Chief of Staff – Product, AI & Creative
Zee Labs is a fast-moving technology company building and scaling consumer Android products.
We are a team of approximately 50 people across video editing, scriptwriting, technology, design, HR and other functions. We work at the intersection of consumer apps, performance marketing, content, AI and emerging technology.
We move fast, experiment constantly and adopt new technologies aggressively.
We’re looking for an unusually capable Technical Chief of Staff to work directly with one of the co-founders.
This is not a traditional Chief of Staff role where your primary job is meetings, presentations and follow-ups.
You will be expected to think, build, solve, research, manage and execute.
One day you may be reviewing performance-marketing videos with our editors.
The next day you may be testing a new AI video model, debugging an automation, improving an app UI, building a prototype, researching a new technology, helping engineering solve a problem, interviewing a candidate or figuring out why an advertising creative isn't converting.
Sometimes the problem will come with almost no instructions.
Your job will be to figure it out.
We are looking for someone who can eventually operate as a force multiplier for the founder and take ownership of major day-to-day responsibilities when the founder is unavailable.
AI & Emerging Technology
- Stay deeply updated on AI models, agents, automation tools, creative AI, developer tools and emerging technology.
- Experiment with new tools before they become mainstream.
- Identify technologies that can improve speed, quality or cost across Zee Labs.
- Build AI workflows, automations, agents and internal systems.
- Help different teams solve prompting and AI-tool-related problems.
- Evaluate new AI products and decide what is actually useful versus hype.
- Implement successful tools across the organization.
Video, Creative & Performance MarketingA significant part of this role will involve working with our video and creative teams.
You should understand:
- Video editing and storytelling
- Hooks, pacing and retention
- Performance-marketing creatives
- Ad psychology
- Short-form content
- AI-generated video
- Creative research
- Visual quality
- Why a creative works—or doesn'tYou should be comfortable sitting with an editor, identifying exactly what's wrong with a video and helping make it significantly better.
Product, UI/UX & EngineeringYou don't need to spend your entire day writing production code, but technology should never intimidate you.
You should be capable of understanding and working with:
- UI/UX and product design
- Front-end development
- Back-end concepts and APIs
- Android/web products
- Databases
- Automation
- AI-assisted coding
- Prototyping
- Analytics
- Technical debuggingIf an idea needs a quick prototype, we'd rather you figure out how to build it than say, “That's not my department.”
Founder-Level Problem SolvingYou will receive problems such as:
“How can we automate this?”
“Why is this creative performing badly?”
“Can we build this internally?”
“Which AI tool is best for this?”
“Can we launch this experiment this week?”
“Why is this team blocked?”
“Can we prototype this idea?”
“Can we improve this workflow by 10x?”
Sometimes you will already know the answer.
Sometimes you won't.
What matters is that you can learn fast enough to find it.
Cross-Functional LeadershipWork across:
- Video Editors
- Scriptwriters
- Developers
- Designers
- HR
- Marketing
- Freelancers
- External vendorsYou should be able to move comfortably between technical, creative and operational conversations.
Your goal is not simply to coordinate teams.
Your goal is to unblock them and improve them.
Tools & SystemsOwn and improve the internal technology stack used by different teams.
This includes researching, testing, implementing and managing:
- AI tools
- Creative tools
- Video-generation platforms
- Productivity systems
- Automation tools
- Developer tools
- Internal workflows
- Prompt libraries
- SOPs
- Collaboration systemsIf a better tool appears tomorrow, you should probably know about it before we ask you.
Who We're Looking ForWe are looking for a high-agency polymath/generalist.
Someone who:
- Is exceptionally curious.
- Learns extremely quickly.
- Has strong technical instincts.
- Is genuinely obsessed with AI and technology.
- Understands creative work and storytelling.
- Can think like a product person.
- Can communicate with engineers.
- Can work with designers and editors.
- Can research unfamiliar subjects deeply.
- Can make decisions with incomplete information.
- Can work without constant supervision.
- Can convert ambiguous ideas into execution.
- Takes ownership instead of waiting for instructions.
- Has strong management and leadership instincts.
- Is comfortable challenging an idea when there is a better solution.
- Has excellent attention to detail.
- Can handle several completely different problems in the same day.We care much more about what you can do than what your degree says you can do.
LanguageHindi: Excellent / fluent
English: Excellent professional fluency, written and spoken
You should be able to communicate comfortably with both highly technical people and creative teams.
What We're NOT Looking ForThis role is probably not for you if:
- You need clearly defined tasks every day.
- You frequently say, “That's outside my role.”
- You only manage people but don't execute.
- You only execute but cannot lead.
- You dislike ambiguity.
- You wait for someone else to solve unfamiliar problems.
- You use AI occasionally rather than living and working with it.
- You stopped actively learning after becoming good at one skill.The Ideal PersonThink:
Technologist + Creative Thinker + AI Native + Problem Solver + Operator + Builder + Leader.
You might have started as an engineer, editor, designer, founder, product person, growth hacker or something completely different.
Your exact career path matters less than your ability to demonstrate exceptional curiosity, judgment and execution.
We are not looking for someone who knows everything.
We are looking for someone who can figure out almost anything.
Bengaluru — On-site
This is deliberately an in-office role because you will work closely with the founder and interact across multiple teams every day.