Chief of Staff, Hedra
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AI lab empowering creation with AI
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AI lab empowering creation with AI
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build foundation models into products that power the next generation of human storytelling.
Role
Who you are
- This is a deeply cross-functional role for a high-caliber generalist who thrives in ambiguity, learns fast, and is looking
- Have 3-6+ years of experience in strategy/operations at a high-growth startup, consulting, or finance
- Are analytical, organized, and detail-oriented, with a proven track record of executing complex projects end-to-end
- Generalist mindset with strong strategic thinking and a bias for action. No project is too big or too small
- Are a strong communicator and collaborator who can move easily between project management and hands-on execution
- Strong finance and modeling fundamentals to support budgeting, forecasting, and data-driven decision-making
- Have exposure to creative tooling and/or generative AI companies, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- As Chief of Staff, you will take ownership over critical day-to-day operations and help scale the company through its next phase of growth
- You’ll work closely with the CEO and leadership team across marketing, talent, sales, and product to drive critical initiatives forward
- Drive high priority cross-functional operations. Identify and fill gaps across marketing, GTM, legal, talent, and other critical parts of the business to ensure execution of company-critical projects
- Manage strategic finance. Own and coordinate financial operations including vendor negotiations, tax, accounting, cost optimization, and managing invoices
- Support customer success & onboarding. Facilitate early customer conversations, coordinate pilots, and ensure communication with customers
- Help recruit, onboard, and manage the team. Take over critical people operations systems and ensure new hires can thrive in their respective roles
- Lead ad hoc initiatives. Drive high-priority projects such as SOC2 certification, planning offsites, fundraising processes, etc. This role requires someone who will roll up their sleeves on whatever is needed
Our take
The relationship between machine learning and online content has grown closer in recent years, and Hedra is a video content platform that is pushing this symbiosis into new territory. Working as a content engine, Hedra's online creation studio helps users generate dialogue, audio and video from words.
As a digital presence automation tool, Hedra is moving beyond the likes of DallE and generative AI video content into more nuanced territory. For example, its product known as Character is a video foundation model for longer-form video generation focusing on customizable AI-generated video characters.
Between the version one release of Character in June 2024 and the company's fundraise that same August, more than 1.6 million videos had already been generated via the platform. This demonstrates the demand that exists for Hedra's offering. A new fundraise in 2025, which reportedly takes the company’s valuation to $200 million, will support the advancement of the quality and controllability of its models.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2025
$32m
SERIES A
Aug 2024
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $42m
Company benefits
- Equity
- 401k (no match)
- Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
- Gym access (at our office)
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Lingelbach
(Founder & CEO)Previously Regina Casper Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University, was an Intern at NVIDIA, Postbaccaulaureate researcher at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a Scholar at the Janelia Research Campus.
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