Chief of Staff to Founder for Late stage Fintech

Job Description: Chief of Staff to the Founder

Company: Late-Stage Fintech Startup

Title: Chief of Staff

Reporting to: Founder / CEO

Location: Bangalore (On-site)

Stage: Late-Stage

About the Role

We are seeking a high-capacity, strategic Chief of Staff to partner directly with the Founder of a late-stage Fintech startup during a critical period of scale. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and can operate as a true force-multiplierbridging vision and execution, improving operational clarity, and driving cross-functional alignment across a complex, regulated domain like fintech.

Responsibilities

Strategic Execution & Planning

• Convert the Founders fintech vision into structured operating plans, OKRs, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive strategic initiatives across product, risk, compliance, credit, GTM, and operations.
• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities across the organization and recommend data-backed solutions.
• Lead quarterly and annual planning cycles and ensure cross-functional alignment.

Founder Leverage

• Serve as a strategic thought partnerbringing clarity, structure, and insight to Founder priorities.
• Prepare briefs, insights, and recommendations for board, investor, regulatory, and leadership meetings.
• Represent the Founder in internal and external forums when needed.
• Manage the flow of communication to ensure effective decision-making and follow-through.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Facilitate collaboration across product, engineering, compliance, credit, finance, and GTM teams.
• Own and optimize key operating cadences: leadership syncs, business reviews, and all-hands.
• Ensure fintech-specific priorities (risk, compliance, regulatory requirements, fraud, payments operations) are aligned across teams.

Special Projects & Strategic Initiatives

• Lead high-impact cross-functional projects such as:
• New fintech product launches
• Regulatory readiness initiatives
• Credit, risk, and fraud optimization
• Strategic partnerships with banks, NBFCs, networks, or ecosystem players
• Conduct research, analysis, and due diligence to support strategic decisions.
• Build new processes, systems, or internal structures to support scale and compliance.

Board, Investor & External Stakeholder Management

• Own preparation for board meetingsfintech KPIs, unit economics, risk metrics, and growth narrative.
• Support investor reporting, fundraising materials, and strategic partnerships.
• Coordinate select engagements with financial institutions, auditors, regulators, or partners.

Qualifications

• 58 years of experience in one of the following:
• Top-tier consulting (MBB)
• Venture Capital (with fintech exposure preferred)
• High-growth startup operator roles (strategy, bizops, product, risk, or special projectsfintech experience a plus)
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to operate in both high-level vision and granular detail.
• Exceptional communicationclear, structured, and executive-ready.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives without formal authority.
• Comfort working in a regulated, data-driven, fast-moving fintech environment.
• High EQ, strong stakeholder management, and ability to handle confidential information.