EWOR

Chief of Staff

Full-time in Berlin, hybrid or remote.

About EWOR

EWOR is funded and run full-time by nine entrepreneurs who have founded and exited companies worth $100M to $10B, alongside a small team of superstars. We fund 35 outlier founders per year, who currently break all global records in their space: a $10M average raise — for comparison, YC founders average $1.5M — with the top quartile raising at $100M+ valuations and the top 17% at $250M+ valuations during the Fellowship.

EWOR operates an evergreen holding structure, similar to Berkshire Hathaway, which attracts, selects, and amplifies the best founders. Our goal is to build the world’s biggest founder brand and attraction engine, become the best at selecting outlier founders, and build the world’s most useful founder infrastructure. So far, we offer unique access to compute (up to $10M), talent (an average of two hires per Fellow), distribution (an average of $200k additional ARR through EWOR), and fundraising (an average $10M raise).

The gist

This role serves as the connective tissue among the CEO, his founder’s associates, and the rest of the organisation. Your goal is to bring things to a close at maximum speed while maintaining maximum quality. You work with two EAs who ensure maximum speed, which shifts your role towards quality assurance, structure, and automation.

What you’ll do

Run Daniel’s CEO office. Your main job is to act as his right hand across two EAs and one PA. You set priorities across all three, function as their escalation point, and own the outcome — finishing the task when someone doesn’t deliver.
Orchestrate EWOR’s stakeholder ecosystem through Daniel. You write high-stakes emails in Daniel’s voice to unicorn founders, billionaires, LPs, and Fellows — ideally without any need for edits. Often these emails need to be well researched and contextualised, which is also your job.
Coach, develop, and automate the CEO office. Your job is not just to lead the EAs and PA, but to identify anything that can be automated — which is almost everything in an age of AI. This frees up more time, which further drives the effectiveness of the CEO office. Whenever delivery is poor, you decide with Daniel whom to coach and whom to replace.
System development. You spot automation opportunities that scale across the entire organisation and turn them into processes the rest of the team can implement, moving them away from the CEO’s office.
System protection. You hold Daniel accountable for inbox zero, his daily checklist, and his weekly and monthly review rhythms. You guard the two no-call days and the ~6h deep-work blocks like Daniel protects EWOR’s runway — including deleting calls that shouldn’t exist, while still second-guessing Daniel’s decisions.
Bridge strategy and execution. Next to the COO, you turn any decision into a clear, structured, atomic implementation plan with immediate impact — if possible, without Daniel’s doing or involvement.
Singletask while capturing multiple channels. Save Daniel’s attention by structuring, filtering, and preparing the whirlwind of actions, decisions, updates, and discussions he is involved in: fellowship operations, hiring, partnerships, fundraising, coaching, content production, thought leadership, and more.
Special projects. Fundraising operations, events end to end, selection support, due-diligence memos — whatever currently costs Daniel time that doesn’t require his specific judgement or relationships. You take on the ad hoc, cross-functional projects that don’t have a natural home within the leadership team.

What you won’t do

You are not a shadow COO. You do not manage the leadership team. You work with Daniel Dippold — much more than with anyone else — and you orchestrate his CEO office.
You are not an assistant. You work with Daniel’s assistants, make sure the big picture makes sense, and are primarily concerned with the intellectual exercise of optimising his resources: time, attention, focus, health, energy, support, and confidence.

Who you are

Extraordinary judgement. Exceptional written communication and taste: you know what to draft, what to decide, what to escalate, and — hardest — what not to do. Your drafts to the most senior people we know go out nearly untouched.
Extraordinary intellect and systems-building. You’ve shown you can turn chaos into systems, think at the right level of abstraction, and build automation and processes at that level to enable scale.
Extraordinary work ethic and ownership. You’ve demonstrated that you can work as hard as Daniel does. You care about personal development and pushing yourself to the next level. You own results, celebrate transparency, and ensure the data generated by your delivery speaks undeniably to your abilities.
Flawless written English. Ideally German too.
Discretion and integrity. You’ll be close to sensitive conversations.
Relevant experience. Preferably you’ve worked in a Chief of Staff, operations, or similar generalist role at a breakout company — ideally a startup — or in a heavy-execution environment such as IB or MBB.

Nice to haves

Humor
Detail orientation, including experience with spreadsheets
Design skills: Claude design, Google Slides, Canva
Experience with management and leadership
Technical skills, primarily coding
Knowledge and understanding of the entrepreneurship ecosystem
Legal literacy

What you’ll get

Proximity. To Daniel, the Partners, and the COO — people who have built companies worth €10B+ — and a front-row seat to how a lean, high-calibre team operates.
A network you’d otherwise spend a decade building. Founders, funds, and family offices, met through the work you do every day.

A note from Daniel on this role

This is an experiment. I am building my CEO office for the first time. I have a clear idea of what I want, but my assumptions might prove wrong. If you do this with me, I want to iterate and think through this with you. We may discover flaws in the system and need to constantly optimise it. As I am writing this, I find it somewhat ridiculous to have a support system just for me consisting of four people. You will have to work with me through this scepticism. It comes from my past. I have developed pride in getting to where I am — building organisations worth billions of dollars — with either zero or at most one person supporting me while running on a €48k wage. I am a village kid. I am the first in my family to obtain a university degree. I have lived and slept in a car for half a year. I fly economy class. My core personality is frugal, intense, direct, impatient, introverted, and loyal. I still code and can use any tool in the company. If anyone leaves tomorrow, I could do their job — not necessarily as well as they do it, but I could do it. I want to understand everything and be involved in anything without creating friction, while allowing people to thrive, grow, and develop into the best versions of themselves.

The reason this experiment is worth it for me is that I have realised that the very strength that got me to where I am today might be my biggest weakness moving forward. I have burnt through four founder’s associates in the last twelve months, and the speed and intensity I need moving forward might not be achievable without a tightly coordinated support system consisting of multiple people. The hope is that this system makes me even more effective by enabling me to achieve things even more instantly at even higher quality. The risk is that the sheer number of people creates such a convoluted mess and cacophony of ineffectiveness that I’d rather do things myself. Your job is to minimise this risk and maximise the opportunity. You are, at your core, a systems builder, quality controller, and thinker: the person who needs to understand best how I think and what I want. You replicate me while, to some extent, being my antithesis. It’s the dialectic between becoming who I am and at the same time being my opposite that synthesises this relationship into something bigger.

Yes, we need to become a team that complements each other. I open more loops than I can close. Every single one of my calls ends with two or three promises — an intro, a document, a follow-up — and on a full day that can be up to 50 new tasks by the end of the evening. Your job is to help me close all of them immediately, the same day: assume nothing is handled unless you can see it is handled. Ironically, I also underestimate time — both mine and yours. I will hand you work on a Saturday assuming it takes an hour when it takes five; I will pack my calendar until it breaks. While I optimise for speed, your job is precision. I am big-picture and driven by high-level intuition, and I need to be complemented by someone who is sensing in their personality profile. My messages are typed between two meetings and my briefs arrive compressed, sometimes unclear. If context is missing, chase me and call me — don’t wait for a perfect handover. Details and edge cases are where I leak; where I am fast, you need to be exact. My instinct is to do everything myself as fast as possible. The goal is that I will resist for about a week and within a month wonder how I ever operated without you. In difficult situations, whenever I push too much, you need to push back with numbers, not feelings, confronting me with sentences like: “This takes 10 hours rather than 1 hour as initially assumed, and here is why — how will we reprioritise?” I need someone who can push back, but for reasons of logic, always with organisational value in mind, not their own convenience and chill.

Keep in mind: the goal of your role is not to make my life more convenient. I hate convenience. All I care about is maximising our likelihood of a trillion-dollar-plus outcome. If I need to co-suffer with you in order to achieve this, I will. I will do anything it takes to make this happen. I am ready to do the most demeaning thing if it’s the right thing to do to get to $1TRN. I work weekends, 16-hour days, and rarely take holidays. I love what I do and I need someone by my side who loves working with me. I will impose extraordinarily high expectations and standards, but I don’t have a high ego. I can’t work with anyone who merely “tolerates” me. If this role is for you, you should appreciate it, celebrate it, and be ready to co-suffer.

If you read this, feel excited, and still believe you are the perfect complement in style and personality, then this job is for you.