Chief of Staff to The Founder

**Deep inside you are looking for a new adventure with**
- ** Ambition**: Smart Team mates driven to create an iconic international brand
- ** Impact**: You strive for making a real difference in the company growth, and not be a number in a big organization
- ** Mission**: Knowing your greatness left a mark in people lives

With Paradox we want to empower **high-achievers** at scale, by leveraging cutting edge technologies like **AI**, and crafting user experiences with **outstanding aesthetics.**

**This is why we are looking for a Chief of Staff to make Paradox a category-defining global brand.**:
With you on his side, our CEO, David will be focused on : vision, strategy, organic content, strategic partnerships, and shaping the future of our products. The external side of Paradox.
- Your role?_
- The operator behind the founder. The force that turns ideas into execution.
- You make sure the machine runs, scales, and stays aligned — without needing him in every room.
- You harmoniously integrate the major functions
- You are the glue that holds the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy together.

This duo will work if you recognize yourself
- ** Strongly analytical**, and at ease to challenge or disagree with our CEO in his thinking with strong reasoning and Data
- ** Obsessed with execution, not just ideas**: Relentless about holding people (and yourself) accountable
- ** Hands-on**and highly** resilient under pressure**
- Really Really** Hard worker**
- Comfortable disagreeing with your CEO and **being proven wrong**
- Inspired by the intersection of** AI, education,**and** personal development**

This is a full time position from our beautiful offices in Dubai, Paris or Lisbon or in remote anywhere in the world.

**Important: Being present at least 2,5 months in Dubaï per year is required.**

**YOUR MISSION**:
David Laroche (CEO) has built a personal brand followed by 2+ millions, interviewed icons (Tony Parker, Mike Horn, Branson, Gad Elmaleh), and sparked transformation for thousands.

Paradox was born with the intent to build something beyond himself, and that can live throughout centuries.

The vision is to make Paradox, an **iconic Brand**, and a symbol of Greatness and independent thinking.

For us, being Iconic is to innovate at the intersection of Psychology x Creativity x Technology.

We want to compete with companies like Mindvalley (150M ARR) that deliver **woo-woo**Personal Development.

We position Paradox for high achievers with grounded, science backed mental models, AI-powered and a bolder brand. A strong positioning claiming our disdain for mediocrity.

Going from a successful personal brand, to an international tech driven iconic brand, is far from easy. It will be messy, chaotic, it requires to iterate on MVPs, innovate in tech, shake social media with outstanding creative work while having a limited budget (we're bootstrap)

So **your main mission is to challenge ideas, filter the best ones, craft strategies, build a team of talents**, and **create an execution machine.**

Our sources of inspiration are Apple, Nike, Spotify, Disney for their obsession of excelling, having a worldwide impact and not just selling products but **crafting experiences.**

You will be playing a pivotal role in making Paradox play at that level and becoming an iconic brand.

**Your 6 main missions**

**1. Drive Execution & Focus**:exceeding planned P&L targets**:

- Lead Yearly/Quarterly/Monthly planning and OKRs
- Turning vision into OKRs, roadmaps, systems
- Integrate all major functions of the company
- Play devil's advocate with the CEO and determine when to stay focused

**2. Create a culture of performance, a tempo of urgency, execution & continuous improvement**:

- Set a high tempo and hold people accountable
- Build dashboards, metrics, rituals
- Address underperformance fast and cleanly

**3. SCALE: Make the company Scalable and turn it into a growth machine**(obsession with AI possibilities)**:

- Design and improve systems, workflows, tech stack
- Lead automation, tooling, and AI agent deployment
- Solve root problems that slow down execution

**4. Talent Density**:

- Source, Recruit, Onboard yourself people who stand out
- Raise the hiring bar across the company
- Track company-wide sourcing KPIs

**5. Make Paradox cost efficient**:

- Forecast requirements and prepare annual budget
- Cut waste, challenge spending, increase margin
- Oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing

**6. Dig the Data, find patterns, and make changes happen from them**:

- Dig into product, marketing, sales, and ops data
- Find patterns and turn them into actions

**THE IDEAL CANDIDATE***:
**-**:
**Experience**:

- ** 3 years** in Tier-1 consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, etc.) + **2-3 years in a start-up**

**Or Former founder** (even failed) who built team + ops + product + sales — and _learned fast_

**Or High-performing Chief of Staff**in a tier-1 growing startup

**Traits**:

- ** Driven &