Chief of Staff Associate

About The Role

As Chief of Staff Associate, you'll work closely with our Chief of Staff and have high exposure to our COO and CEO, helping to keep Hyperlayer's most important corporate projects moving. You'll support everything from funding rounds and setting up our entities abroad to corporate governance, investor relations, legal operations and audits, while bringing structure and efficiency to how the business runs day to day. It's a varied, high-visibility role that offers a rare view of how a scaling fintech is run from the top, and as Hyperlayer grows there's real scope to take on greater ownership of projects and help shape how the Chief of Staff function evolves.

This is an office-based role, with regular in-person collaboration in the office.

What You'll Do

• Strategic corporate projects: Support the Chief of Staff on major strategic initiatives, including funding rounds and the establishment of our US entity, coordinating workstreams, tracking progress and keeping stakeholders aligned.

• Corporate governance: Help manage board and shareholder processes, including preparing board materials, maintaining statutory records and registers, and making sure governance requirements are met on time.

• Investor relations support: Act as a point of contact for investor data requests and administrative requirements, preparing accurate information and keeping our data room organised and up to date.

• Legal operations: Bring dedicated focus and structure to legal admin: managing the contract lifecycle, maintaining a central contract repository, tracking key dates and renewals, and coordinating with in-house counsel.

• Audits and client due diligence: Coordinate the company's response to audits and client due diligence requests, gathering documentation from across the business, managing timelines and making sure responses are accurate and complete. This work is periodic but substantial, so you'll be comfortable reprioritising when a large request lands.

• Internal communications: Plan and draft internal communications, such as company updates, all-hands materials and leadership announcements, helping keep everyone informed and connected.

• Operational efficiency: Identify opportunities to improve how we work, then design and roll out better processes, tools and documentation.

• Ad hoc projects: Take on a variety of projects as business needs evolve, working with teams across the company.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in a role such as business operations, company secretarial, legal operations, consulting, or a similar generalist position.

• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage several workstreams at once and prioritize when needed.

• Clear, confident written communication, with the ability to prepare documents for audiences ranging from colleagues to investors.

• Close attention to detail and a careful, discreet approach to handling confidential information.

• Comfort working with people at all levels, including our CEO and COO, external advisers and investors.
• Experience supporting a funding round, investor reporting or a data room process.

• Familiarity with UK corporate governance and company secretarial requirements, such as Companies House filings.

• Exposure to audits, client due diligence or compliance questionnaires, particularly in fintech or financial services.

• Experience with international entity set-up.

• Experience using legal operations or contract management tools.

Using AI at Hyperlayer

Hyperlayer is hyper-focused on making the most of AI across every workstream, and this role is no exception. As Chief of Staff Associate, you'll be expected to use AI tools to work smarter and identify opportunities where AI could streamline our operational processes and help put those improvements into practice. We expect the person in this role to set the right example for the rest of the org on how AI can enhance and improve day-to-day work.

Working at Hyperlayer

We value our team and we are proud to offer some great benefits:

• A performance-based employee bonus scheme.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a day off on your birthday, and an additional day per year of tenure to a maximum of 30.

• Critical illness and life insurance cover.

• AXA PPP Health Insurance, including gym offers.

• Cycle-to-work scheme.

• Referral bonus scheme.

• Workplace nursery scheme.

How to apply

Please click on the 'Apply' button, you will be asked to provide an updated CV and answer some questions. For further information about this vacancy, you can contact us at people@hyperlayer.com.

Right to work

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role unless stated otherwise.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion

Hyperlayer's mission is to make a positive impact on people's lives, making it easier for everyone to manage their money.

Hyperlayer's commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion is a key part of this; it helps us better serve our customers, employees, and business partners from every background.

We are constantly learning and striving to do better, and we expect all staff to actively take part in this process.

Data Privacy

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