Interim Chief of Staff (part-time)

Our Mission

The way businesses buy stuff is completely broken. Whether it’s SaaS, hardware, or contractors, the average B2B purchase takes over 3 months, requires 50+ emails, and involves multiple different stakeholders (IT, Legal, InfoSec, Finance, etc.). No one likes the way it is and it’s slowing businesses down.

Omnea’s platform handles the entire purchasing process: giving employees an easy place to make requests (Intake), managing the necessary approvals for the purchase to be made (Approvals Engine), and automating all renewals management & supplier risk assessments. Omnea gives both buyers, and finance & procurement leaders critical visibility into how, when, and why money is being spent.

Given the current market's increased focus on capital efficiency, there has never been a more vital time for businesses to use Omnea and get control of their spend. This is why we're one of the fastest growing Series A B2B businesses in Europe, backed by tier-1 VCs like Accel, First Round, & Point Nine.

Welcome to Spend Control 2.0 — built for tougher times.

What we're looking for

We’re looking for an Interim Chief of Staff (part-time) to join Omnea’s Business Operations team.

You’ll support us in doing whatever it takes to drive Omnea’s success, partnering with our BizOps Director Jasmin, our CCO Abs and our Co-Founder & CEO Ben.

You’ll be joining Omnea at an incredibly exciting time, just as things are starting to take off! We're a Series A company having raised $25m from Accel, Point Nine, First Round, and 50+ renowned founders and industry experts. We’ve built an incredible & passionate team — every member was a top performer at their previous business - and our CEO, CCO & CFO went on a similar journey with Tessian, going from $0-30m ARR / $8-$500m valuation, and from pre-seed to Series C (Sequoia, Accel, etc.).

We've spent the past 18 months building & deploying our platform to many of the greatest tech companies out there (Spotify, Lookout, McAfee, Onfido, Typeform, Proofpoint, etc.), all whilst managing to stay lean & operate efficiently.

Now we’re ready to scale: come build with us!

What Can You Expect?

This role will be 25% planning & 75% execution and involves being personally accountable for some of these key initiatives:

Hiring & People Ops:

• Hiring — work with our BizOps Director & CCO to execute on our ambitious hiring plans: sourcing exceptional candidates across the UK and US, running outreach campaigns and managing interview processes ensuring strong engagement with candidates
• Building our employer brand — help us work out how to attract the best talent, whether that’s ideas around blog posts (and helping to write them!), or participating in relevant communities & events

Positioning:

• Research — support our CEO on a strategic positioning project: research a key market and its dynamics, conduct user interviews and consolidate all insights in a succinct format to enable product roadmap decision-making

Sales Ops:

• Sales Ops — build out our sales ops function: define and set up our monthly sales reporting, manage the GTM tech stack (Hubspot hygiene, identifying PG hacks), and create sales enablement collateral to make our team as successful as possible

& co-running any Special Projects with our CEO as they pop up!

We are happy to discuss the terms of this role and are flexible & open to the length of time spent working with us (at least 2-3 days per week for ideally 3 months but could be longer, and we may be able to find you to a full-time role in the business if it's a success).

About You

We don’t expect you to know exactly how to do absolutely everything when you join! We are looking for someone with the right attitude & skillset to take on this challenge…

• You’re entrepreneurial and want to be part of building a business. You want to rise faster than would be possible in any ‘normal’ career and you’re happy to roll up your sleeves and do whatever’s required. FYI, we've signed up to the Future Founder Promise.
• You’ve got a track record of exceptional performance, whether it’s in academia, work, sport, a sales team, or whatever else you’ve put your mind to.
• You’re an outstanding communicator; verbal, written, and when presenting. You’re exceptionally articulate, concise and clear in all forms of communication and have the ability to build rapport, influence people & drive change, whether it’s with a distinguished exec, technical expert or a junior operator.
• You’re intelligent and have the capacity to rapidly understand our product inside and out. You can simplify complex problems and translate them into next steps, product configuration or new feature requests.
• You’re outcomes-focused, and balance the ability to think strategically with a heavy bias to action, always focused on “so what’s the next step?”.
• You are proactive & crave accountability, proactively pushing initiatives forward and making the best use of the resources available to you.
• You’re able to ruthlessly prioritise, are highly organised and focused on outputs > inputs. You are efficient & autonomous and don’t compromise on quality.
• You’re ambitious, competitive, and care lots about your career. You are probably happiest when working really hard and solving challenging problems/winning deals. You know this requires dedication & some sacrifice but you think it’s worth it.
• You’re just a really good human. You’re empathetic and reliable. You build trust with people you work with and are highly collaborative. You have minimal ego, seek feedback to continuously hone your craft and try to bring out the best in everyone around you.

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we're best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

A few things to note:

• We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here
• We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here
• We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application.