Chief of Staff to the CEO (Execution) – Contract

This contract position sits in the Office of the CEO at Korrus, a human-centric lighting company operating across commercial (Ecosense), consumer (OIO), and intellectual property fronts. The role carries direct visibility into leadership decisions and spans the full business: product development, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and a consumer brand going to market. AI deployment across the organisation is a central part of the mandate.

The successful candidate will report to the CEO and collaborate daily with the CFO and CIO. This suits someone with strong operational range and an unusually fast learning rate, whether fresh from an MBA, early in a banking or consulting career, or an engineer looking to understand how a complex global business actually runs. Occasional travel to Southern California is expected.

• Take direction from leadership and drive initiatives through to completion across all relevant functions.
• Convert a one-line intent into a scoped plan with a clear owner, deadline, and definition of done.
• Run the operating cadence including program status reviews, gate reviews, and commitment tracking, surfacing slippage early.
• Diagnose the root cause of delays directly at the source rather than relaying second-hand explanations.
• Build AI-assisted and agentic workflows to extend what a single operator can manage across the business.
• Prepare analysis and materials used by leadership and the board to make key decisions.

• Two to four years of experience in banking, consulting, private equity, high-growth operations, or engineering; a recent MBA is a strong fit.
• Sufficient range across engineering, finance, operations, and commercial disciplines to hold your own in any of those rooms.
• Genuine fluency with modern AI tools and agentic workflows, with the judgement to assess output quality.
• Comfort reading and working with a P&L and the underlying financial detail.
• The initiative to define a path forward when given a direction, without waiting for step-by-step instruction.
• Willingness to hold leadership accountable to commitments in the room and follow through between meetings.

Korrus is a human-centric lighting company built on more than 500 patents in spectral and circadian technology. It operates three areas: Ecosense, a commercial and architectural lighting business; OIO, a consumer brand bringing circadian lighting into the home; and a broader Human Light Interaction research and IP portfolio. The company runs as a horizontal organisation with AI as a core operational backbone.