Chief of Staff - SOLARA

Location: Hyderabad (Hybrid)

Experience: 3-6 years

Type: Full-time

SOLARA is a fast-growing D2C home & kitchen products brand operating across Amazon, Flipkart, Shopify, Blinkit, Swiggy, Zepto and other leading platforms. We're scaling rapidly with healthy contribution margins and are currently in an active growth phase.

We're scaling aggressively, and we need someone exceptional to help drive that growth.

This is not a typical Chief of Staff role. You won't just be coordinating meetings or managing projects. You'll be the CEO's strategic partnerowning critical company initiatives, driving cross-functional execution, and turning data into decisions.

Own Critical Company Initiatives (40%)

• Channel strategy execution: Analyze performance, recommend entry/exit decisions, negotiate with platforms
• SKU rationalization: Identify underperforming products, manage phase-outs, optimize portfolio
• Strategic projects that CEO needs done but doesn't have bandwidth for

Be the Company's Data Brain (30%)

• Build and maintain executive dashboards (revenue, margins, inventory, cash flow)
• Weekly/monthly MIS review and analysisfinding insights, flagging risks
• Own the numbersif the CEO asks a question, you either know the answer or get it in 30 minutes

Execute Cross-Functional Projects (20%)

• Coordinate with category, supply chain, finance, sales teams to drive execution
• Follow up relentlessly on key initiatives (you own outcomes, not just tasks)
• Bridge gaps between teamssolve bottlenecks, unblock decisions
• Run weekly business review meetings with department heads

Be the CEO's Sounding Board (10%)

• Sense-check strategic decisions with data
• Challenge assumptions constructively
• Bring outside perspectives and competitive intelligence
• Think like an owner, not an employee
  

1. Exceptional Excel/Data Skills

• Advanced Excel: Pivot tables, complex formulas, data modeling, macros
• Can build a P&L model from scratch
• Comfortable wrangling messy data from multiple sources
• Bonus: SQL, Python, or other data tools

2. AI-Native Mindset

• Already using Claude, ChatGPT, or similar tools in your daily work
• Comfortable prompting AI for analysis, research, content creation
• Can leverage AI to 10x your productivity
• We use Claude extensivelyyou should be fluent

3. Extreme Ownership

• You don't need handholding or detailed instructions
• If something needs to be done, you figure it out
• You're comfortable saying "I'll own this" and actually delivering
• No task is beneath youyou do what needs to be done

4. Entrepreneurial Hustle

• You've built something from scratch (side project, startup, 01 product)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-changing priorities
• Bias for action over analysis paralysis
• Resourcefulyou make things happen despite constraints

5. Business Acumen

• Understand P&Ls, unit economics, contribution margins
• Can think strategically but execute tactically
• Know when to be detailed vs. high-level
• Have opinions on business strategy (and can defend them with data)

• Experience in D2C, e-commerce, or consumer brands
• Worked in high-growth startups (seed to Series B)
• Prior consulting experience (MBB, Big 4, boutique)
• MBA from top-tier school OR proven track record without MBA
• Experience with ERP implementations (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
• Comfortable presenting to board
  

Need clear job descriptions and defined scope

Wait for instructions on what to do next

Prefer process over outcomes

Think "that's not my job"

Uncomfortable with numbers or financial models

Can't work independently

• See how a fast-growing consumer brand operates (finance, ops, sales, marketing)
• Be in the room for all major decisionsfundraising, M&A, strategy
• Work directly with CEO and board members
• Learn to build and scale a consumer brand

• Own entire company-critical projects from Day 1
• Your work directly impacts revenue, margins, and company success
• Not just supportingyou're driving

• Natural path to VP Operations, or GM role as we scale
• Or springboard to start your own company (we encourage this)
• Build a strong network with investors, operators, and entrepreneurs