already know the model: original research, high-value events, and a growing community of technical founders and enterprise leaders.
I am looking for someone (a unicorn!) to build the operational layer underneath all of it so I can stay focused on research, relationships, and investments.
You would work directly with me to keep three engines running: events, community, and publishing. You are not managing a team. You are the team, working alongside me and a growing set of AI tools and agents.
Type: Fractional, 5 to 10 hours/week
Location: San Francisco
Compensation: Hourly
The Role
Events
We host invitation-only gatherings that bring together deep tech founders, enterprise technology leaders, and investors. These range from intimate 12-person dinners to a flagship annual summit of 60 to 80 people.
You would own event logistics end-to-end: invite lists and outreach, coordinate with co-hosts and partners, handle day-of execution, and build repeatable systems so each event does not start from scratch.
Publishing
The platform publishes a research newsletter, periodic deep dives on emerging technology sectors, and investor communications.
You would manage the editorial calendar and publishing pipeline. You would handle production: formatting, scheduling, distribution.
Community
The platform maintains a network of technical founders, enterprise operators, researchers, and investors. Our ecosystem is the connective tissue between the events and the research.
You would coordinate community programs, and identify opportunities to connect people across the network.
The Scope: Working with AI and Humans
This role sits at the intersection of human relationships and AI systems. On any given day you might be coordinating speakers for an upcoming event, writing a personal outreach email to a founder, and building an automated workflow for event distribution.
We already use AI agents extensively for workflow automation. You would work inside these systems daily, reviewing outputs, improving prompts, managing projects, and helping decide what should be automated versus what requires human judgment and personal touch.
The best version of this role is someone who knows that a warm introduction requires a human and that a research synthesis can start with an agent, and who can move between both modes without friction. I am not looking for someone who is “open to AI.” I am looking for someone who already works this way and can help us get better at it.
Who You Are
You should have:
Experience working directly with a founder, GP, or senior executive in a high-autonomy, low-structure environment
A track record of shipping: events that happened, publications that went out, systems that worked.
Comfort with AI tools as part of your daily workflow, not as experiments. You use them. You have opinions about them.
Strong written communication. Everything you produce, from emails to briefs to event copy, should be clear and sharp.
The ability to context-switch between logistics and strategy without losing the thread on either.
Low-ego, high integrity.
Bonus:
Familiarity with venture capital, deep tech, or the startup ecosystem
Experience producing editorial content or managing a publication
Experience planning and executing events, especially curated, invite-only formats
This is not the right fit if:
You need detailed instructions to start moving. This is a figure-it-out role.
You see AI as something happening to other people’s jobs, not something you actively build with.
You want a path to a full-time executive position. This is designed to be fractional and flexible.
You are stronger at planning than executing. We need the thing done, not the plan for the thing.
How to Apply
Submit your resume and answers to a few questions here. We review applications in batches and will respond within two weeks.
We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.