Jobs in Burlington, MA

About the role

We're hiring a Chief of Staff to be his right hand: owning project management across R&D and Technology, keeping the team aligned on priorities, and serving as the connective tissue between the science and the business. This is a dedicated role for the CTO's organization - distinct from our company-wide Chief of Staff function, which supports the CEO. This is a technical program management and organizational role, not a bench-science role. You'll need enough fluency in the chemistry to know how the pieces fit together - where a delay in one workstream blocks another, and where a business priority should change what R&D works on next.

What you'll bring

• 5–8 years in technical program management, R&D operations, or a chief-of-staff-style role supporting a technical or scientific executive/organization
• Track record of building the operating rhythm for complex, multi-workstream technical programs — not just tracking a spreadsheet, but creating the cadence and follow-through that didn’t exist before
• Enough technical/scientific fluency to follow how a chemistry-heavy R&D organization’s workstreams connect and depend on each other
• Skilled at translating between scientific/technical teams and commercial or executive stakeholders
• High trust, low ego, discreet — you’ll see the full picture of technical strategy before most of the company does
• Comfortable being the operational backbone for a technical leader deep in the science — you create rigor without becoming a bottleneck
• Experience in materials science, chemistry, battery, mining, or hardware/deep-tech environments strongly preferred
• PhD in chemistry, chemical engineering, or materials science
• Direct lab, process engineering, or R&D execution experience
• Startup or scale-up experience where you built process rather than inherited it

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