--- title: 'Chief of Staff at Jua' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/chief-of-staff-jua-zurich-8h4p7850qqqw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-27' --- # Chief of Staff at Jua - **Company:** Jua - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jua/5ef857cc-aa4e-45e0-a423-988c3add3b86 ## Job description ## Overview Physical AI, a real model of the world, is the next trillion dollar opportunity and a foundational pillar for energy, robotics and superintelligence. At Jua we are building it now. Our models already run on four continents and help power the energy buildout needed to support ever larger intelligence. We are assembling a world-class team of researchers and entrepreneurial minds to turn this model into reality at global scale. If you want the opportunity of your life, come build physical AI with us. ## The Role You work directly with Jua’s Leadership. You operate as a force multiplier — plugging into whatever's highest-leverage that day, from fundraising and investor work to product calls, deals, and fixing what's broken before it slows us down. What you're pulled into will shift as the business does — some stretches this is heavily fundraising and investor-facing, others it's operational firefighting or unsticking a cross-functional project. The pace is high, the context load is real, and you'll see everything. This is also a launchpad into an executive leadership role. This role is best suited for someone who has been an early-stage operator or ex-founder, and has hands-on experience with start-ups that are still in the build-phase. If that's you, expect a founder's vantage point on how Jua scales — the pace and stakes of building it yourself, without carrying it alone. ## What You Will Do - Problem-solve directly with the leadership team on the highest-leverage issues across the business — from product, marketing and operations to fundraising and partnerships. - Sit in high-stakes meetings with customers, investors, and strategic partners, and turn what happens there into clear next steps. - Bring clarity to priorities and make sure decisions actually turn into action. - Build lightweight dashboards and operating rhythms that help the team learn from data that's still evolving — without pretending it's cleaner than it is. - Be the glue across the business: spot where cross-functional work is stuck and personally unblock it — including outside your core areas, whether that's a marketing crunch, a vendor issue, or whatever's fallen through the cracks. - Write sharp briefs, investor materials, and internal notes. - Handle practical execution when it matters — travel, schedules, logistics, on-site coordination. ## Who You Are - A fast learner who can switch contexts without dropping quality — the mix of what you're doing will genuinely change over time, and you're energised by that rather than needing it to settle. - Real depth in one or two areas, not experience scattered thinly across many — we'd rather see two or three things you've actually driven than a long list of things you've touched. - Comfortable with data and analytical tools (vibe coding is enough) — precise enough to help the team make calls on metrics that are still taking shape, without waiting for perfect numbers. - A clear, concise communicator who compresses complexity. - High ownership and bias toward action. - Comfortable with ambiguity — figuring things out as you go — and good at building real relationships across the team to get things done through others. - Challenges directly — firm, honest input with no ego or personal agenda — then backs the CEO's call fully, including the ones that don't pan out. - Spots problems before anyone else does, and gets ahead of them — not just reactive once something's already stuck. - A professional background in a leadership position in one of the following domains, along with cross-functional experience in other parts of the business too: Product, Commercial, People and/or Engineering. - Hands-on experience at an early-stage startup that is still building, still raising — or founder experience — is a strong plus over scale-up experience. ## Requirements - Zurich-based strongly preferred - either current location or planning to relocate. - Frequent short-notice travel to the UK, Nordics, US, and Asia. - Comfortable operating at high speed with fast decision cycles. - Professional experience, relationships or network relevant to Jua's industry and customer base preferred. At Jua, we foster a performance culture and value people who embody our beliefs of service and adventure. We prioritize agility, operating at the highest clock speed to adapt quickly to change. We innovate on behalf of our users and leverage data supremacy to maintain our competitive edge. Through clear communication and fact-based decision-making, we ensure alignment in our pursuit of excellence. With these principles, we aim to create a customer-focused, value-centric organization that sets new standards in the industry. We value the unique perspectives that each individual brings to the table and believe that embracing diverse backgrounds and experiences enriches our collective journey towards growth and success. ## About Jua ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Jua is a frontier AI lab building a foundation model for reality – a large physics model that learns from data to predict, simulate, and act within the physical world, starting with the atmosphere. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; latest round $11.4M closed July 2025 per LinkedIn, conflicting reports indicate $11M Series A in June 2025 bringing total to $27M) - **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Marvin Gabler (CEO & Co-Founder); other co-founders not publicly named ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence, Climate Tech, Energy, Physical AI - **Target customers**: B2B – energy traders, utilities, hedge funds, Fortune 500 companies; expanding to agriculture, logistics, and manufacturing - **Mission**: “A foundation model for reality” – to build the layer every physical AI system runs on top of, starting with the hardest continuous‑physics dataset (the atmosphere) and transferring to any domain governed by physical laws. ## Products & Services - **EPT-2 (Earth Prediction Transformer 2.0)**: A proprietary large physics model trained on petabytes of multi‑domain data. Outperforms ECMWF on atmospheric prediction and transfers to airfoils, shock waves, and other physics domains. Powers the Earth Intelligence Platform. - **Athena**: An agent that resolves objectives inside physical reality. Given an objective, a world model, and tools, it simulates consequences and acts. In production for energy trading, utility management, and internal research. Also runs Jua’s employee quant fund. - **Earth Intelligence Platform**: A decision engine that simulates global and local weather, energy supply‑demand, and grid‑level dynamics in real‑time. Used by leading energy trading firms to anticipate pricing and automate decisions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metrics**: - Annual Revenue: $7.6M (LinkedIn estimate) - Total Funding: $41.7M (LinkedIn, including seed, pre‑seed, non‑equity assistance, and Series A) OR $27M (Tech.eu, citing $11M Series A in June 2025) – conflicting reports - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ananda Impact Ventures, Future Energy Ventures, 468 Capital, Promus Ventures, GGF - **Growth Signals**: - Powering 100+ GW worldwide (company website) - In production with Fortune 500 companies, energy traders, and leading hedge funds - Athena drives decisions on energy trading desks globally - Expanding into agriculture, logistics, and adjacent markets - Hiring actively (8 open positions as of profile date) ## Competitive Advantages - **State‑of‑the‑art atmospheric prediction**: Beats every incumbent, including ECMWF, the institution that defined the field for forty years - **Physics transfer**: The same model trained on weather handles airfoils, shock waves, and other physical domains – a true foundation model of physics - **Agent‑first architecture**: Athena is a universal agent that can be pointed at any physical objective (prediction, trading, research acceleration, etc.) - **Research‑led**: Peer‑reviewed publications at ICLR and NeurIPS; profits reinvested into R&D ## Strategic Focus - Scale the commercial rollout of the Earth Intelligence Platform, especially in energy - Expand into adjacent markets (agriculture, logistics, manufacturing, materials) - Double down on R&D to extend the world model beyond the atmosphere into turbomachinery, thermal, and other domains - Become the layer every physical AI system runs on top of ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: “Small team, long hours, one kitchen” – a tight‑knit, high‑impact environment. Six values include “Factfulness” and “Research‑led.” Focus on outcomes, not hours. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Zurich‑based employees can work from anywhere in the world for one month each year. Otherwise, in‑office in Zurich (“with each other”). - **Perks & benefits**: - Company stock options - Annual budget for courses, books, conferences - Budget for equipment of your choice - Daily chef‑cooked lunches in the office - Paid vacation, sick leave, parental leave, plus local holidays - Team retreats at inspiring locations - **Engineering culture**: Fast‑paced, research‑forward. Work on the hardest problems in physical AI. Hiring process is about three weeks with a trial day; most candidates hear back within 48 hours. - **Talent sources**: ETH Zürich (top feeder), Stanford, and top labs – strong academic pedigree. ## Sources 1. [jua.ai](https://jua.ai/) – Company website (product descriptions, mission, metrics) 2. [jua.ai/careers](https://jua.ai/careers/) – Careers page (culture, hiring process, benefits) 3. [LinkedIn – Jua](https://www.linkedin.com/company/juaai/) – Company details, financials, headcount, open roles 4. [Tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/jua-raises-11m-to-scale-earth-simulation-platform-for-energy-and-climate-forecasting/) – Series A announcement and platform details 5. 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