Helium
Chief of Staff
San Francisco, CA, US · Not specified
- Annual base salary
- $120k – $160k USD
- Equity
- Not disclosed
- Commitment
- Full Time
- Company stage
- Not disclosed
Compensation as listed
$120K - $160K • 0.30% - 0.60%
About Helium
- Helium is building Self-Improving Software:
- Our vision is AI that automatically generates & tests new experiences to lift revenue.
- To start, we’re automating onboarding flows for mobile apps & quickly expanding to new surfaces.
- We're an extremely talent-dense team
- 3/4 of the team previously founded companies
- All 3 cofounders have ML degrees
- Generated $Xb in revenue growth for our previous companies.
- We're scaling quickly
- Servers have been on fire since launch this Summer
- We power tens of millions of AI experience for top consumer companies
- Backed by >$5M from Y Combinator, Google’s AI fund, and leaders from OpenAI
- Benefits
- Build on the newest AI models, even before they're released publicly
- Work with a stellar hard-working team at a prime office in SF
- All meals (Breakfast, lunch, dinner) while working and gym/transport covered.
About the role
Helium is building Self-Improving Software: AI that automatically generates & tests new software experiences to lift revenue. We’re…
- Talent-dense (8 people, 6 engineers, 75% ex-founders)
- Well-funded ($6M from Google & Leaders from OpenAI)
- Fast-growing (Doubled revenue this month & Serving tens of millions of users per day)
AI has created a once-in-history opportunity, and we’re here to win, because of that
- 🔴 We work hard — In-Office Monday–Friday, and often push through weekends 🔴
What You’ll Do
Helium is growing extremely fast — We're looking for someone to be the CEO's right hand. You’ll…
- Be the CEO's force multiplier — Take on strategic projects and run them end-to-end (growth, fundraising, hiring, expansion)
- Work directly with customers to make them successful (Onboarding, Activation, Support)
- Build the operational infrastructure (processes, automations, tools) for our next 1000 customers
- Have a great understanding of our product, and constantly propose and spec improvements
- Take on special projects (growth, events, recruiting) that are strategically important
- Do whatever it takes to help us 10x revenue over the next 3 months
What We’re Looking For
- You have 1-4 years of experience in a fast-paced operations environment (startups, consulting, banking, etc)
- You get shit done: You have a proven track record of building things, launching game-changing projects, and having impact on tight timelines.
- You bring order to chaos: You’re organized and think structurally. You can take a messy problem and turn it into a plan.
- You’re a top 1% communicator: People understand you and like you. You’re able to navigate tricky, high-conflict situations with tact.
- You’re creative and proactive: You find ways to accelerate your work and get better with ever rep
- You’re low ego: You jump on the bug, take the late-night support ticket, and do whatever it takes to solve the problems you face.
Bonus Points
- Background in a high-intensity environment (consulting, banking, startup, sport, military).
- Prior experience at an early-stage startup.
- You use AI to 10x your output while maintaining high standards.
In your application, please include the following (in 3-6 sentences max)
- Your SAT/ACT score
- What’s a time you successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?
- What was the hardest you ever worked on something? How hard did you work, why did you work so hard, and how did it go?
Technology
Here are the technical problems you're solving:
• RL for software personalization - dynamic assignment of price, paywalls, and experiences to different users based on what improves metrics
• Automated a/b testing - building systems that automatically chooses and runs new paywall experiments to run based on analytics + codegen models
• AI editor - think Bolt/Lovable for paywalls
• Billion scale content serving - we're building a python service to process thousands of QPS that serving assets to millions of phones daily → soon to be billions
• Mobile webview optimization - building a webview layer that feels native across 4 mobile stacks
Source: Y Combinator. Confirm availability with the employer.
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