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# Chief of Staff at Viam

- **Company:** Viam
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/viamrobotics/jobs/6180244004

## Job description

## About Viam

Founded by Eliot Horowitz, co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB, Viam is a novel robotics engineering platform that lets you configure, control, and manage robots intuitively and quickly. We’re inspiring a generation of engineers to solve complicated automation problems with our uniquely powerful suite of software tools.

We’re a ~100-person company headquartered in New York City.

Chief of Staff

We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to work closely with our founder and CEO as Viam grows.

This role sits at the center of how the company operates. You’ll have visibility into the decisions and information that shape Viam, including company strategy, planning, customers, investors, the board, and new business opportunities.

You’ll work across teams and take on important problems that do not fit neatly within one function. The role comes with a high level of access and trust, and we’re looking for someone who is comfortable getting into the details, challenging assumptions, and owning work without an obvious playbook or existing owner.

This is not an Executive Assistant role. Calendar, travel, and inbox management sit elsewhere.

## What you'll do

- Take on high-priority questions and projects for the CEO, including research, analysis, recommendations, and execution.
- Own projects that span teams or don’t yet have a natural home, such as new markets, partnerships, pricing, or other strategic initiatives.
- Run Viam’s company planning and leadership rhythm, including planning cycles, leadership meetings, business reviews, and offsites.
- Keep a clear view of the company’s most important initiatives — who owns them, where they stand, and what’s getting in the way.
- Work across engineering, product, GTM, and finance to surface misalignment and help resolve issues that cut across functions.
- Support board and investor work, including company metrics, board materials, investor updates, and financing processes when they arise.
- Turn insights from customer, partner, and market conversations into useful input for the broader company.
- Write strategy memos, company communications, and other materials that help people understand important decisions and context.

## What we're looking for

- 6+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, management consulting, startup strategy/BizOps, or a similarly rigorous environment.
- Strong analytical and financial skills. You’re comfortable building a model, digging into company metrics, and figuring out what the numbers actually mean.
- Technical fluency. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you should be able to follow technical conversations, ask good questions, and work credibly with engineering and product teams.
- Excellent writing and the ability to make complicated ideas clear.
- Experience taking ambiguous projects from an open question to a concrete outcome.
- Strong judgment about what matters and where to spend time.
- High ownership and low ego.
- Comfort challenging senior leaders and forming your own perspective.
- Fluency with modern AI tools and a habit of using them to make your work better and faster.

The salary for this role is between $180,000 - 220,000 /year. Full-time Benefits

Viam’s base salary range for this role is posted above. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.

- 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans, commuter benefits
- 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
- Free lunch every day that you’re in the office
- One Medical Membership
- Citi Bike memberships
- Monthly wellness stipend to be used for a variety of fitness-related items like gym memberships, fitness classes, fitness equipment, and more
- Paid parental leave
- Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
- Yearly Learning and Development Budget for your own personal learning goals

Values:

- Vision Driven
- Collaborate Openly
- Act Decisively
- Succeed Through Diversity
- Hold Ourselves Accountable
- Lead with Curiosity

To all recruitment agencies:

Viam does not accept unsolicited agency resumes or calls from recruitment agencies or search firms. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Viam employees. Viam is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

## About Viam

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Viam provides a software platform for building, deploying, and managing robotics applications, enabling engineers to develop for the physical world using modern software practices.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture‑backed; multiple funding rounds including Series B/C)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Eliot Horowitz (co‑founder and former CTO of MongoDB)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Robotics, manufacturing, marine, climate tech, logistics, entertainment, food & beverage
- **Target customers**: B2B – engineers, startups, and enterprises building and managing robotics fleets
- **Mission**: “Make the physical world programmable” – a single platform that abstracts hardware complexity so any engineer can build and scale robotics applications.

## Products & Services
- **Viam Platform**: A software platform combining multi‑language SDKs (Python, Go, TypeScript), cloud‑based fleet management, OTA updates, built‑in motion/vision services, and a Registry for drivers and ML models. Engineers write application logic from day one without assembling a traditional robotics stack. The same code scales from prototype to global fleet without rewrites.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not disclosed; company has raised at least Series B/Series C per LinkedIn signals.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not specified in public sources; board includes venture investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Growing team across the U.S. and Europe, active hiring (7 open positions as of mid‑2025), dedicated robotics lab in NYC, and expanding into verticals like manufacturing, marine, and climate tech.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open architecture**: Hardware abstracted into simple, consistent APIs – engineers write in familiar languages without vendor lock‑in.
- **End‑to‑end lifecycle**: Single platform covering development, deployment, monitoring, and over‑the‑air updates, eliminating stack resets when scaling.
- **Multi‑language SDKs**: Python, Go, and TypeScript support lowers the barrier for software engineers entering robotics.
- **Proven founding team**: CEO Eliot Horowitz previously co‑founded MongoDB, demonstrating ability to build a widely adopted developer platform.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the platform’s coverage across industries (manufacturing, logistics, climate, marine, entertainment).
- Continue simplifying the robotics development lifecycle so that “the physical world is finally programmable.”
- Grow the engineering organization, particularly in data platform and fleet management roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Vision Driven, Lead With Curiosity, Collaborate Openly, Act Decisively, Succeed Through Diversity, and Hold Ourselves Accountable. Strong emphasis on learning, honest feedback, and building for diverse perspectives.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – three days per week in the NYC office (near Lincoln Center), two days remote. Teams also distributed across the U.S., U.K., and Italy.
- **Benefits**: Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and children; free One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc; fertility benefits (egg freezing, IVF); 20 weeks paid parental leave; 401(k) with traditional/Roth options; generous vacation and sick leave; daily lunch, snacks, and coffee in office; fitness reimbursement; Citi Bike membership; shower room, bike storage, and mother’s room.
- **Growth**: Annual budget for courses, conferences, and professional memberships; tuition support for degrees; “Lead with Curiosity” professional development program; dedicated build days for engineers to hack on real robots.

## Sources
1. [viam.com/careers](https://www.viam.com/careers) – Benefits, culture, and work environment details
2. [viam.com/about](https://www.viam.com/about) – Founders, history, mission, and team overview
3. [viam.com](https://www.viam.com/) – Platform description and value proposition
4. [Greenhouse job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/viamrobotics) – Current open positions and company description
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/viaminc) – Funding signals (Series B/C), headcount, and recent activity

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