Chief of Staff - Axiom

About Us

Axiom is using zero-knowledge proofs to enable new types of verifiable and private software applications, starting with crypto and fintech. We are a small but incredibly strong team backed by the best investors in crypto. We’re looking for exceptional people who are excited to work on challenging and impactful problems in a fast-paced environment. Our office is in NYC and working in person in NY is our strong preference, but we're open to remote candidates as well.

We recently released OpenVM, a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility. OpenVM allows developers to verify the correct execution of arbitrary computer programs in a flexible and performant way. We are building ZK-enabled products using OpenVM and supporting teams building on OpenVM.

The Role

We are hiring for a Chief of Staff to join the early team at Axiom. We’re looking for a scrappy generalist who can work in‑person with us in New York City and partner directly with the CEO. Your work will stretch across go-to-market, business development, and internal operations to drive excellence across the company.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Enabling strategic customer relationships, interfacing directly with founders and functional leads, and guiding pilots to paid contracts.

• Building GTM collateral, including sales target lists, sales decks, and product announcements for our blog and Twitter account.

• Maintaining finances, coordinating monthly reporting with external accountants, and streamlining invoicing and payments using tools like Ramp.

• Overseeing general office management to keep our NYC office productive and welcoming.

• Wearing multiple hats for initiatives across the company. This is a generalist role on a small team, and we expect everyone to pitch in across areas.

This is a rare opportunity to have a front row seat in the field of zero-knowledge cryptography, one of the most exciting areas of frontier technology today. If you thrive in an ambiguous, fast‑moving environment and want to build a category‑defining frontier tech company, we’d love to chat.

Who you are

• You are a first-principles business thinker able to think critically and make decisions in a new domain in the presence of ambiguity.

• You are extremely detail oriented, have high operating standards, and pride yourself on delivering defect-free work.

• You communicate clearly and are able to efficiently cover essential information in both written and verbal communications.

• You know how to drive projects to completion while prioritizing and managing both internal and external stakeholders.

• No experience in crypto or ZK is necessary, but a passion to work in a frontier tech domain is required.

Our Team

Our founders Yi Sun and Jonathan Wang met at Harvard and have been working on ZK since 2021. Before Axiom, Yi was a professor at UChicago Statistics, early advisor to several unicorn startups, and founding team member of an HFT startup from inception to profitable trading. Jonathan published number theory research in top journals during his career at MIT, UChicago, and the Institute of Advanced Study.

Our world-class engineering team includes alums of Applied Intuition, Coinbase, Color, Neon, Google, and Perplexity as well as winners of international olympiads in computing, math, and physics. We look forward to working with you!