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title: 'Chief of Staff / COO at Neurons Lab'
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# Chief of Staff / COO at Neurons Lab

- **Company:** Neurons Lab
- **Location:** Poland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neurons-lab.com/6cd64342-2cd8-42eb-8e04-178548b30092

## Job description

Objective Own the operational, financial, and executional backbone of the company so that the CEO can focus on vision, growth, and external relationships. The Chief of Staff / COO ensures the executive team executes against strategy with discipline — through OKRs, accountable leadership, sound financial management, and a well-run operating system — so the company scales predictably and profitably.

KPI

- 100% of departments reviewed monthly against KPIs, OKRs, and Health Indicators, with documented recommendations
- Company profitability / EBITDA margin vs. plan
- Budget variance (actual vs. forecast) held within an agreed threshold
- Hiring bar maintained: consistent pass-rate against defined criteria and low early-tenure attrition on new hires
- Resource allocation (comp and budget) demonstrably tied to priority and merit, validated in periodic audits
- Executives satisfaction and retention across managed industry partnerships
- Adoption and reliability of the company Work OS across teams

Areas of Responsibility

Executive Team Management

- Run regular executive team meetings
- Ensure every department sets OKRs and Health Indicators for department, team, and individual levels
- Hold department C-level executives accountable for quarterly OKR execution
- Analyze KPIs, OKRs, and Health Indicators across all departments monthly and recommend improvements
- Train and develop other executives

Operations Team Management

- Own and maintain the company’s Work AI OS
- Provide leadership and direction to the Operations team

Strategic Planning & Execution

- Conduct strategic research for new internal projects
- Execute and control company strategy
- Partner closely with the CEO on company direction and decisions

Resource Allocation & Oversight

- Ensure compensation and budget allocation follow priority and merit
- Maintain a high, consistent hiring bar aligned with company principles

Financial Management

- Track profitability and perform financial forecasting
- Manage budgeting, including departmental budgets
- Control and optimize income and expenses
- Drive financial planning by analyzing company performance and risk

Partnerships

- Manage relationships with industry partners
- Provide onboarding support to partners

## Skills

- Strategic execution & OKR/performance-management systems — able to translate strategy into measurable goals and cadences
- Financial acumen — P&L ownership, budgeting, forecasting, and risk analysis
- Executive leadership & coaching — holding senior peers accountable and developing them
- Operational systems design — building and running a company-wide Work AI OS
- Data-driven decision making — synthesizing KPIs/OKRs/health indicators into clear recommendations
- Cross-functional stakeholder management — aligning departments with competing priorities
- Partnership management — building and sustaining external strategic relationships

Knowledge

- OKR, KPI, and health-indicator frameworks, and how to run them as a company-wide performance management system
- Financial statements, budgeting cycles, and forecasting methods suited to a professional-services /consulting business model
- Company operating-system methodologies and tooling and how to select and run one at scale
- Current state of the AI consulting and enterprise AI adoption market, so operational, hiring, and resourcing decisions track where the business is headed

## Experience

- 3+ years as an Associate Partner (or equivalent senior leadership role) at a top-tier strategy consultancy (McKinsey, BCG, or Bain), leading engagements on operating model design, organizational transformation, or performance management
- Prior experience operating (not just advising) inside a fast-growing company — having sat inside the business making the calls, not only recommending them
- Track record improving financial performance and risk visibility at a company-wide level, in a role with direct P&L or budget accountability
- Experience building or scaling a company operating system/management cadence from the ground up in a company of comparable size and growth stage
- Background leading or working with distributed/remote, cross-border teams

## What We Offer

- Competitive compensation — a monthly base plus expansion revenue upside, stock options
- Fully remote — outcomes over attendance
- Unlimited PTO
- Full-time contractor engagement with a fast-growing AI consultancy at the forefront of enterprise transformation

## About Neurons Lab

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neurons Lab is an AI engineering partner that helps Financial Services organizations adopt AI and build production-grade agentic systems, from initial use case definition through deployment and continuous delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped / Self-funded boutique firm)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (International House, 64 Nile Str, London, N1 7SR)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Igor Sydorenko (CEO & Co-Founder) and Alex Honchar (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Engineering & Consulting, focused exclusively on Financial Services (banking, capital markets, wealth management, insurance)
- **Target customers**: B2B — Fortune 500 financial institutions, large banks, wealth management firms, insurance companies, and adjacent regulated industries
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To help Financial Services organizations move from AI-curious to AI-enabled by building capability and deploying systems across core workflows — translating AI ambition into secure, scalable solutions that deliver commercial value.

## Products & Services
- **Custom AI Agents**: Deploy custom AI agents from discovery through production, enabling automation across core workflows with full auditability, traceability, and governance controls built in from the start. Decision logic is aligned with business rules and policies, designed for high-value workflows where accuracy, compliance, and scale are critical.
- **AI Training & Enablement**: Build AI fluency across teams, from engineering to the C-suite, through hands-on training grounded in the client's core workflows. Separate tracks for business and technical teams, with governance, compliance, and risk embedded from the start.
- **Continuous AI Delivery**: Post-deployment support with Forward-Deployed Engineers working alongside client teams to ensure systems continue to evolve. Governance, monitoring, and performance tracking are built in from the start, with AI adoption compounding across workflows over time.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private, self-funded boutique firm)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not disclosed (bootstrapped); the team reports 100+ AI implementations since 2019, including with Fortune 500 firms, and a team of 50+ AI engineers, architects, and analysts across Europe
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Anthropic (partner), AWS (Advanced Partner, among first 15 to achieve AWS GenAI Competency in Agentic AI), Google Cloud (Partner)
- **Growth Signals**: Achieved AWS AI Competency in the Agentic AI category; named clients include HSBC (aligned 50+ senior leaders on AI deployment and governance) and Visa (scaled marketing operations across 9+ markets with LLM-based content system); works with leading Asian banks on agentic AI assistants for relationship managers

## Competitive Advantages
- **FSI Domain Expertise**: Deep specialization in Financial Services (banking, capital markets, wealth management, insurance) means no translation layer between business intent and technical execution. Compliance, governance, and risk are built into system design from the start.
- **Embedded Co-Creation**: Unlike traditional consultancies, they co-create with client teams through embedded delivery, working alongside internal stakeholders to transfer knowledge and expand impact from inside the organization.
- **Accelerated Delivery**: Pre-built FSI agent components and proven deployment patterns allow delivery of working, production-grade systems in weeks rather than months.
- **Boutique Senior Teams**: Small, senior teams (50+ engineers/architects) rather than large junior-heavy teams, enabling high-quality, fast execution.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding agentic AI adoption within regulated financial environments, focusing on production-grade systems that operate within existing governance frameworks
- Building on partnerships with Anthropic, AWS, and Google Cloud to deliver cutting-edge AI solutions
- Deepening presence in wealth management, retail/corporate banking, private banking, SME banking, and insurance segments
- Scaling through a two-tier talent model (Core Team + Talent Network) to remain agile while growing

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Work from anywhere, with flexible hours — "design your day" philosophy
- **Benefits**: Unlimited PTO, flexible schedule, work on projects incorporating the latest AI technology (Anthropic, AWS, GCP)
- **Culture**: 7 guiding principles including ownership, genuine connections, and leadership development. Small, senior teams with high autonomy and low bureaucracy
- **Growth**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge agentic AI for Fortune 500 financial clients, with clear paths to leadership roles
- **Team structure**: Two collaboration options — Core Team (full-time, benefits-eligible) or Talent Network (project-based, minimum 0.33 FTE)
- **Interview process**: Fast, streamlined — application → screening interview → validation interview → qualification interview → reference check

## Sources
1. [neurons-lab.com](https://neurons-lab.com/about/)
2. [neurons-lab.com](https://neurons-lab.com/)
3. [neurons-lab.com](https://neurons-lab.com/careers/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neurons-lab.com)
5. [neurons-lab.com](https://neurons-lab.com/careers/core-team/)

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