Chief Of Staff
Aim high, go beyond!
At Open Cosmos, we’re on a mission to make space accessible for everyone. We design, build and operate satellites that help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges — from climate monitoring to connectivity.
We’re scaling rapidly across Europe and beyond, and with that growth comes increasing complexity, opportunity, and ambition. To support this next chapter, we’re hiring a Chief of Staff to the CEO — a high-trust, high-impact role at the very centre of the organisation.
This is not a traditional support role.
As Chief of Staff, you’ll be the CEO’s strategic execution partner and operational extension, ensuring that Open Cosmos’ priorities are translated into action — and delivered with pace, clarity and discipline.
For the first 6 months, you’ll shadow the CEO closely, building deep context, understanding decision-making at the highest level, and helping to drive the business forward.
What You’ll be doing
Acting as the CEO’s trusted deputy
Representing the CEO in selected internal and external forums
Driving follow-through on key decisions and commitments
Protecting the CEO’s focus on the highest-impact priorities
Translating company strategy into clear, actionable priorities
Driving the most critical cross-functional initiatives
Identifying risks, misalignment and execution bottlenecks — and resolve them
Lead the CEO Office and partner closely with the CEO’s EA
Establishing a strong operating rhythm across executive forums, board cycles and planning cadences
Aligning strategy, communications and CEO-led initiatives into one coherent model
Bringing together complex reporting into clear executive and board-level insight
What You’ll Bring
Strong understanding of how strategy translates into execution in a complex, scaling international business
Exceptional ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguity
Excellent analytical capability and experience synthesising business performance data
Strong commercial judgement and organisational awareness
Confident engaging and influencing senior leaders and board-level stakeholders
Fluent English and Spanish; additional languages are a plus
Unquestionable integrity and discretion
Comfortable operating at pace and intensity and travelling regularly
For this role you can be based in any of our locations
To apply, you must have the legal right to work in your chosen location.
Please submit your application and CV in English
Why Open Cosmos?
Work at the cutting edge of space technology with customers around the globe.
A mission-driven company making space accessible to help solve real-world challenges.
A diverse, ambitious, and supportive team.
- Division
- Exec
- Department
- EXEC
- Locations
- Harwell, UK, Athens, Greece, Barcelona, Spain, Porto, Portugal, Tenerife
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Open Cosmos
Open Cosmos is dedicated to solving customer problems with insights from space. Whether this is monitoring agricultural yields, assessing the damage of oil spills or providing navigation solutions, we believe that data from satellites is the most effective and sustainable way of achieving this.
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