Chief of Staff, AI / Head of Platform

Scaling ocean innovation requires a different model, not just for capital, but for how we help founders scale.

Most investors scale portfolio support the old way: more people, more meetings, more decks. The team grows with the portfolio, and nothing compounds. We’re doing the opposite and building Rypples as an AI-native company.

What you’ll own

• Rypples, AI. A system of agents doing the heavy lifting, and people free to do: judgment and relationships. Sourcing, diligence, investor relations, finance: every function runs on people and agents you design, deploy and manage. Rypples becomes the proof of concept, and the portfolio learns from it.
• Operating partners. We work with two kinds: board-level partners who each look after one portfolio company, and Experts in People, Go-To-Market and Finance who work across the portfolio. You find them, onboard them, and give them the context, tools and agents to make a difference.
• Growth Readiness and Ocean Scalers. Growth Readiness is how we work side by side with founders to turn technology that works into a company that sells. Ocean Scalers is our peer-to-peer program for ocean CEOs. Our team and partners do the work with founders. You make the programs run: the design, the cadence, the right people in the room, and an agentic system handling the prep, follow-through and capture.
• RypplesOS. Every board meeting, engagement and session should make us smarter. You turn our experts and playbooks into an operating system that learns.
• Value creation. You see where a company is stuck, you step in, and you help it become AI-native too.
• Reporting that writes itself. Shareholder reports and portfolio dashboards come straight out of the system. Nobody chases spreadsheets.
• Rypples itself. Sourcing, diligence, investor relations, finance: every function runs on people and agents you design, deploy and manage. Rypples becomes the proof of concept, and the portfolio learns from it.

• You are a Chief of Staff in founder mode: you have worked side by side with a founder-CEO at a fast-growing startup, or built something yourself.
• You move fast and build fast. You ship a working version in days, not a plan in weeks.
• You are deeply AI-proficient. You have built agents and workflows that changed how a team works, and you use AI in everything you do.
• You are credible with CEOs, founder-operators and senior talent, and you communicate at executive level.
• You have run programs that founders valued, with strong cadence and follow-through.
• You are driven by ocean- and planet-positive impact.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.