Chief of Staff at Valinor in New York, NY

About Valinor

Valinor is building a new kind of credit institution — one with the rigor and judgment of a financial firm and the speed and ambition of a technology company. We originate, structure, and distribute institutional-grade credit products natively on blockchain-based rails, with AI-driven operations and in partnership with the broader digital asset ecosystem. We recently raised a $25M seed round and are a small, high-conviction team operating at the frontier of capital markets.

The Role

We are hiring a Chief of Staff to serve as the right hand to Valinor's founders, supporting key strategic and operational initiatives.

You will support high-priority initiatives across business development, new product identification, and strategic planning. You will help design and maintain the internal operating infrastructure that keeps a growing, multi-domain business coordinated. And you will handle the day-to-day execution that keeps the founders and team on track.

We are a small team with no silos. You will work closely with the investment team, the technology and product team, and the operations team, and with outside investors & partners. The role offers unusual breadth - across credit investing, digital assets, stablecoin infrastructure, and venture - and close proximity to how the founders think and operate.

What You'll Do

Strategic Initiatives (supporting the CEO)

• Help organize and execute on strategic initiatives across business development, fundraising, partnership development, and new product identification.
• Prepare materials and analysis to support strategic planning and decision-making.
• Take the lead on special projects as they emerge — recruiting pushes, vendor evaluations, market analyses, partnership diligence — and drive them to completion.

Internal Operating System (supporting the CBO)

• Help design and implement an agentic operating system across business development, underwriting, and distribution.
• Stand up and maintain the internal coordination infrastructure for a growing team: meeting rhythms, decision tracking, and project management.
• Identify processes that are broken, manual, or nonexistent — and ways to build or automate them.
• Research and experiment with AI-native workflows, applications, and best practices

Operational Execution

• Serve as connective tissue across internal teams, business lines, and external partners — ensuring information flows, decisions do not stall, and new product and partnership initiatives stay coordinated across functions.
• Help manage external communications across investors, counterparties, and strategic partners.
• Prepare agendas, materials, and follow-ups for board meetings, investor updates, and internal leadership discussions.
• Help the founders manage and prioritize their time and competing demands — including optimizing personal operating systems, with an eye toward automating routine coordination over time.

Why Valinor

• Early-stage and high momentum. $25M seed, active deal pipeline, partnerships with tier-1 counterparties, and a clear thesis on where credit markets are going.
• Cross-domain exposure. Valinor operates across credit, crypto, fintech, and venture capital. You will work with people across all of these worlds and develop fluency across them.
• Build the playbook. There is no inherited operating manual. You will help design digitally-native systems, processes, and rhythms that define how Valinor runs.
• Exceptional team. Small team with deep institutional credit and technology backgrounds. We move fast, think rigorously, and hold each other to a high bar.

Requirements

• Sharp and organized. 2–4 years of experience in investment banking, consulting, startup operations, or a prior chief of staff role. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver independently.
• Disciplined on follow-through. Tracks every open item and closes every loop. Nothing falls through the cracks.
• Strong written and verbal communicator. Able to draft an investor update, prepare a board memo, and deliver a clear internal briefing.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. Energized by undefined problems; able to walk into a new area of the business and help determine what needs to happen.
• Excited about designing high-performance systems. Genuinely interested in using AI tools to systematize operations and build repeatable, scalable workflows. Prior experience is not required — intellectual curiosity and willingness to build are.
• Low ego, high standards. Willing to do whatever needs doing and holds themselves to a high bar across all of it.

Nice to Have

• Background in finance or credit
• Experience building operational infrastructure from scratch: templates, dashboards, internal tools, lightweight automation
• Familiarity with crypto, DeFi, or digital assets
• Experience with agentic workflows

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Stock Option Plan