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

- **Company:** Sphinx
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphinx/9ce35420-fcf7-47d9-a5f7-519c697f3aff

## Job description

tl;dr: We're automating compliance for banks and fintechs with AI agents that work like human analysts. We're looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO — someone who can operate across every function of the business, make the founder faster, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks as we scale. If you're the person who makes everything around them run better, we should talk.

Background Before you can move money or open an account, someone has to make sure you’re not a criminal. That’s compliance – and it’s broken. Sphinx builds AI analysts that work inside browsers, APIs, and internal systems just like humans — automating AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring end-to-end. We help banks and fintechs eliminate 90% of manual work, cut compliance costs by 4×, and make onboarding instantaneous. We’re trusted by leading institutions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and LatAm.

## Why Join Sphinx

- Massive, unsexy market: Banks spend $50B a year hiring thousands of analysts to review alerts and fill out reports by hand. The space has seen very little innovation, and customers complain about our most well-funded competitors weekly. It's not glamorous – until you realize you're building the intelligence layer that protects the entire financial system.
- Founder-level scope: You’ll work directly with the founders on everything that matters: sales, partnerships, product launches, operations, and growth strategy. You’ll touch every part of the business and see your work move the needle fast.
- Steep learning curve: You’ll learn how a hyper-technical company scales from 2 to 20 to 100 people, sitting at the intersection of AI, fintech, and enterprise operations.
- We have never lost a deal to a competitor: Yes you heard that right, we’ve won every RFP we’ve been in.
- Small team, big surface area: Our co-founders previously sold an AI company & have built ML systems that scaled to millions of users and closed deals with major banks. The rest of our team in SF includes PhDs, industry experts, and competitive coders.
- Zero startup bullshit: We’re not chasing hype or vanity metrics. We care about execution, quality, and customer trust – and we move fast.

## What You’ll Work on

You'll work directly with the CEO across every function — sales, GTM, marketing, product, operations, people, and strategy. Your job is to take what's on the founder's plate and either own it outright or drive it far enough that the final decision is the only thing left. The work changes week to week. You might be preparing materials for a bank deal, building out a hiring process, coordinating a product launch, running a partnership evaluation, or tightening internal operations. The constant is that you're always working on whatever has the highest leverage, and making sure what gets discussed actually gets done. Over time, you'll help build the foundation for the teams that come next: marketing, customer success, product, and beyond. You'll shape the roles, set the bar, and create the processes that let Sphinx scale without losing quality.

## What We Look For

- You solve problems end-to-end: You don't wait for instructions. You identify what matters, break it down, and drive it to completion seamlessly.
- You have a high bar for execution: You care about precision. Whether it’s a client presentation, event plan, product launch, your work stands out.
- You're relentlessly organized: Nothing slips. You track everything, follow up without being asked, and bring structure to chaos without slowing things down.
- You're a generalist who executes at a specialist level: You can write a compelling deck, build a financial model, run a hiring loop, and draft a customer email — and each one is good enough that it doesn't need to be redone.
- You like ambiguity: You’re comfortable when goals shift, priorities collide, and projects need to be delivered earlier. You make decisions fast and course-correct faster.
- You communicate with clarity: We move fast with minimal process. You need to articulate tradeoffs, communicate blockers, and make decisions with limited information.
- You’re impact-obsessed: You want to see your work move the company forward – every day.

## About the Interview

- Intro call (fit & motivation)
- Case Study
- Short paid in-person trial
- Offer 🎉

## Compensation & Benefits

- 🍽 Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office
- 🏥 Comprehensive healthcare
- 🏝️ Unlimited PTO (last one in Mexico)!
- 🗺️ Annual offsite
- ✈️ Paid relocation & one-month temporary housing
- 💻 Latest tech and as many monitors as you can fit on a desk

## About Sphinx

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sphinx provides AI compliance agents that automate KYC, AML, and KYB workflows for banks and fintechs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Alexandre Berkovic (CEO) and Chrisjan Wust (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: RegTech / Compliance Automation / Financial Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – compliance teams at banks, fintechs, and other financial institutions
- **Mission or purpose**: Replace manual compliance work with AI agents that make transparent, auditable decisions at software speed.

## Products & Services
- **AI Compliance Agents**: End-to-end automation of onboarding, transaction monitoring, and reporting. Agents log into existing systems, click, type, and resolve cases without APIs or engineering support. Covers ID verification, PEP/sanctions screening, adverse media checks, UBO identification, document intelligence, web/media analysis, dispute resolution, and regulatory reporting (SAR/UAR).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $500,000 total seed funding (raised December 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Fall 2024 batch), Rebel Fund. Primary YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne.
- **Growth Signals**: Team of 14 (as of mid-2025); claims 98.7% false positive detection, 7.7x faster case reviews, 10x faster disposition, and customers clearing six-month alert backlogs in two days. Actively hiring across multiple roles (Founding Sales, Product Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, etc.).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Transparent AI**: Full step-by-step reasoning and evidence trails, not a black box – SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.
- **Zero‑integration deployment**: Agents work inside existing systems by clicking and typing like a human analyst, so no API or engineering time is needed.
- **End‑to‑end coverage**: From onboarding to continuous monitoring to regulatory reporting, all within one platform.
- **Real‑time risk network**: Connects structured data with web, news, and on‑chain data to surface hidden links between counterparties.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand end‑to‑end agentic workflow for real‑time KYC decisions.
- Replace fragmented legacy compliance tools with a single, AI‑driven platform.
- Scale the agent’s reasoning capabilities across more data sources and jurisdictions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “High ownership, low ego, very little patience for bureaucracy.” A small, fast‑moving crew where everyone talks to users and ships code. No passive roles – you own problems from start to finish.
- **Engineering environment**: Building AI agents that handle live financial data and messy edge cases. Emphasis on shipping quickly and having real impact.
- **Location**: San Francisco‑based; remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely in‑person or hybrid given YC context.
- **Open roles** (as of mid‑2025): Founding Sales, Product Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Member of Technical Staff, Chief of Staff, GTM, Head of Content, Financial Crime Analyst, Compliance Solutions Architect.

## Sources
1. [sphinxlabs.ai](https://sphinxlabs.ai/)
2. [ycombinator.com/companies/sphinx](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sphinx)
3. [crunchbase.com/organization/sphinx-labs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sphinx-labs)
4. [linkedin.com/company/sphinx-hq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sphinx-hq)
5. [sphinxhq.com/careers](https://sphinxhq.com/careers)

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