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title: 'Chief of Staff at Everstar'
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# Chief of Staff at Everstar

- **Company:** Everstar
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/everstar/529aa24f-338c-472f-bd89-0fcb1abc7d31

## Job description

New York City (5 days on-site) · $160-190K base + equity + benefits U.S. Citizen Only (10 CFR Part 810 Export Controls) TL;DR: Early-stage, IC-heavy CoS role for a builder who wants to run the operating system of the company.

The Mission We’re building the AI that makes nuclear power actually deployable—collapsing licensing and delivery timelines from decades to years. Gordian, our platform, already accelerates work for utilities, advanced reactor companies, and major tech. We pair deep nuclear expertise with frontier AI and move with startup speed. Now we need a Chief of Staff to turn momentum into machinery.

## The Role (reporting to the CEO)

Not an EA. Not a scheduler. This is an IC-heavy role. You’ll run the operating system of the company and remove friction from the work that matters most. Think 70% internal execution / 30% external orchestration with investors, clients, and partners like Accenture and hyperscalers. Most weeks you’ll be building docs, systems, and processes yourself—then iterating them as we scale. You will:

- Run the exec OS: set and maintain weekly plans, capture decisions within 24 hours, keep quarterly goals (OKRs) live and visible, surface risks/roadblocks early.
- Own cross-functional programs: from hiring blitzes to product/partner launches; keep the Gantt real, not pretty, and ship the artifacts (timelines, owners, checklists) that make it happen.
- Communicate like a star: spin ideas into investor updates, partner one-pagers, and external comms that don’t waste words.
- Coordinate hiring (not HR): calibrate roles, keep the funnel moving, organize interview loops, and land candidates quickly.
- Make compliance boring: drive completion of vendor security/IT questionnaires and light procurement processes so deals don’t stall.
- Instrument the business: take ambiguity and turn it into dashboards, trackers, and decisions—starting in Sheets/Notion, improving over time.
- Raise our profile: help run events, coordinate outreach to students and candidates, and be one of the operational “faces” of the business.

A sample week: close out quarterly strategy meeting action items; prep new-hire swag kits; cross-compare contract documents for a new client; run hiring stand-up; turn a founder’s brain dump into a crisp one-pager; unblock two team dependencies; publish the weekly plan.

## How You Like to Work

- You prefer being in the office with the core team 5 days a week.
- You don’t flinch at long days when it matters; you care more about impact than strict hours.
- You’re low-ego, direct, and kind—and you’d rather fix the problem than win the argument.

## What You’ve Done

- 4–8 years in roles where you actually owned outcomes: Chief of Staff, founder, first bizops/ops hire, GM, or similar. Pure slide-making / advisory without ownership is not a fit.
- Built and owned lightweight systems that survived reality (calendars, hiring funnels, project trackers, decision logs) in tools like Notion/Linear/Slack/GDocs.
- Shipped cross-functional projects where you were the one keeping everyone honest on deadlines, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
- Elite writing (short, precise) and executive presence (calm + direct).
- Comfortable switching from 30,000-ft strategy to “change cell E43 and ship” in the same hour.
- AI-native, already using use tools like ChatGPT; you’re excited to master Gordian.
- No nuclear/AI background required—only the will to learn fast.

What Success Looks Like (90 days)

- Exec cadence is predictable; key decisions are documented and visible within 24 hours.
- Top-10 initiatives hit ≥90% on-time milestones.
- Hiring SLAs met weekly; time-to-offer < 35 days for priority roles.
- Major meeting/event prep lands T–5 days before; zero scramble.
- At least one “from-scratch” system you built (for hiring, planning, or delivery) is now part of how the company runs.

Growth Path Over time, strong CoS hires may grow into Head of Ops, Head of Partnerships, or GM roles as the company scales. First, you’ll prove you can run the core operating system of the business.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Base $160-190K, equity depending on experience; standard benefits (health/dental/vision, FSA).
- In-person NYC (midtown/Bryant Park). Occasional travel.

How to Apply (show, don’t tell) Complete the application with:

- Resume AND LinkedIn profile
- Writing sample: a 1–2 page real-life artifact you created (board memo, program plan, partner one-pager, etc.)
- 200 words: “What excites you most about Everstar’s mission?”
- 150 words: “Describe a system you built that made your company move faster. What changed because of it?”

We respond to strong submissions within one week.

## About Everstar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Everstar builds AI that accelerates the design, licensing, and construction of nuclear technologies to reindustrialize America’s energy and defense infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds: pre-seed, seed, and venture)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Kevin Kong (CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Nuclear energy deployment, AI-powered compliance and licensing, industrial automation.
- Target customers: Nuclear operators, developers, and government agencies (NRC, DOE, DoD); also utilities and industrial customers needing regulatory compliance.
- Mission or purpose statement: Engineer energy abundance by enabling rapid, safe, and scalable deployment of nuclear power.

## Products & Services
- **[Gordian]**: An AI platform for nuclear licensing and regulatory compliance. It slashes regulatory timelines from years to months by converting dormant documentation into active intelligence. (SaaS/AI platform)
- **Sensor Integration, Computer Vision, Robotics-Enabled Manufacturing**: Beyond language models, Everstar is pioneering solutions in hardware integrations for manufacturing quality control and autonomous plant operations. (Hardware + AI)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $13.5M across three rounds (pre-seed $4M, seed $4M, venture $5.5M) as of November 2025.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Third Prime (lead), Pelican Energy Partners, EXCEL Services (strategic partner and investor), Virta Ventures, Generational Partners, Page One Ventures. Partners include EXCEL Services Corp., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense.
- **Growth Signals**: Team grew 4.8% YoY to ~20 employees; LinkedIn followers increased 272% yearly; operates in 5 countries; secures landmark partnership with EXCEL Services; collaboration with a U.S. National Laboratory.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Elite team** drawn from NRC, CIA, Google, Microsoft, SpaceX, and Tesla, combining deep nuclear domain expertise with AI capabilities.
- **Deep regulatory integration**: Works directly with the NRC, DOE, and DoD to proactively shape compliance standards.
- **Proprietary data and partnerships**: Through EXCEL Services, Everstar has access to unparalleled regulatory archives and specialist networks.
- **Speed as a moat**: Compresses historically slow licensing and construction phases (e.g., years to days for regulatory approval) using advanced chain-of-thought reasoning and autonomous workflows.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the Gordian compliance platform to handle 400 GW of nuclear capacity by 2050.
- Expand into workforce training, autonomous plant operations, and manufacturing quality assurance via AI and robotics.
- Forge deeper partnerships with government agencies and national labs to accelerate nuclear deployment for AI data centers and national security.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Tackle one of the hardest problems in energy—nuclear deployment—with direct impact on climate change and national security.
- **Cross-disciplinary culture**: Values like “Mission First,” “Wartime Urgency,” “First Principles Thinking,” and “No Excuses” attract top talent from AI, nuclear, defense, and manufacturing.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage company (20 people) with significant funding and high-profile partnerships; chance to shape product and culture from the ground up.
- **Work environment**: Headquarters in New York, NY with offices in Long Island City and Hong Kong. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but the company has a distributed presence across 5 countries.

## Sources
1. [Everstar AI website](https://everstar.ai/)
2. [Everstar About page](https://everstar.ai/about)
3. [Everstar Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/everstar)
4. [Everstar LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/everstar)
5. [PRNewswire – Everstar Secures $4M Pre-Seed Funding](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/everstar-secures-4m-in-pre-seed-funding-to-revolutionize-nuclear-compliance-with-ai-302379015.html)

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