Keru
About Keru.ai
We're building the first visual, transparent, and interactive deep-research platform.
Our platform is industry-agnostic, but we're starting with finance. Financial services manages $26.5 trillion in assets, yet professionals spend 60-70% of their time manually gathering data from scattered sources. Keru.ai automatically ingests dozens of sources (SEC filings, expert calls, alternative data) and deploys AI agents that conduct deep research while creating interactive decision trees. The agents surface insights and connections that would take analysts hours to find. Analysts explore and modify findings in real-time, then export deliverables like presentations and reports, all with full audit trails showing exactly how conclusions were reached.
Keru.ai was founded by two Palantir veterans with 20 years of combined experience building core parts of Palantir's Gotham and Foundry Platform. Our founders created Palantir Quiver, the analytics engine behind $100M+ enterprise deals with BP and Airbus, architected core compute and data systems, led major Department of Defense projects, and served as Head of Business Engineering at Citadel.
We're backed by founders of OpenAI, Facebook AI, MotherDuck, DBT, and Outerbounds.
The Role As Chief of Staff at Keru.ai, you'll be the operational force multiplier for our founding team. You'll work directly with our CEO to drive strategic initiatives, ensure cross-functional alignment, and build the operational foundation that allows a high-growth AI company to scale without losing speed.
This role embodies a core startup truth: execution is everything. You'll be in the room where decisions are made, then own making them happen. From investor communications to strategic planning to unblocking critical projects, you'll touch every part of the business and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Within your first 90 days, you will:
Develop a deep understanding of Keru.ai's business, product, customers, and competitive landscape
Own the operating cadence: team meetings, planning cycles, and internal communications
Drive 2-3 strategic initiatives from scoping through execution
Build relationships across the organization and become a trusted partner to leadership
This is the right role if you want a front-row seat to building a category-defining company, with the responsibility and autonomy to shape how we operate as we scale.
What You'll Do
Extend the CEO's leverage:
Serve as a trusted partner to the CEO, taking ownership of strategic priorities and ensuring leadership bandwidth is focused on the highest-impact work.
Drive strategic initiatives:
Own cross-functional projects from inception to completion, whether that's entering a new market segment, optimizing our go-to-market motion, or building a new internal process.
Build operational excellence:
Design and run the operating rhythms that keep a fast-moving team aligned: planning cycles, OKRs, leadership meetings, all-hands, and board prep.
Be the connective tissue:
Ensure information flows across teams, dependencies are tracked, and nothing slips. Identify misalignment early and resolve it.
Support fundraising and investor relations:
Prepare board materials, manage investor updates, and support fundraising processes as needed.
Solve ambiguous problems:
Take on the critical work that doesn't fit neatly into any one function. These are the undefined but essential projects that emerge at a scaling startup.
Shape company culture:
Help build the rituals, communications, and practices that define how Keru.ai works as we grow.
What We're Looking For Must-haves
4-7 years of experience
in high-performance environments: management consulting, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or operating roles at high-growth startups.
Exceptional project management:
Track record of driving complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion in fast-paced settings.
Strong analytical skills:
Comfort with ambiguous problems, ability to structure thinking, and fluency with data-driven decision making.
Outstanding communication:
Excellent written and verbal skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into clarity for any audience.
High judgment and discretion:
Experience handling sensitive information and navigating organizational dynamics with maturity.
Bias for action:
You default to doing, not waiting. You're resourceful and relentless about getting things done.
NYC-based:
This role requires in-person presence at our NYC headquarters.
Nice-to-haves
Startup experience:
Previous role at an early-stage or high-growth company.
Financial services exposure:
Familiarity with investment management, research workflows, or fintech.
Technical fluency:
Enough technical context to engage credibly with engineering and product teams.
People operations experience:
Background in recruiting, HR, or organizational design.
Don't check every box? Apply anyway. We prioritize intellectual horsepower, ownership mentality, adaptability, and the drive to build something exceptional.
Growth Path The Chief of Staff role at Keru.ai is a launching pad. Expect:
Direct exposure to company-building decisions across strategy, product, GTM, and operations
Close mentorship from founders who've built and scaled enterprise companies
A path toward senior leadership, whether that's leading a function, moving into a GM role, or continuing to scale with the CEO
At Keru.ai, we invest in people who want to build. This role is for someone ready to accelerate their trajectory.
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 401k, insurance for employees and dependents
Automatic coverage for basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
Daily lunch in office
Development environment budget
Unlimited PTO policy
Learning budget to attend any conference, course, or program that accelerates your growth
Our Operating Principles
Forward-Deployed with Product DNA:
We own customer outcomes, while building a product company. We don't win if our customers don't win. That means embedding, iterating, and deploying where our customers are.
Extreme Ownership:
We have a big vision and everyone owns it. If you notice a problem, you own it - diagnose, coordinate, and close the loop. Authority comes from initiative, not job titles, and once you step up, you're accountable for the outcome.
Production-First Engineering:
We design for customers' most critical workloads from day one. The platform runs on durable execution paths, blue/green deploys, automated rollbacks, and a continuous-delivery pipeline with end-to-end observability, so every change lands safely and stays resilient under real-world load.
Trust as the Default:
We operate on the simple premise that people do their best work when confidence is mutual and earned in the open. That means we show our work, keep our promises, and flag risks before they bite. Automated tests, uptime dashboards, and clear communication back our competence; predictable delivery proves our consistency; candid retros and honest trade-offs reveal our character. Put together, trust isn't an aspiration, it's the baseline everyone can count on.
Keep Raising the Bar:
We block time for training, code-health sprints, and deep-dive tech talks, because a sharper team and a cleaner stack pay compounding dividends. Continuous learning isn't a perk, it's part of the job.
Keru.ai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
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Our platform is industry-agnostic, but we're starting with finance. Financial services manages $26.5 trillion in assets, yet professionals spend 60-70% of their time manually gathering data from scattered sources. Keru.ai automatically ingests dozens of sources (SEC filings, expert calls, alternative data) and deploys AI agents that conduct deep research while creating interactive decision trees. The agents surface insights and connections that would take analysts hours to find. Analysts explore and modify findings in real-time, then export deliverables like presentations and reports, all with full audit trails showing exactly how conclusions were reached.
Keru.ai was founded by two Palantir veterans with 20 years of combined experience building core parts of Palantir's Gotham and Foundry Platform. Our founders created Palantir Quiver, the analytics engine behind $100M+ enterprise deals with BP and Airbus, architected core compute and data systems, led major Department of Defense projects, and served as Head of Business Engineering at Citadel.
We're backed by founders of OpenAI, Facebook AI, MotherDuck, DBT, and Outerbounds.
The Role As Chief of Staff at Keru.ai, you'll be the operational force multiplier for our founding team. You'll work directly with our CEO to drive strategic initiatives, ensure cross-functional alignment, and build the operational foundation that allows a high-growth AI company to scale without losing speed.
This role embodies a core startup truth: execution is everything. You'll be in the room where decisions are made, then own making them happen. From investor communications to strategic planning to unblocking critical projects, you'll touch every part of the business and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Within your first 90 days, you will:
Develop a deep understanding of Keru.ai's business, product, customers, and competitive landscape
Own the operating cadence: team meetings, planning cycles, and internal communications
Drive 2-3 strategic initiatives from scoping through execution
Build relationships across the organization and become a trusted partner to leadership
This is the right role if you want a front-row seat to building a category-defining company, with the responsibility and autonomy to shape how we operate as we scale.
What You'll Do
Extend the CEO's leverage:
Serve as a trusted partner to the CEO, taking ownership of strategic priorities and ensuring leadership bandwidth is focused on the highest-impact work.
Drive strategic initiatives:
Own cross-functional projects from inception to completion, whether that's entering a new market segment, optimizing our go-to-market motion, or building a new internal process.
Build operational excellence:
Design and run the operating rhythms that keep a fast-moving team aligned: planning cycles, OKRs, leadership meetings, all-hands, and board prep.
Be the connective tissue:
Ensure information flows across teams, dependencies are tracked, and nothing slips. Identify misalignment early and resolve it.
Support fundraising and investor relations:
Prepare board materials, manage investor updates, and support fundraising processes as needed.
Solve ambiguous problems:
Take on the critical work that doesn't fit neatly into any one function. These are the undefined but essential projects that emerge at a scaling startup.
Shape company culture:
Help build the rituals, communications, and practices that define how Keru.ai works as we grow.
What We're Looking For Must-haves
4-7 years of experience
in high-performance environments: management consulting, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or operating roles at high-growth startups.
Exceptional project management:
Track record of driving complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion in fast-paced settings.
Strong analytical skills:
Comfort with ambiguous problems, ability to structure thinking, and fluency with data-driven decision making.
Outstanding communication:
Excellent written and verbal skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into clarity for any audience.
High judgment and discretion:
Experience handling sensitive information and navigating organizational dynamics with maturity.
Bias for action:
You default to doing, not waiting. You're resourceful and relentless about getting things done.
NYC-based:
This role requires in-person presence at our NYC headquarters.
Nice-to-haves
Startup experience:
Previous role at an early-stage or high-growth company.
Financial services exposure:
Familiarity with investment management, research workflows, or fintech.
Technical fluency:
Enough technical context to engage credibly with engineering and product teams.
People operations experience:
Background in recruiting, HR, or organizational design.
Don't check every box? Apply anyway. We prioritize intellectual horsepower, ownership mentality, adaptability, and the drive to build something exceptional.
Growth Path The Chief of Staff role at Keru.ai is a launching pad. Expect:
Direct exposure to company-building decisions across strategy, product, GTM, and operations
Close mentorship from founders who've built and scaled enterprise companies
A path toward senior leadership, whether that's leading a function, moving into a GM role, or continuing to scale with the CEO
At Keru.ai, we invest in people who want to build. This role is for someone ready to accelerate their trajectory.
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 401k, insurance for employees and dependents
Automatic coverage for basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
Daily lunch in office
Development environment budget
Unlimited PTO policy
Learning budget to attend any conference, course, or program that accelerates your growth
Our Operating Principles
Forward-Deployed with Product DNA:
We own customer outcomes, while building a product company. We don't win if our customers don't win. That means embedding, iterating, and deploying where our customers are.
Extreme Ownership:
We have a big vision and everyone owns it. If you notice a problem, you own it - diagnose, coordinate, and close the loop. Authority comes from initiative, not job titles, and once you step up, you're accountable for the outcome.
Production-First Engineering:
We design for customers' most critical workloads from day one. The platform runs on durable execution paths, blue/green deploys, automated rollbacks, and a continuous-delivery pipeline with end-to-end observability, so every change lands safely and stays resilient under real-world load.
Trust as the Default:
We operate on the simple premise that people do their best work when confidence is mutual and earned in the open. That means we show our work, keep our promises, and flag risks before they bite. Automated tests, uptime dashboards, and clear communication back our competence; predictable delivery proves our consistency; candid retros and honest trade-offs reveal our character. Put together, trust isn't an aspiration, it's the baseline everyone can count on.
Keep Raising the Bar:
We block time for training, code-health sprints, and deep-dive tech talks, because a sharper team and a cleaner stack pay compounding dividends. Continuous learning isn't a perk, it's part of the job.
Keru.ai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
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